benburch
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:22 PM
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Is the Mississippi navigable through to the sea? |
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Or is it shut down?
Has anybody seen estimates of how long barge traffic will be shut?
This is an absolutely essential waterway.
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stevedeshazer
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:25 PM
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1. I've been wondering the same thing. |
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No doubt the humongous rainfall upstream will keep things shut down for a while due to continuing flooding.
So much commerce goes up the Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri that I can't imagine there won't be an economic hit of equally humongous proportion.
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Roland99
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:27 PM
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2. Ports are closed in the lower Mississippi. |
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I would imagine the river itself is navigable, but probably a bit higher water levels.
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spuddonna
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:28 PM
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3. I would bet that it has been blocked by debris... |
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Wonder if the coast guard has info...
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benburch
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:27 PM
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They are preventing traffic to keep the wakes from the levees. I have done some searching and cannot find any order that the river is closed to navigation.
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