As an ongoing drought grips the South and Midwest, the water level of the Mississippi River in Tennessee is standing at close to negative eleven feet, breaking the previous record set in 1988. Senior Vice President for The Waterways Council, Inc., Deb Calhoun, joins News NOW to explain what steps are being taken to keep commerce operating on the Mississippi River and how long record low water levels could last.
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The interest is up and the stock market is down and you're gonna get mugged if you go down town. I live back in the woods you see, the woman, the kids and the dog and me. I gotta shotgun, a rifle and a four wheel drive and a country boy can survive
The Mississippi hasn't been this low since it was created by Lewis and Clark in 1804!
The water level would go back up if you threw politicians in the river.
Secure Climate funds from fraudsters like DeSantis who defrauded Covid funds for migrant flights.
Over 100 American lives taken by Hurricane Ian while 44 Americans are shot by other Americans each day.
Learn from the past, dig flood swales and work with the natural environment.
Mississippi is a goddess
The Colorado River is a muddy creek. The Great Salt Lake and Lake Mead are more like ponds. Alaskan waters are so warm that king and snow crabs have disappeared and fishing has been halted for the season before it began. Glaciers are shrinking. These things are happening today. And STILL there are ignorant people who say it's all a hoax. What will it take to make them believe that climate change is REAL? I can't believe what a horrible legacy we are leaving our grandchildren.
xtians aint prayin hard enough!
Sanitariums are awaiting deniers when the collapse happens.
It isn't a drought. It's wetter now than it will ever be again. We were warned, but we waited too long. These are the consequences. It will get worse. Our children will not be happy with us if they survive.
Gloom, doom and the apocalypse is upon us…yet again. I have heard this for all seven decades I have been on this planet. So did many others for generations before I was a twinkle in my parents' eyes. Funny how the "solution" is always to follow someone else's rules and let them be in charge.
Next your crop will fail .
I saw the river with my own eyes… I almost ran into the median… you can see lost treasure…. The Missouri river next!
Thanks, Melania
HELLO THANK YOU (YOUTUBE)
The world is changing, the climate is changing. I can't fathom the fact that there is drought in other countries, normal climate in other countries and here is our country, experiencing so much rain and washing away houses near rivers and floods in cities. And all is to blame is US people, we caused this. We made this happen. Because of our greed of wanting more of everything, too much of everything. Too bad we can't turn back time☹️
the country needs to figure out how to divert water from all the flooded streets in America to our lakes and rivers. This is a joke and a lack of real oversite.
The WOKE Army Corp of Engineers have diverted , redirected billions of gallons, and this time of year is traditionally low . Its all part of the WOKE propaganda bombardment , its a 24 hour Greta Thunberg, AOC whiney assed lie, There is no oil, food, or any other shortage they are all part of the WOKE AGENDA, THEN ITS AMPLIFIED A TRILLION TIMES BY THE CORRUPT MEDIA SHILLS.
Store Drinking water 🚰. Soon these Rivers will be barren. The Earth 🌎 is fighting back for her mistreatment.
river is not going dry The WOKE leftists in the agencies that control the water flow have deliberately diverted and rerouted the flow through aquaducts , spillways and other measures this is all part of the climate change cult
We takeout coal put ash in ,take outgas putdirty water in we are poisoning mother earth and she is letting mother naturerespond climate change and ground change is needed protect out planets air and surfaces
92% of food exports, CORN and grain for animal feed.
Not food for humans. America's bread basket maybe in the red flyover states, but all your fruits and vegetables come from the San Joaquin Valley.
God may not be judging America but mother earth is ,humans take out of earth good and put garbage in ,and people careless litter the surface with waste we deserve earths judgment
She was sure careful to avoid saying corn and coal.
Rain 🌧️ dance is a racist comment both white ladies just said
In the words of Hank Jr )a country boy will survive) so you all just set up there in your offices or riding your little electric scooters with your “partners” holding on around your waste riding along and we’ll take care of this
So is this caused by climate change?
The weather is cyclical look to the past to see the future.