Mississippi going dry?

[HalfLib4Now]

Im getting ready to move back to the southern Illinois area also,Buying my sisters house..She said the river is the lowest shes ever seen it also.Lets hope this ends soon.

[lonewolf]

It would be interesting if the Mississippi ran dry. I bet the riverbed would be full of interesting things. Maybe even some silver. Old boat parts, civil war stuff, who knows.

[terrabyte]

Having grown up next to the Mississippi way up 'nort', enjoyed it's natural beauty in the 80's. Came back for visits throughout the 90's and couldn't even recognize it. Islands gone, very shallow, and locks/dams/levees everywhere.

Army core of engineers have been messing with the Mississippi for quite some time. What is happening now does not surprise me at all.

[jayjay]

Islands gone, very shallow, and locks/dams/levees everywhere. Army core of engineers have been messing with the Mississippi for quite some time. What is happening now does not surprise me at all.

True dat. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature. Remember 1993.

[adams684]

interesting animation.

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/6_week.gif

greenland is also melting quickly.

any correlation between Fukushima or Chenobyl and droughts?

Good thought,
I was wondering that to

[jayjay]

interesting animation.

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/6_week.gif

greenland is also melting quickly.

any correlation between Fukushima or Chenobyl and droughts?

Not unless nuclear reactor malfunctions can alter the jet stream patterns or control the output of the sun.

[captainsilverton]

we had issues with our nuke plant here in CT,...the CT river water was too high a temp to cool properly... thank God summer long hot days are lessening.

makes ya wonder.

INCT

[Mike Hunt]

we had issues with our nuke plant here in CT,...the CT river water was too high a temp to cool properly... thank God summer long hot days are lessening.

makes ya wonder.

INCT

We've been having the same issue at Dwayne Arnold in Iowa.

[HardlyPeeved]

Minnesota River (Miss tributary) has little if any current, pools are stagnant with algae growing.

This may be a big ecological 'event'...before 2013.

With a depressed economy there is little need or desire or expense to keep the river flowing by trucking water upstream.

Wow....wow.

[Will Wong]

The Euphrates River is supposed to dry up at one point for the Kings of the East to march its army of 200 million hordes to the Promised Land during the last Great War. I always pondered how can that happen. Now, we are seeing the Mississippi drying up.