Mississippi river drying up! 4:50 minutes long.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Not to worry

The river will be a brackish bayou all the way to the Missouri River once all the ice melts and sea level rises.

[2naSalit]

3. +1

[ProfessorGAC]

2. The Son Of A Guy I Know...

...works for a barge company. His dad tells me that the company is running barges single file in parts of the Mississippi. I guess it's normal for them to go 3 or 4 wide in those parts of the river.
There are ships in New Orleans just sitting & waiting to be filled or unloaded.

[Sympthsical]

5. It's a mess

I have a cousin who has a small company that unloads barges in Chicago. It's mainly things like pig iron from South America, scrap, etc. A lot of it just comes up the Mississippi, through the Cal-Sag, etc. It's then loaded onto trucks and shipped over to places like US Steel in Indiana.

It has not been going well.

On the plus side, the St. Laurence has never been busier! So, there's that.

[Sympthsical]

4. Yesterday, my mom asked me to take her on a river cruise

My response was more or less, "So here's the thing . . ."

[Lady Freedom Returns]

6. What river?

Things like that are starting to be nonexistent.

Ya know, I am sad that we can now say "I told you so " to the climate deniers.

[Sympthsical]

7. She wasn't specific

I assume Mississippi because she's in Illinois?

I didn't even know river cruises were a thing until she brought it up.

I remember from childhood those old paddle boat steamship thingies that were invariably called the River Queen. I imagine/hope they're not that.