The river’s water levels have fallen so far that barge and boat travel has become unsustainable for companies.
Boats and barges are running aground and getting stuck in a sort of traffic jam, resulting in a backup of over 2,000 barges, said the U.S. Coast Guard.
Austin Golding, president of Golding Barge Line, told the Wall Street Journal that lower water levels “puts into question our viability and long term dependability.”
This ain't helping any economic recovery.
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: Nefarious on October 19, 2022, 08:19:20 AM
Interest is up and the stock market's down and you only get mugged if you go downtown...
The words of the prophet Bocephus are coming to fruition. :D
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: Eagler on October 19, 2022, 09:07:52 AM
It's a global drought
Water levels are low in many places..some historically
Tigris and Euphrates rivers are two that have some concerned over there
Our Midwest is becoming a dust bowl
Some of it is mother nature and some of is us trying to control the waterways ..
Yes this will not help any recovery but add to it in several ways imo
Eagler
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: Arlo on October 19, 2022, 09:11:31 AM
or will the rest of the world take blame pushing for continuous war and profit instead of peace
Putin started the war by invading a sovereign neighbor. Putin could end the war tomorrow simply by withdrawing his troops back across the border to Russian territory.
Yeah, it was the rest of the worlds fault they forced Hitler to do what he did. Poor Hitler was merely a victim.
No matter how many decades go by, boot-lickers and their descendants never change.
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: Oldman731 on October 20, 2022, 08:17:58 AM
Anyone who wants peace without Russia completely withdrawing back across the border to Russian territory (pre-2014 boundary) is a Russian boot-licker.
Or should Hitler have been allowed to keep Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France?
Again what are the terms for peace being discussed now?
Couldn't the first draft include that?
As nothing has been discussed it seems no one is interested in anything but a profitable war for a very few regardless what it does to the rest of the globe..
Must be some sort of tough guy patriotic support that we all are expected to blindly follow
I am all for a bullet in putins head but don't see that happening anytime soon..but hey I am a boot licker because I want peace..
Sounds sick to me..like a scare tactic
Eagler
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: CptTrips on October 20, 2022, 09:10:04 AM
Again what are the terms for peace being discussed now?
Peace talks can occur the day after Russia withdraws back across their border.
Then we can begin to discuss if the sanctions are ever going to be lifted. Sanctions should stay in place until a agreement of reparations to the Ukrainian people has been signed. If Putin has enough money for invasions, then he has enough for reparations.
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: bj229r on October 20, 2022, 09:20:55 AM
Eventually everyone is gonna get tired of propping up the Ukes. Their reaction to a mere suggestion by Musk is telling
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: Eagler on October 20, 2022, 09:22:57 AM
Peace talks can occur the day after Russia withdraws back across their border.
Then we can begin to discuss if the sanctions are ever going to be lifted. Sanctions should stay in place until a agreement of reparations to the Ukrainian people has been signed. If Putin has enough money for invasions, then he has enough for reparations.
Or they can be formally drawn up now and used against putin as he would then be the one against peace...
What do I know as I am just a boot licker right?
Back to the OP...I don't think its putins fault we are in a global drought but the war there will make it worse imo
Eagler
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: CptTrips on October 20, 2022, 09:29:11 AM
Their reaction to a mere suggestion by Musk is telling
Musk was suggesting they agree to handing over their sovereign territory to an invader as a reward for their aggression. He should be told to F himself.
If Russia invaded Alaska and he suggested we just let Russia keep it to make peace, would "patriots" in this country go along with that?
Would you?
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: bj229r on October 20, 2022, 09:39:29 AM
That's a brave attitude for the Ukes to have, but they aren't in the driver's seat, and absent Putin's death, Russia isn't gonna just say "my bad, we go home now". Their scenario not dissimilar to the South in 1863
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: CptTrips on October 20, 2022, 09:44:43 AM
Indeed it is. I think brave men willing to fight to protect their homes and families from an aggressor\invader deserve to be supported.
You didn't answer my question though. If Russia invaded Alaska, would you be willing to just hand it over to get a peace treaty? Or would you want to fight to take it back?
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: Arlo on October 20, 2022, 09:45:35 AM
Equating Ukraine to the Confederacy of the U.S. Civil War (and by extension Russia to the Union) is telling where it comes to your perspective here.
It is one I'm more familiar with than many others---they were fighting a good defensive battle against far superior numbers while steadily running out of resources, which is why they were begging England to intercede on their behalf
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: bj229r on October 20, 2022, 10:26:03 AM
Indeed it is. I think brave men willing to fight to protect their homes and families from an aggressor\invader deserve to be supported.
You didn't answer my question though. If Russia invaded Alaska, would you be willing to just hand it over to get a peace treaty? Or would you want to fight to take it back?
We have the resources to win that fight, Ukes are depending on the kindness of others
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: Eagler on October 20, 2022, 10:26:33 AM
I can only assume some of you are willing to go nuclear to "save" Ukraine..
I am willing to go nuclear in proportional response to any use of nuclear weapons by Russia on the European continent.
Same with chemical.
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: Tec on October 20, 2022, 10:34:59 AM
JFC you guys need some fresh air and sunlight. On that note I'm heading out fishing, on the Mississippi River. We're only about 3" low up here and it's come up a couple inches over the past few days. :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: CptTrips on October 20, 2022, 10:36:39 AM
We have the resources to win that fight, Ukes are depending on the kindness of others
Yet they have the resources to fight Russia currently and the moral justification in continuing to do so.
I suspect none of us would do any differently if we were in their shoes. As you are tacitly admitting.
And the ones running out of resources appears to be the Russians. They are sending hundreds of thousands of conscripts to the front with no equipment, food, weapons or ammunition.
Come winter, those poor cattle will be freezing to death by the thousands if they don't just start shooting their officers in the face and work their way back to the Kremlin.
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: Eagler on October 20, 2022, 10:39:19 AM
I am willing to go nuclear in proportional response to any use of nuclear weapons by Russia on the European continent.
Same with chemical.
As long as it all stays over there or are you willing to sacrifice your city, family and friends..
I guarantee that would not go over for the majority here...if they had a say in it
Not sure why some here haven't signed up ...I heatd we are paying over $1000 a day to our ISIS and other terrorist buddies to fight along with the Ukrainian forces...the ole enemy of my enemy is my friend bs
Eagler
Title: Re: Mississippi River going dry
Post by: CptTrips on October 20, 2022, 11:06:44 AM