The Mississippi River from Mosquito Park in Burlington, IA. 11/26/2022
She’s not looking so mighty right now with the low water table.
I don’t know it to know whats low, is it just seasonally low?
Bit of an eerie photo
It’s unusually low because due to lack of rain through the end of summer and the fall. There are places where they are having to reroute river traffic because the channels have gotten too shallow.
Just a cold November day.
It has come up some . We had areas on the Missouri section where you could walk to some islands without getting your feet wet in early August.
That’s good to know. I was hearing panic reports that it could take several years to get back to normal levels. Wasn’t sure how much of that to believe though.
These days you can’t even believe your own lying eyes anymore… lol
The preacher man says it’s the end of time And the Mississippi River, she’s a goin’ dry
The interest is up and the stock market’s down And you only get mugged if you go downtown…
Ive heard this before
The End takes a long minute… when it comes. For some it will be a 1000 years… For others a blink of the Eye, and then:
14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Interesting to me that both the earth and the heaven fled away from the face of him that sat on the great white throne.
Current ‘Scientific’ thinking…
That ole man river
He knows some-thin
But don’t do nuthin
He just keeps rollin
He just keep rollin, along…
My paternal grandmother and her maid, used to sing that to me as a baby. Before she passed she still had pictures of bathing me(as an infant) in one of my fathers large dog feeding bowls. So, were those the good ole days?
Enjoy,
Bill
The river down here in La. is very low. Salt water intrusion is beginning to be a problem for towns that draw water from the river for drinking water. Just can’t purify the salt taste out of it. In the late 50’s on bayou Lafourche we would get salt tasting water each winter. On a side not to that, a friend went fishing in the Atchafalaya river a couple of weeks ago. About a mile south of I10 he caught two bull sharks and a sail fin catfish. That’s at least 50 miles from salt water. I know bull sharks adapt to fresh water pretty well, but two a few minutes apart is a bit scary.