Mississippi River reaches historically low levels l ABCNL
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2022
- ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee joins the show from one of the lowest areas of the river to discuss how the drought impacts the climate and commerce.
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"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money"
Or drink oil.
SPOT ON!!!!
You're correct and It's only a matter of time now.
@@ivand5670 A few million years maybe...
@@ffjsb that's what she said
Amazing how costs trickle down, but never profits.
You win the comment section today.
Amen!
If you are a shareholder of a company they do
oil companies have just reported their profits ..it is insane
shell profits 9.1 billion up from 3.2 billion last year
BP 6.2 B up from 2.6 b last year
Exxon 5.48b double what they made last year
this is why oil companies wont drill on their 10,000 leases ....less supply ..more demand.. more the price per barrel...means more profits
@@ultramaga813 temporarily until the next pump N dump scheme commences or insider trading wrecks your gains
What is scary is that this is happening to the Nile the Euphrates, the Mississippi, and rivers all over the world. All the major rivers are drying up.
As was predicted 2000 years ago in the bible. We are living in the End of Days. Who will you serve? Jesus? Or the world?
Bible predicts this in “End Days” specifically Euphrates
@@isaiahgimlewicz8298 no one ever takes into consideration that maybe some evil elite wrote these plans out 2000 years ago and have been waiting for the right time to follow through with their evil plan that is disguised as prophecy coming true?!
Can’t anyone see them spraying the skies??
@@burningbright5039 they spraying the skies because they don't want you to see the angels 🛸 going through and fro
@@dantaereacts2365 that can’t be the reason because they only spray in front of the sun
I find it suspect and sad, that there's a diesel shortage, fertilizer shortage, food shortage, and now a water shortage all at once. Has this EVER happened before? A great time for treasure hunting. I'd be out there looking. I used to stand on the levy at times in Vicksburg. It can get pretty low.
OPEC and Russia are responsible for the first one, due to the deep cuts the Saudis wanted ,the other is due to Russia and Ukraine being invade which are the two biggest grain and fertilizer producers. Everything else is over use of the water system and climate going into bi polar climate change.
Psalms 107:33-36
He changes rivers into deserts, and springs of water into dry, thirsty land. He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there. But he also turns deserts into pools of water, the dry land into springs of water. -- ❤
All man-made and fixable quickly
Fertilizer and diesel shortage could be avoided. Government want us dependent on them
Yeah, go ahead and vote Democrat some more so things can get even worse!
I think an overlooked part of this issue is how so many wetlands have been developed/destroyed, these are so critical to maintaining steady and healthy water flows in our rivers and many of them are not protected under current regulations.
There is no such thing as a stabilized environment. Let's just focus on waterway pollution. That's about the only thing we can feasibly control.
Regulation currently states that destroying a wetlands without building a compatible one of equal size is completely against the law.... Try to get a permit to build on a wetland and let me know what happens.
@@MadTopHat1 Exactly wetlands are definitely protected under current regulations, section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Historic farming practices have contributed to loss of wetlands and the Mississippi River issue, but the main cause is likely still global warming
You're ignoring that there's been drought conditions for years now? That's ultimately the main reason, you know.
@@emilkarenon2503 Not true.
I would be metal detecting the absolute hell out of that river right now if I lived closer.
@Coochie Mane Why not
@Coochie Mane $$$$$$
@Coochie Mane why would you ask that
@Coochie Mane for the same reason we didnt name ourselves Coochie…
Jesus coming
They are leaving out another important fact that most of the upper Mississippi River and Illinois River will be looking at the winter freeze that will close down the locks, that are used to move from one pool to another and are part of the dams in the rivers. This happens because the ice keeps the gates in the locks from moving and can freeze the flow of water in and out of locks.
Yea it gets bad on the upper part of the river. I worked on the upper river for many years, even got stuck a few times. We could get off the boat and walk around on the river.
That happens every season...
@Tons we should all know what's happening their draining the river and selling the water
Upper Mississippi freezes every year. It just depends on how thick the ice is and how long it stays frozen. Be more worried about the Bald Eagle nesting and their ability to fish.
REALLY good reporting folks. Essential. We need leaders to step up with solutions to try. Ideas now!
I live in Minneapolis, just blocks from the Mississippi and the historic Minnehaha Falls. I take a walk at Minnehaha Falls every day. This waterfall has been bone dry for weeks. It’s not a huge tributary, but it’s representative of what’s happening. And unlike other tributaries, this is all urban, not being dammed or used for farming or city water systems - it’s pretty wild.
@Don't Be A Richard It rains like crazy in some places, and it’s a drought in others. “What’s causing it” is climate change.
@@davestagner Hopefully Minnesota warms up. Ginger could help.
@Don't Be A Richard I am curious if it’s the reservoirs and dams upstream of the Mississippi. I live in Montana and the amount of water we had this year was far exceeding the recent past (the YS flood) and all of the water east of the Rockies go to the Mississippi. The upper Mississippi may be fine but the lower isn’t?
It's been raining like crazy last three days. Getting more this weekend. Not worried.
How many blocks away are you from the river? cuz my house is literally 700 ft away from the bed of the Mississippi just over the Levee
It’s scary that people don’t realize how serious things are getting with our climate
One of 3 things will happen. Most likely to least likely 1. We developed carbon sequestration technology and everyone gets to keep doing what we've always done, a few million die. Noone has to admit they were wrong. 2. The problem gets worse, a couple billion people die from famine a few million more to war. Then we acclimate, but life changes for 100's of years as we stabilize the climate. 3. We all agree this is a problem, learn to live with less, until we completely change our combustion based economy, and feed/ pay reparations to the climate refugees.
We should just make it rain🤔
Biblically 🥺
@@josephquinton990 There's no political benefit from that.
🤦 educate yourself.
As this may be a long term drought lasting for several years or more, the freight companies will have to use a new route. The new route for all those goods will have to go through the Great Lakes and Canada. The soy, wheat and other products can be offloaded in Quebec and sent to Europe and other countries on ocean going freighters.
If you haven't noticed this same thing is happening all over the world...
Yes this is scary
Yup England had droughts this summer and almost had to ration water. I live in Wisconsin and it’s 70 degrees in November. This really is our last chance to fix this
@@ericabertagnoli5469
Yeah like people can fix it.
@@wasntme3651 im sure the republicans can fix it /s
@@goldenface8108
It’s a natural occurrence and climate changes. Nobody can change it.
People have no idea how dire this is! The largest river in the world has completely dried up. Rivers are drying up everywhere! Scary times!
Its low its not drying up. Plus winters coming maybe it will get a hurricane
The stupid can't comprehend it, and they refuse to comprehend it. And their words seem to have more weight in society than the words of those who actually dedicate their entire lives to the study of these things.
😂
The Amazon and Nile rivers are larger.
What are the top 5 largest rivers?
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Here is a list of five longest rivers of the world
Nile River: The longest river in the world.
Amazon River: Second longest and the largest by water flow.
Yangtze River: The longest river in Asia.
Mississippi-Missouri.
Yenisei.
@@sylvestertat1078 we must appease the sun Gods.
New Mexico saw record rains this summer... I have a rain gauge that under estimates the rain due to evaporation... it loses a quarter inch every few days... and it totaled 21 inches this summer...probably was more like 23 inches, I've never seen so much rain in New Mexico in 25 years..
The last time this happened was in 1988. Droughts come and droughts go.
@Rob Hicks How afre you doing today? I hope you are doing good
Insane what little bits of history can be found in the exposed riverbed.
Why can't we just pee in the river to fill it back up??
That was fake...FYI.
What it’s like to remove the water in gta v
@@TOMVUTHEPIMP ur moms fake hoe
@@prevaloir5362 cause then it'll be salt water 💦
We’ve known this was coming for decades and we’ve done nothing about it. This is just the beginning.
The beginning of what? The end? We are running out of water right? 70% of this planet is made of water. And water don't disappear. There is the same amount of water that was here millions of years ago. But it seems people don't want to understand that.
@@frankiet7911
I’m talking about climate change. It’s all connected to the changing planet.
@@randyjax09 Climate change constantly. We only need to adapt. As they say in the video, this already happened in 1890. Nothing to fear about. Probably we are too many. in the future they'll do something about it.
Drought and famine is coming
They say “historic” but at the end of the day, they don’t have the numbers or rate of drought from times before recorded history.. they can speculate and use carbon dating but that only gives so much information. News sure love making stories like this yet with all their corporate sponsorships, you’d think they could do more since they are there to “inform” us of the “climate change” that is in constant flux..
As a truck driver, I cross the Mississippi river at least 10 times a month. It's so depressing seeing it in this current state.
All the best, Brandon. It's guys like you that keep America running.
Stay safe out there brother.
@@marktwain368 🙄
Me to. I cross it quite a bit myself. Hate it but its our reality.
Same here
This lesson is one that each American should hear.This educator is 100 percent correct in her assessment.Thank you!
Where are the Americans who keeps on saying that climate change is a hoax? I wanna hug y'all right now.
I live in Greenville Mississippi. LOOOOONG before I was born there was another Greenville that was flooded. Keyword being was. I've seen the buildings for the first time in my life last week. And it's pretty scary I'll admit.
Hey possible family member. My father is from Hollandale and my sister is in Greenville right now,but I never been there,I'm a Chicago dude..
So the sunken town is remerging?
Wow that’s interesting. The Great Flood of 1927 flooded out many Negro Towns during that flood not only Greenville, MS. Most of the Negros refuges from the flood (over 600K), were placed in Red Cross Concentration Camps and worked to death or almost work to death. They lost all of their land and rights during that flood. There is an article written by Yale University titled (“THE RED CROSS IS NOT ALL RIGHT!”
HERBERT HOOVER’S CONCENTRATION CAMP COVER-UP IN THE 1927 MISSISSIPPI FLOOD!!) I would definitely suggest reading this article. There are many towns drowned under many of these man made Lakes in America.
@@dirkdillary4925 I'd to read about that.
@@trainman1209 That’s awesome! It’s definitely worth a read. The crazy thing is if you watch the Amazon Series “The Man in The High Castle” (which is a good show by the way) it has Hoover playing as an asset to the Nazi’s and in real life he was conducting Nazi’s style Concentration Camps in coordination with the Red Cross against the Negros here in America pre Nazi era. Art imitating life!!
This is what happens when your government is only responsible for large corporate interests over the interests of the people and their land. You've only had decades to figure this out.
What do you mean? It’s a drought. Which by default is causing food prices to rise due to the lack of being able to transport crops cheaply. Nothing to do with corporate interests
The US has had a mediocre run at best anyway. It won't be missed.
Idiot. This is happening globally. Goddam idiot
@@blackhawk7r221 herp derp
@@loganalt OH is it a drought? Well it doesn't matter to me if it takes you 20, 40 or 60 years to wake up and realize why you won't ever smell the roses again.
Omg!! Lord Have Mercy! I’ve never seen the Mighty Mississippi like this!! What’s happening to our World?! We are gonna feel the hurt in this!
We are Living in the End Times.
The Book of Revelations.
The Sins of Mankind are too numerous.
Man does not change, for the better.
Famine, Drought, society unrest, political evil. pestilence.
Abortion, homosexuality, mankind seeks after self gratification.
It is a Spiritual Battle, Between God and Satan,
Good and Evil.
The power that be Call it "Climate change"
Man I been saw this when I was trucking from the north to the south.
It's amazing. . . I remember driving from Indianapolis, Indiana to Albuquerque, New Mexico in April of 2019 and the Mississippi has overrun its banks by 2 miles on each side. So to see it dry is incredible.
We got a lot of rain that year. The trees were heavy with fruit and the grass was plentiful. Not as much this year
@@deanmcintyre4334
: Yep, it's only natural for weather patterns to shift.
Our climate has now gone crazy town---we get feast or famine in the amount of water, never a happy medium!
@@edwardmiessner6502 or is it the media is pushing it?
@@edwardmiessner6502 we have never lived in a perfect oasis weather patterns have been going on for decades if not centuries remember the dust bowl did you see people freaking out hollering global warming hell no I would wonder why the cor of engineers didn't do a better job of managing the river flow they could have started at the gulf and held back water all the way up the river
This is a golden opportunity to dredge the bottom of the Mississippi...thus making it deeper in certain areas for ships. The water will come back.
We are seeing things we've never seen or seen in centuries, even river Euphrates. Every country and region is experiencing alarming changes... These are signs of the end times...
'88 was historic dry levels and four years later it was epic flooding...
I live in Montreal, Canada. This Saturday the temp will be over 80F. This is insane hot weater for november, should be around freezing point. Something is wrong here.
yeah, "never on record" has that happened before....say BEFORE we inhabited North America when there were NO records on the books.
@@ftn819907 possible but probably not since before the last ice age
@@edwardmiessner6502 , "probably" is not facts now is it? Fact check that!
@@ZoeX87 took a walk in shorts and t-shirt this afternoon. Flowers are blossoming. This is abnormal for Quebec in november.
As a St. Louis native, I have grown up with the “muddy Mississippi.” Are any agencies taking advantage of the drought to remove the various wrecks from the riverbed? Is there anything that can be done to reduce the “muddy” nature of the riverbed while it is sadly overexposed? I would think that this drought could be an opportunity to clean up the riverbed and maybe increase the river’s clarity.
Would it even be possible without digging all the way down to bedrock? And even if you did that, would the surrounding soil simply start to erode and fall into the now deep river bed (filling it back up with mud but also eroding away the usable land surrounding the river). Is the muddiness even due to the natural soil of the river bed, or is it carried down as silt from the creeks and rivers that feed the Mississippi (and again would therefore be re-muddied after a few years)?
That is the natural way the river is. It’s not supposed to be clear & the “muddy” nature of the river not due to the wreckage or anything that needs to be cleaned up.
nothing needs to be "cleaned up" the Mississippi has been like this for decades
Ebbs & flows.
Droughts & and floods.
The NATURAL cycle of nature.
Quit politicizing weather. None of these “Climate Crisis” predictions since Al Gore have come to fruition.
@@jeffdobski6111 Did you post in the wrong topic or what? Nobody here said anything about climate change.
We are losing the most important rivers in the world... this is REALLY apocalyptic! I hope there's still time to save them while we still can!
Are you going to do a rain dance or something? How do you propose we save them?
I work on the Mississippi River, on it rn.....its ok man lol. We're looking at high water conditions rn, it happens
That civil war belt buckle find was insane
Crazy to think we had floods south of Minnesota at the beginning of this summer. Now it's a drought something doesn't seem like it was managed right.
@@JustinWilliams-ed2ug yep it is terrifying. Drinking water is going to end up being scarce at this rate. Major changes happening quick to our earth.
It's called mother nature and not climate change.i guess whenever it floods y'all will also call it climate change.just because my grass is turning brown because we are having a dry spell over the summer doesn't meant it's due to climate change.i simply water my grass and wait for it to rain and it always does.
Yeah, the entire freaking climate
@@CardShark989 yet people contunue to ignore it
The culprit are dams. Every river in the world is now overly damed. Which blocks the water cycle and kills life on the river downstream.
We should use this opportunity to clean up the River beds to reduce pollution when the rivers water levels come back
Lots of people are saying this is proverbs fulfilling. Euphrates is the same way.
When it comes back we will be extinct you fek…
Water levels won't come back. LOL.
@@NashHinton 💯
Yes! With electric equipment! Best idea yet.
Finally someone talking about this
I live on the eastern seaboard, we got the most rainfall this summer I have ever seen?
Human being take everything for granted until it's gone and sometimes even then we don't learn our lessons
Folks sure keep breeding like there isn't anything wrong. Every child they put on earth now is gonna have a hella life to live.
@@geekfreak618 this. only white people shouldn't breed. blacks, latins and middle easterns should breed. am I rite, sholom?
Not all of us, but all it takes is for the loudest mouth to be like that. And a bunch of idiots follow.
@@geekfreak618 I have considered that in my own life and that is why I only have one son and I am training him for such repercussions if you start training now for the worst you will be at least mentally and physically prepared I would suggest learning to grow your own crops
"Mississipi river cant keep us apart"... i guess there isnt too much love in our hearts
Would a Desalination Plant in close enough proximity to pump water from areas prone to flooding help?
Take advantage while the waters low and install a rail system to ship
This is devastating for all of us.
Muh devistation
@@DudeInOhio85 hope you never starve or go thirsty like so many today, but it really looks like you will at some point.
We're not together dude.
Goofy ahh America
the californians are the problem they spread to other states rather than fixing their own
Its crazy how humans have no idea how to fix this. It will take an entire lifestyle change for humans to bounce back... They will never change in time. Its truly sad.
Almost like nature has naturally changed for 1000's of years out of human control and it still is
I also think it can change with a decent replacement for the conveniences we have.
In my area, we use solar panels for 25% of our energy.
The other sources are a hydroelectric dam (60%) and an incinerator plant (15%).
But I think we could also try look into Hydrogen technology. And geothermal.
As well as Nikola Tesla's idea of Perpetual Energy.
-I can literally see a day where a lot of homes in this country are powered by Hydrogen and Solar together.
Intelligent humans know how to fix this. Unfortunately, they are out-numbered by the mouth breathers who are so easily manipulated by corporate, political, and religious interests.
They're simply not capable, they will never be capable, and that will spell the extinction of Mankind. It's sad and pathetic.
Are you a alien gagan? “Humans”
@@DrumWild Completely agree. Cheers and well live
😎 We need more people to hear this...I don't think it gets enough attention...
Looks great!! I mean Ginger Z!!!
If anyone was wondering about the miles per gallon figures, it is the net ton miles per gallon figure, which is the distance each ton of cargo is moved using one gallon of fuel.
Thank you.
Could you convert to metric? It will help me understand.
@@patrick247two if I did the math correctly, 647 ton-miles per gallon is equivalent to 249.4 metric ton-km per liter
That makes more sense. Another benefit is trucks wear out the road a lot.
No kidding. Thanks.
Just a wee bit misleading...
Right
Here in Australia we experience alot of drought, but we are experiencing triple La Niña. The entire east coast is still being hammered by one record breaking flood after another! Homes, crops and roads destroyed.. I wish we could give you some of our water... best of luck guys.
Stay safe
we dont need your cunty water, probably filled with all kinds of poisonous animals and shoey beer
Yep. That's why North and South America are in droughts. When El Nino arrives, we'll be the ones flooding and y'all will be in a drought. It's completely normal.
@@SonicBoone56 This is not normal at all. People like you are the reason we're in this mess to begin with.
Are there barges backed up this time on the Mississippi River? How many?
it sounds more like a diesel problem more than a water level problem don't get me wrong i know there's a water problem to but what's the water level got to do with cutting back on loads and amount of barges you run if their still loading
Lakes drying up everywhere. I live next to Lake Powell and it's the lowest it's ever been in the 10 years I've lived here.
Why can't we just pee in the river to fill it back up??
Oh damn global warming for sure
I remember just 4 years ago my friend that works on the Mississippi river on a barg. The tug boat could not get under the bridges because of the high water levels.
This is what scientist warn us before, extreme weather changes. too hot and then too cold, in this case, too much rain and then too little rain
@@thevinceberry so scientist said the weather changes......so global warming caused by man must be the issue? No lol global warming is just yet another reach for control by the government. Now are we overpopulated and killing our planet? Yes. How to fix that? Kill off humans.
@@thevinceberry The scientists are paid by the corporations. Keeping you afraid is good for business.
@@thevinceberry ...and when the rains finally do come, again, the bone-dry ground will absorb it all before it can even put a drop into the riverbeds!
@@pezdiablito Because it is not rain which feeds these big rivers lol
It's snow melt runoff
Watch for floods in the spring as record snowfall hits this winter
I was so concerned seeing how low the river had gotten until the shipwreck and relics that were exposed because of it were shown. Now I feel bad that I got excited to see all that history.
Don't feel bad. There's probably a small fortune in relics to be harvested because of the low water.
Too bad we weren't warned of this 40 years ago.
Pfft, I'm nearly 50 and we were warned long before I was born.
@@aick still didn’t do sht. Humans deserve what’s coming
Ok so digging up a few hundred million years' worth of carbon and releasing it back into the atmosphere is bad? Ok let me write that down ok got it.
@@jumbomuffin1316 Whether we deserve it or not, the rest of the species on this planet don't so we should do our best to mitigate the damage.
We were. The oil companies keep covering it up, while corporate, political, and religious interests take advantage of the stupid so they can have a majority.
Humans will be extinct from this. Only then can life on this planet truly thrive.
It looks as if we were Nature's big mistake.
looking at the relics exposed show that the river level has been that low before just they were not monitoring it at that time...
With barge traffic way down, truck traffic should be up. But diesel fuel is almost unavailable.
Looks engineered.
I worked 6 years on the barges and the one trying they aren’t telling you is this …. This is the time that barge outfits are trying to get their equipment out of the upper Mississippi. The river freezes and there wont be any barge traffic until the spring. With lower water levels that means the upper will shut down much sooner than normal. This is going to be a very interesting year.
And with both Ukraine and Russia out of the food gods trade. Things are not looking good for world hunger.
Unload the barges and dry dock them. Let rail and trucks haul it. This would be a boom for smaller companies to haul down river
I live on the west central Illinois/ southern Iowa border by Burlington Iowa and the river looks normal level here. I guess it's because I live close to locks & dam like lock & dam #18..... I'm gonna try to find to some live river cams in other areas & see what it looks like. Right now lock & dam #19 river cam on RUclips in Keokuk Iowa looks like normal water levels with barges going through the locks. Lock & dam #29 is near St.Louis the furthest down stream. So I guess it must be low down stream after the dams.
@@Truckerdaddy Right at a time the Gov-ment is allowing diesel reserves to diminish.
@@petemcintire4339 seems about right
I have a feeling something real bad is yet to come !
Just read the Bible.
Why can't we just pee in the river to fill it back up??
yep ..after the mid terms brings the maga cult to power
@@lancethomas5701 LOL.
@@NashHinton I don’t see what’s funny besides your profile picture
Where you guys at? Mississippi looks normal up here in Wisconsin
I'm pretty sure that hank Williams Jr said the Mississippi River is going dry
I'm excited to hear about ancient findings. But truly sad as well. Get well soon river
Wys
An actual informative news report from ABC. I’m shocked. Thank you. Keep it up
The same things is going on with the Euphrates River?
I’ve been out here for 43 years and I’ve never seen it this bad! I’m thinking it’s time to invest more in our industry out here on the river instead of sending billions to other countries. If we would we would be more independent than relying on others 👍
I live in St Louis County. I went to a park that runs along the Missouri River and I can walk down a pretty big slough because its so low. I only seen it like it once in my 30 odd years I lived here.
Didn’t St. Louis have a huge flood a few months back
What shocks me is some people still deny things are changing!
That's the power of Christianity.
Republican conservatives libertarian mentality denies reality and fact. They will never believe reality .
They said "since 1890". So it happened already, and will happen again.
@@frankiet7911
What are you talking about? The record keeping started in 1890.
Trump having lots of influence contributes more than you're going to admit.
I’m not a global economist, but here’s the thought… electrical companies like Alabama power, golf state, power, TVA, etc. should probably reconsider their stance on solar wind and geothermal energy… I put three solar panels on my roof that was saving me an average of about $15 a month on my bill using a certified grid tie inverter. After about six months electric company discovered I had this system hooked up keeping in mind. I am on Alabama power. I was threatened to have my electricity disconnected. If I did not unplug my system I say that to say this if these companies would encourage people to hook up to alternate power sources putting less strain on the powergenerating Hydro dams… they could then constrict the water flow, allowing water to back up refilling the reservoirs. I’m not a physicist, but it doesn’t take one to realize that if we’re having wetter than normal conditions north of us, then we shouldn’t be having dry conditions or rather reservoirs and rivers drying up in the south sounds to me like there’s a strain on the power grid due to greedy power companies
So where is all this flood water disappearing to? Is this posting well behind the times ?
It's not just the missippi River. It's the Colorado river too. Lake mead is also at a dangerous level of drought
Missississippippi
And all over the world, including Euphrates
@@BeeBlot and the people responsible for wasting our resources are gonna have first class tickets to leave this destroyed planet.
And the Euphrates river too,it's completely dry
Do you think consumption of river water from a expanding population contributed to that ? irrigation , people watering there lawns God forbid you don't have green grass. The Colorado, snake rivers water hasn't made it to the sea Cortez for decades, with the amount of irrigation in California ,and when you try to grow crop's in the middle of a desert want do you expect ? and Sierra Nevada had record snow fall last winter and it still wasn't enough .
I work on the lower part in the NOLA are as a Tankerman PIC. It’s pretty cool how they acknowledged how important this river is to our everyday lives and how crucial it is to keep our country running. The way Tankerman work is we work on call 24/7 and go to whatever facility they call us to. We are the ones who safely load and unload petrochemicals to and from “red flag barges”. The river down here is getting scary low and we are getting scary slow.
As a wheelman I can fully agree.
What is a red flag barge?
@@dj69321 probably a barge with volatile materials
I agree then tell the government to stop drying up the water they're putting it somewhere we have not had any less rain and it has not been hot water does not dissipate when it's 60°, 50°, 70°, none of y'all f****** think about this s***?
Tho river is what made America
@ABC News
I think your math may be a bit off at 2:22. Not sure what kind of truck gets 145 miles per gallon. Please enlighten me
Wasn’t this River just overflowing a while ago? That’s really weird 🤷🏾♀️
Soy is also a component of feed for dairy cattle, as a result the cost of dairy products will also rise.
Water is also a component of feed for dairy cattle.
I’m an American visiting Denmark 🇩🇰 and it’s been really dry up here. And in the high 50’s. Last year it was drizzling rain 24/7 and in the low 40’s. Scary times.
I mean droughts are quite common throughout human history. Humans play a small role in weather and it’s changes. People forget just 10,000 years ago we were in an ice age…. The earth has been warming for thousands upon thousands of years. Global warming is just a coined term used to control and manipulate.
Proof AL Gore's movie is tailored toward idiots. That being said, if the weather chances again I'm going out on the streets and attacking the first SUV in sight
@@Rahim1969 neckbeard
@Swim Fan It honestly was the strangest summer/fall ive experienced in WA state in decades, maybe even my whole life. I mean that 3rd weekend in October where it was 81 degrees I was outside in shorts/tshirt grilling out hoping I wouldnt get a sunburn? Wtf. Tomatoes were growing in the garden. Grass/yard was bone dry because it hadnt rained in months. Black berries are still red and underripe in a lot of places. Like what the hell the more I think about it the more I realize it was the strangest change of seasons ive ever experienced in this state.
Shut up with with your Climate change bs. It's called season change and weather is not scheduled.
how did this happen when the states around the Mississippi River were flooding recently?
Climate change is kinda wierd especially with places like Florida that's experiencing ⛵🌊 Sea level rising and here we have places like the Mississippi and Colorado Rivers in a drought 🧐🤔
there's no food shortage. they're playing us and we deserve it because we're not united.
The Colorado River is also at historic low levels. This river is where a major portion of nation's food comes from.
Mississippi river, one.of the largest and most important river in the US..then on the other side of the world, another large and important and historic river is drying up, the Euphrates..i wonder what's causing this type of extreme low level of water levels..
it does this every few years and everyone flips out but its just changing directions
An inconvenient truth it certainly is.
So very sad that we didn't stop all this from happening. We've had so many WARRNINGS. 👈
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We'll all be killed? Shaddup.
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Its called a weather cycle. A triple la Nina. If you want to know where the water is follow the Jetstream. A third of Pakistan is under water, Australia is having record flooding. The last mega drought happened 1200 years ago. This is nothing new. At one point Death Valley was underwater. Now its a desert. Right now leaves are falling off trees and its getting colder, its called Autumn.
@@robertphillips2142 yes, but triple la Nina's aren't found in normal weather cycles....that's the problem.
What makes water trees?
Australia was extremely dry on the east coast 3 yrs ago and burning and dry dams and rivers, it's since been record floods with the last three years of la nina. Wouldn't surprise me if same happens there.
A repeat of 1993 record floods
When saving the environment becomes a lucrative business the problems will be solved almost overnight.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Thats how capitalism works and it's literally our only hope.
The thing is, when we get to that point, it will be far too late. Can't miss one single dollar at the expense of the world...
You're absolutely correct.
@@davidb3271 Capitalism doesn't solve long term problems if it impacts short term profits.
People are naturally too greedy and selfish to make good decisions for themselves in an unregulated society.
@@davidb3271 I mean it in the sense that it will never happen. There's no money in saving the world.
Everybody remember a couple months back....when Nevada wanted to pipe water from the MS River over to Lake Mead to fill it up. We said no! Then we would be suffering low levels.
Well, we are suffering it now and this is how it would be if that pipeline would have been done.
We were right in saying no. Look how a lack of water is affecting the river commerce. It would have been like this for longer with that pipeline. Keep saying no to that pipeline.
At 0:14 that is Cape Girardeau Missouri Red Star Boat Launch! and at 1:51 Cape Girardeau!
A multi-year drought beginning in late-summer 2020 has led to record low levels in the Mississippi Basin. The Mississippi River stage in Memphis, Tennessee, fell to a record of -10.79 feet on Oct 17[2], below the previous low set in July 1988. As river levels fall, barge operators must reduce the draft, and thus the load of each barge.
I heard they changed the course of the Mississippi once. How'd they do that?
@@trainman1209 if Im remembering correctly, there was a very large earthquake that beifly changed the course.
@@averagejoe9040 in New Madrid actually. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%931812_New_Madrid_earthquakes
@@marktwain368 thank you
Plus river flood controls have basically prevented the river from collecting runoff from flash flooding
I was there last year.
It rained so hard most the time I was there.
How is this possible!?!?
Incredible news
I live in the midwest and it seems like there's another pond drying up every day.
People asked same question during Dust Bowl from 1930-1936. Bigger question seem to be how is it not given earth's history of climate extremes even before man.
@Luminary Harris Correct. Human population was almost extinct two times as well in last 100,000 years alone. It got down to possible extinction levels with under 600 humans on earth during one of those two periods during the particular ice age.
@Luminary Harris A conspiracy where the people in power are executing covert operations to _save_ all mankind? Well THAT'S a new one. It's so unexpected that if my critical thinking ability was just a bit more faulty, I might almost believe that it was true . . .
Big Muddy is being drained.
Wait.. this is now? How am I just hearing about this?!
Great. Prices of everything are going to go up even more.
Wow in my life time I never saw much of Mississippi River that low, thanks Ginger for video, I was complaining to my sister that my backyard in Northern Ohio at end was always floating with water not draining off, Now for months this summer it's all dried up So I told my sister I get my butt in gear and go clean up all dry wood for heat this winter for my wood/coal burner besides splitting wood too, So i can keep natural gas bill to lowest possible.
Did you know the government is gonna try and ban wood stoves..
Not only the Mississippi R., but all the reservoirs on all the rivers that flow into the Mississippi are low too because water was released to try and keep the Mississippi R. navigable.
along with Lake Meade, Lake Powell, Lake Shasta, the Euphrates River in Iraq....fun times are a'comin'!
Just because Mississippi's dry, doesn't mean you call it the R word.
The Mississippi is low all along it’s entire route, to include it’ headwaters. Simple drought.
Where? Not here in St. Louis.
I'm from Texas I've worked cabbage corn and green beans we have been on a decline for a few years it's happening and gonna happen I still see it falling! We need alot of rain!
Great story, but I was also really impressed with the drone shots used by the reporter and her team.
@Eric How are you doing today? I hope you are doing good
All seriousness aside, that drone work is pretty sick. Adds a whole new level to the news.
Just a drone pay attention to the point of the vid lmao
@@Onemorerep03 Chill, bitch. You can pay attention to the topic and notice the camerawork at the same time. Unless you're mentally handicapped
@@jhaz89 you’re the handicapped one for being mesmerized by a drone when the video talks about bigger things
@@Onemorerep03 Did I say I was mesmerized? I simply think it's just a good addition for the news (or footage for any matter) going forward. Who shoved a stick up your ass?
@@Onemorerep03 Did you get raped by a drone?
Don't forget the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers also. It's like the rivers are saying to each other "hold my beer."
A barge can move 647 miles on a gal. of gas? Is that up stream or down stream? A truck can move 145 miles on a gal. of gas? I want that truck because mine won't!!!
Did she just try to claim that a semi truck can go 145 miles on one gallon “of gas” … ?
Also curious to note that they cut the rail graphic out for that efficiency comparison. Sure, barges can carry 16x more, but they still remain BY far the most efficient way to transport freight goods per mile in the US.
Lmao its sad that hardly anyone has said anything about that. People are so brainless and will believe just about anything they see on the news without question. 145 MPG on a truck... Nice. 🤡
There is also no way a barge gets 645 miles per gallon. This is all wrong information. Completely wrong and useless.
I looked up the stat. Its 145 miles per gallon per average ton of cargo. The graphic doesn't do the stat justice, so its misleading. But barges are the more fuel efficient route of the 3, just not time efficient by any means.
Ok glad I wasn't the only one - I looked into it more though and I think she just mispoke - it should be comparing how many "TON-MILES" per gallon of gas, so for a truck carrying 22 tons of freight and getting the average 6.5 mpg, it would factually be moving each ton 145 miles per gallon of gas the truck burns to move all of it. This assumes full weight. It is ALSO true that the barge is more efficient than the trucks per ton-mile when they are both filled up. The report she mentions also says barges move freight more efficiently than rail - but barges still have to use trucks to get to the final destination, whereas many industries are well-plugged into rail networks and overall more efficient - a fact not included in her analysis that was commissioned by the U.S. National Waterways Foundations. I actually respect this producer/reporter team a lot for leaving that very misleading efficiency comparison with rail out of the segment.
I have no financial stake in freight rail or personal/ideologic/family connection with the industry - but I do love efficiency. The full report can be found here: www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/emissions_analysis_of_freight.pdf
Of note, page 38 of the report has a graphic from the analysis that strongly implies that if freight logistics networks prioritized CO2 emission reductions over optimizing time alone, then (45 vs 18hrs)!! If the U.S. ditches the very un-resilient "just in time philosophy" currently permeating industrial logistics and we use data to better optimize our supply chains with good engineering (not "special AI technology advances" just employing more supply chain management engineers) - the U.S. can reduce the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the U.S. (transportation) by 24%. That change is conservative and doesn't include reductions of air-freight - meaning first class/priority mail would still be maintained despite the 80% reductions. Add in last-mile delivery emissions reductions with transition to long-life electric commercial vehicles and we have a really good recipe for hitting national emissions targets. Love this stuff.
@@RobbyBesch thanks Rob, this is fascinating stuff!!
Even IF we were able to cut all CO2 emissions _tomorrow,_ the climate will continue to deteriorate for another 50 years. There’s a long lag effect when it comes to pollutants.
When will people realize we have very little impact on the climate, the changes have been happening since the beginning of time and they will continue long after we are gone.
Great time to do maintenance like dredging, lock repairs, and garbage removal.