WATCH: Can The Mighty Mississippi Keep Ships Moving?

Two weeks tops.  Mighty Mississippi at historic lows.

The best efforts of the Army Corps of Engineers may not be enough to keep shipping barges moving beyond late January.

Current Drought Reminiscent of Dust Bowl Days...

PHOTO - U.S. Drought Map

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[S. Gompers]

We in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana have had a lot of rain and snow melt heading down river, we will see...

Mud season has returned to the valley once again.

[TR]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/14-0

"“We all have the same, basic psychological hard wiring,” Wright said. “It makes us quite bad at long-range planning and leads us to cling to irrational delusions when faced with a serious threat."

[Irish spring ivory soap]

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm


1936

February: Los Angeles Police Chief James E. Davis sends 125 policemen to patrol the borders of Arizona and Oregon to keep "undesirables" out. As a result, the American Civil Liberties Union sues the city.

May: The SCS publishes a soil conservation district law, which, if passed by the states, allows farmers to set up their own districts to enforce soil conservation practices for five-year periods. One of the few grassroots organizations set up by the New Deal still in operation, the soil conservation district program recognized that new farming methods needed to be accepted and enforced by the farmers on the land rather than bureaucrats in Washington.