2019 Mississippi River

[CharlieK]

Man... That is Wild. Are we at the point of inevitability?

We basically have always been there. Just disagreement about how long.

[Ragin4U]

Man... That is Wild. Are we at the point of inevitability?

Sounds like it. I guess it depends on the time scale. Maybe Helmut has a better idea. Scary stuff, though.

[CajunJeaux]

Welp...think I need to go change my shorts after watching that

[angeleast]

Add to the Spector of hurricane season dumping water and this becomes beyond fathom.

[Duckster]

Except for rabbits and young turkey poults, most wildlife will be able to escape although stressed being forced from its habitat.

[Boomer]

Add to the Spector of hurricane season dumping water and this becomes beyond fathom.

........So what aboutAbbeville? Vermilion River? What aboutNO?

[HelmutVII]

Man... That is Wild. Are we at the point of inevitability?

Will it happen, yes. (It's happened before and will happen again)
Will we see it .....I dunno. We almost saw it in 1973.

It certainly would be a sight to see for sure. I would be on the East bank across from Knox Landing to get a good view although you probably won't see too much. If you live on the west bank of the river you might have to take I-20 to get back home. Depending on where you live, you may not have a home to go back to. Probably the best place to see it would be on TV at your home. That is, unless you lived near or in the basin or in Morgan City. Then I would be getting my butt out of there looking for another place to live.

Water is lazy it will seek the line of least resistance. The ORCS spans from mile 311 to 316 on the Mississippi river (That is 311 miles to 316 miles from the mouth of the river at the gulf of Mexico). The Atchafalaya river is a route of about 150 miles to the gulf of Mexico. That is about half the distance which results in twice the slope of the water surface elevation. Let's see now, which one do you think it will take.

The question in my mind is, which one will be first, Yellowstone blowing or the Mississippi river diverting. Both events would be of biblical proportions and would illustrate the folly of man thinking that they have control or influence over any of this crap.

[HelmutVII]

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[HelmutVII]

........So what aboutAbbeville? Vermilion River? What aboutNO?

Abbeville probably ok, Vermilion River, probably ok, New Orleans will be left with no fresh water supply as the Gulf of Mexico will back up into the evacuated channel of what would then be the new old river. The high salt levels of the water will kill most of the vegetation in the area and coastal erosion will accelerate. The oyster fishermen will be happy. The problem would be the only people to sell the oysters to would be on the north shore and Mississippi. New Orleans would be even more unlivable than it is now which would result in a mass migration of people out of the area because of lack of fresh water. Baton Rouge would have a similar problem in that they are already having to fight salt water intrusion due to the high pumping rates of water out of the Baton Rouge aquifer. We will still have LSU A&M football on Saturday nights to look forward to HA HA.

[VObserver]

Will it happen, yes. (It's happened before and will happen again)
Will we see it .....I dunno. We almost saw it in 1973.

It certainly would be a sight to see for sure. I would be on the East bank across from Knox Landing to get a good view although you probably won't see too much. If you live on the west bank of the river you might have to take I-20 to get back home. Depending on where you live you may not have a home to go back to. Probably the best place to see it would be on TV at your home. That is, unless you lived near or in the basin or in Morgan City. Then I would be getting my butt out of there looking for another place to live.

Water is lazy it will seek the line of least resistance. The ORCS spans from mile 311 to 316 on the Mississippi river (That is 311 miles to 316 miles from the mouth of the river at the gulf of Mexico). The Atchafalaya river is a route of about 150 miles to the gulf of Mexico. That is about half the distance which results in twice the slope of the water surface elevation. Let's see now, which one do you think it will take.

The question in my mind is, which one will be first, Yellowstone blowing or the Mississippi river diverting. Both events would be of biblical proportions and would illustrate the folly of man thinking that they have control or influence over any of this crap.

Throw in another 8.0+ quake along the New Madrid Fault, and you have the disaster trifecta for the central US.