Planetizen -Henry Grabar writes about the rising of the Mississippi River and the
threats it poses in southern Louisiana, and particularly to New
Orleans. "America’s wettest 12-month period in recorded history, all
those devastating floods in Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Arkansas … it is
all coming down through New Orleans now, putting the world’s most
ambitious infrastructure of river control to the test."
The river is setting high water records—it is eight feet higher now
than it was at this time last year—and the result has been large amounts
of very fast-moving water, making navigation of vessels dangerous and
travel upstream slow and difficult.
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