35 Burst results for "Mississippi River"
AP News Radio
Flood concerns rise as Mississippi River crests in Iowa city
"The Mississippi River is flooding some communities around it as it swells beyond its banks. Prairie du chien Wisconsin resident Melissa Tyree tells Casey RG TV. She's been dealing with about two to three feet of water in her basement. The water in the basement stain about the same, so we're pumping about the same amount of water out. The Mississippi River has been resting after a giant snowpack in northern Minnesota began melting, moving down the approximately 2300 mile stretch. National weather service meteorologist Alex Gibbs in the quad cities bureau. I think we're looking at top 5 crests right now with this one. So at some sites in our area. I'm Julie Walker.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mississippi river" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Numbers were good. Big, big operating profit. But this market has been dominated by ten. I know, totally. Absolutely. Anyway, let's head down to Washington, D.C. Reagan and Amy Morris. She's got world and national news. All right, thank you, Paul House speaker, Kevin McCarthy is escalating his demands for President Biden to avoid a dead ceiling crisis. He tells Bloomberg's balance of power, the Senate has done nothing since Republicans pass the partisan bill raising the debt ceiling and cutting spending. They haven't done anything on the debt ceiling and the president has ignored this problem. He's actually putting the economy of America in jeopardy. Senate Democrats have declared McCarthy's debt ceiling Bill dead on arrival. President Biden and congressional Democrats oppose the measure because it attaches sweeping spending cuts as a condition for raising the debt ceiling. Mcarthy doubled down on his demands, he says he will not send The White House a clean debt ceiling Bill. A BNSF freight train derailed in southwestern Wisconsin along the eastern edge of the Mississippi River, four people were transported for medical attention two cars went into the water, Crawford county director of emergency management Jim hack, it says there is no public hazard. They are currently and that has to do with the diesel fuel that the engines have and they are trying to recover everything, but there is no hazardous amounts of this time. Local media reports, 20 BNSF railway cars were involved, that investigation is ongoing. There's a new government survey out that shows the effects of the pandemic on teen sex, a 2021 CDC survey finds 30% of teenagers said they had never had sex. That's a drop of 8% from 2019, the steepest decline ever recorded by the survey as COVID forced more teenagers into isolation. Around three decades, 30 years ago, more than half of all teens said they had had sex more than 17,000 students took part in this anonymous nationwide survey, which found fewer teen pregnancies and STDs. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts, this is Bloomberg. Hi, everyone. Al Roker here. As a guy with his own catch phrase, I appreciate that smokey's only said only you can prevent wildfires. But I'm feeling it because there's a lot more to report. Like when they're parched or windy
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Democrats Love to Play the Race Card
"Want you to hear from me that at this moment, people across Tennessee are not lynching black people, we're not riding around in Klan robes, burning crosses, we do not own slaves and there is currently no slave trading ships docked along the Mississippi River in Memphis Tennessee. I just want you to hear that from me. Because if you've been watching any of the media coverage about what's been happening at the Tennessee state capitol, you would actually believe that people are being enslaved in the state of Tennessee, and that is simply not true. Ladies and gentlemen, by now you know that one of the things that really sets me off is when people play the race card. I find that incredibly offensive. And the Democrats know that is the weakness of the Republican Party. When the Republicans are winning the argument, no matter what it is, you could be having a debate right now over whether Yoda is better than baby Yoda and if a Democrat stepped in and said, you're a racist, it ends the conversation. It ends the debate. And so the Democrats know that they can win any argument. It doesn't matter what the arguments about it could be about politics or could be about sports, it could be about entertainment. It really doesn't matter. The Democrats know that all they have to do is accuse you of being a racist and you're going to back off. You're going to back down. Well, I got news for you, folks. We're not backing down on this radio program.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Doug Talks Hunting and Songwriting With Neil Thrasher
"Admit, only if you've watched some video today, the mounts. Where do you hunt mostly now? Oh, gosh, I hunt all over. Let's see. Hang on, let me fix this. Sorry. I hunt here. I've got a farm here. I go down to Louisiana a lot. I got a buddy. It's got an eye on it on a Mississippi River. I went to Illinois this year. I went to a few different places. Getting up with rob and damn it in Illinois, have you? Rob. Rob hatch and Lance Miller? No. Their place up in Illinois. No. I haven't got that invite yet. I'm barely, you know, I hadn't been able to go. It's pretty wild. I got this place up here. It's pretty wild. So hunting from a songwriter perspective. Sitting in the stands, sitting out, you get ideas when you're sitting there. Very rarely. Whenever I go home. Really? I'm like, I've checked out when I go hunting. I'm all about it. Hey, look, once I go through the gate, I leave Nashville behind. I mean, sometimes it happens. And sometimes you'll be sitting there, if it's a lull or whatever and it's and it's peaceful or whatever. I mean, I may, I may go to a go to a song, look up a song on my phone and maybe work on a verse, maybe, but not usually I don't. Usually I maintain with the Woods.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: Has Anyone Addressed the Toxic Cloud Over Ohio?
"Concern is, I don't know whether lap or cry over this whole what's going on in this country. But my concern right now is that cloud over Ohio that's drifting this way and is killing fish in the cattle and everything and I live in western New York almost to the Pennsylvania border and it's coming here. Like what has anyone addressed what it is? No, Cindy. What kind of cloud is it? Yes, so we've got some Intel on that and we'll play this audio in just a moment for you. But nothing official from the government. And again, we haven't heard from fema. We haven't heard from Pete Buttigieg. And by the way, this is his responsibility, and you've got people out there, you've got people out there firsthand accounts of pets of livestock of fish that are dying, Cindy, are they giving you because to your point, that chemical cloud is heading towards New York State, and all our weather comes from the. Are they giving you guys any kind of Intel? Nope, no heads up. Nobody said nothing about it. And no, it's not even on the news Todd. No, it's not everybody is focused on whatever the alien invasion is. Look over here. That's it. That's it. We have not gotten any official reports, but there are concerns that the cloud would be heading in your direction and also for the folks that get their drinking water from some of these rivers, you better pay attention because that water that contaminated water will eventually flow into places like the Mississippi River. Exactly, the water thing too, that somebody mentioned that is like, oh my God. But anyway,
AP News Radio
Coast Guard rescues man overboard on Carnival cruise
"A cruise ship passenger who was missing for hours is found alive in the Gulf of Mexico. The coast guard says the 28 year old man was last seen Wednesday night and was rescued on Thanksgiving night. Carnival cruise line says the man was with his sister at a bar on the carnival valor at 11 p.m. Wednesday. He went to use the bathroom and never returned. His sister reported a missing the next day. A cargo ship saw a person in the water about 20 miles south of Southwest pass Louisiana and the mouth of the Mississippi River after the man was hoisted into a helicopter at about 8 30 Thursday night. He confirmed he was the missing cruise ship passenger. He was taken for medical care. The coast guard calls the rescue, a miracle. I'm
Climate Cast
"mississippi river" Discussed on Climate Cast
"Climate cast is supported by Bank of America. Financing clean energy initiatives and advancements in renewable energy and spurring innovation in the growth of environmentally focused companies, markets, and jobs. Bank of America NA, member FDIC. He is energy and when he goes into the climate system, it's going to increase extremes on both ends of the spectrum. The Mississippi River reached record low levels in the southern U.S. this fall. And that's caused big problems for the 60% of the U.S. grain harvest that's typically shipped down America's largest river. Climate expert Jeff masters wrote about this for Yale climate communications. And he joins me now to talk about it. Hey Jeff, welcome back to climate cast. Hey there, Paul. So about 82% of the contiguous United States is now either abnormally dry or in drought recently. That's the largest drought coverage I've seen since the U.S. drought monitor began in January 2000. What are some of the biggest specific drought impacts you're watching? Certainly shipping has majorly impacted on the Mississippi River, it's reached record low levels at about a 150 mile stretch from St. Louis down and that's caused disruptions to barge traffic and also the drought, of course, is causing problems with agriculture. The national weather service is estimating over 9 $1 billion in losses so far this year from drought, mostly due to agriculture, but also due to shipping concerns. Let's talk about some of the climate ties here. How much of this persistent drop pattern in the western and central U.S. is cyclical? How much is la Nina? And what are the climate change fingerprints here? Drought occurs naturally, of course, and when droughts do occur nowadays, we're in a hotter climate, so that means that your drought is going to be more intense. So you can ascribe a certain percentage of the intensity of this drought and the longevity due to climate change. We don't have an exact number there, but probably 20, 30% of this drought you can attribute to climate change. Jeff, you watch a lot of climate signals around the world and around the U.S., what's your take on what people should be looking for when they try to connect extreme weather events and climate that we're seeing unfold these days? People have to understand that heat is energy. And when he goes into the climate system, it's going to increase extremes on both ends of the spectrum. When you don't happen to get rain bearing low pressure systems moving through your area, the drought that occurs is going to be more intense because the hotter temperatures dry out vegetation more. But when you do happen to be on a storm track that gives you a lot of precipitation, those storms are going to be more intense and drop more rainfall because a hotter ocean will have more water vapor evaporating off of it, giving you more intense rainfall. And our cities are farms are built under sort of this previous set of climate assumptions, what does that do in terms of stress to our systems as this new climate unfolds? It's a huge problem because not just our farms are designed for the old climate. Our entire infrastructure, the transportation infrastructure, our cities that are built by the coast are designed for our 20th century climate. So we're having a lot of impacts all at once hitting multiple sectors of the economy and there's simply not enough money to go around to deal with all the expenses that are happening. So we really need to redesign our entire civilization for a new climate. It's just not going to work to try and pretend that the climate of the 20th century is still here. Jeff masters, who among other things, writes for Yale climate connections. Thanks for making us smarter about drought and climate.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mississippi river" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Mississippi River. Water. I'm joined by captain E Michael bakke is the president of the Crescent river port pilot association and he is on the line from Metairie Louisiana. What are you experiencing? What are you seeing when you are on the water? Well, from the river pilots standpoint. And the lower part of the Mississippi River where we handle all foreign deep draft vessels. And when you say a deep draft vessel, exactly what is that for people who aren't familiar, kind of like me. So shipping a ship, a vessel, whether it's a cruise ship or a tanker, a deep draft vessel is the distance between the water and the bottom of the ship. The only place you can go in a deep draft vessel is from the sea buoy and the Gulf of Mexico and southwest paths. It starts to get more shallow So as far as the effect on the deep draft that's below that rouge, we're not physically affected. It's not physically affecting our depth. We're not bumping the bottom of anything like that. The effect is above Baton Rouge and in the northern part of the country where the bargers are losing water level and the barges are not getting down here. And because of that bottleneck up above, it's slowing everything down when those barges would usually come your way. Yeah, so what happens specifically in bulk like corn, soybeans, rice, it is grown
WABE 90.1 FM
"mississippi river" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"The U.S. Army Corps of engineers. He's looking out at the low river from a top the levee at corps headquarters, the river gage here registers just three feet above sea level. This tells the river's low, it's an approach in some historical lows that we've had here. More than a third of The Rain in the U.S. ends up in the Mississippi River system, Joan says with little or no rainfall coming from the Midwest, there's not enough flow by the time the river reaches south Louisiana to keep the Gulf of Mexico from creeping in. That changes the point at which the river and sea meet. As the flows and Mississippi drop, the Gulf of Mexico essentially comes upstream. A saltwater wedge has crept along the river bottom nearly 64 miles upriver from the mouth of the Mississippi. It's almost like a triangle as this flow and Mississippi River drops. It loses its ability to keep salt water at bay. The saltwater intrusion is threatening both municipal drinking water supplies in the New Orleans metro area, as well as commercial water users, like oil refineries that depend on fresh water from the Mississippi. The biggest impact so far is in plaquemines parish. The gulf is winning. Beni Russell is a councilman in plaquemines, perished with about 24,000 people, and water dependent industries south of New Orleans. A former parish president, Rousseau has been through this before and is trying to keep a positive outlook. It looks pretty good if you want to catch salt fish. You can catch red fish pretty well north now in some flounder pretty well enough. It's good for fishing, but it's not very good for drinking water. Salt water has already compromised two of the parishes water treatment plants, and is threatening a third, Rousseau says local officials are trying to adapt to the crisis. We're bringing in some desalinization units to hook up to the plant to be able to take the salt out and manufacture water in those areas. To say plaquemines biggest plant and protect the larger Orleans parish water system, the core of engineers is trying to block the salt water from encroaching farther, says emergency manager heath Jones. We are building lack of a better term on underwater levy. A contractor pumps
AP News Radio
Barges grounded by low water halt Mississippi River traffic
"Mississippi River I'm Lisa dwyer The unusually low water level in the lower Mississippi River is causing barges to get stuck in mud and sand disrupting river travel for shippers recreational boaters and even passengers on a cruise line The U.S. coast guard says at least 8 groundings of barges have been reported in the past week despite low water restrictions are barge loads The national weather service says nearly all of the Mississippi River basin from Minnesota through Louisiana has seen below normal rainfall over the past 30 days pushing water levels to record lows and its bad timing barges are usually busy this time of year carrying
WNYC 93.9 FM
"mississippi river" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"System for a changing world. It's morning edition from NPR news. I'm Steven skeep. And I'm Rachel Martin. Doctor Meg Autry is a Professor of obstetrics, gynecology and gynecologic surgery at the University of California San Francisco. She also runs a nonprofit. It is called prowess and it's raising money to buy and retrofit a boat. The plan is for a reproductive health clinic on a vessel that provides care in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. This all started long before the reversal of roe V wade. I thought about the legalities of providing reproductive healthcare on the water for a long time and originally was kind of looking at the Mississippi River because I grew up in the south and I was just familiar with the casino boats and I was like, oh, there must be something about the river or the water that makes there's a difference legally from the water and the land. And so as reproductive health rights have been eroded in our country doing something that would provide legal access for our patients who are in states where their rights and bodily autonomy is restricted, came to the forefront. And so I gathered a legal team and we looked at the Mississippi River and decided that that probably wouldn't be the best option. We looked at the Gulf of Mexico and we believe that offering reproductive health services in the Gulf of Mexico is legally okay. First of all, just to clarify, this is not something you dreamed up right after the Dobbs decision came down. You've been working on this for a while. Oh, years. Because you sort of saw the trendlines. Right. We knew this decision was coming down, right? And so our plan was to be ready to go public when the decision came down. When and if the decision came down. And then, yeah, and then it happened and we're like, we got to go. So that's where we are. So where are you in the planning phase at this point? I mean, you don't have boats on the water doing this right now. We don't know. We need funding to acquire a vessel. Okay, so you mentioned the legal hurdles. Have you worked through all those? I don't think you can ever work through all the legal hurdles, right? I mean, you see the keeping up with what's happening in restrictive states right now. It's a full-time job. It feels like it's changing by the minute, but we believe in our team and we believe that we are secure in our understanding of the law, but we believe that there will be legal challenges along the way all the time. Let's just talk about how this actually works logistically. How far off the coast are we talking about? I mean, these are Gulf states, right? So there's a swath of federal waters in the gulf. And the distance from the coastline depends on the state. But it's somewhere between three and 12 miles off of land. So say you're a person who wants an abortion, how does that person get to you and your doctors and staff on the boat? So there's currently a lot of networks in place, right? That are trying to coordinate care for patients who can't get care in their own state. And we would anticipate being part of those networks. Can you say more I understand this is on the planning phase, but it's just going to be word of mouth. It's also security issues, right? Security issues. Okay. I'm not going to be transparent in some of it because we're not willing to reveal that information. Right, because there would be obvious concerns about whether or not the person seeking the abortion could be prosecuted or shot, right? I mean, the dangers of accessing care or providing care in those states are real. And so security is, along with legal, is our number one concern. I mean, I think this is my life's work and it is not okay for people to not have bodily autonomy and the people in these states that are that are losing their rights are poor people and people of color and marginalized communities and as a reproductive health provider, I feel like we have to be innovative and creative in order to allow these patients to get the care that they deserve. How long would you spend on the ship itself? What would the rotations be like, presumably? That's how it would work? I mean, a lot depends on what size vessel we get, right? We know the size below which we can not go, but depending on our funding, you know, we can go larger. So, you know, it depends there are union rules in terms of crew and rest and fuel issues, et cetera. So it just depends on the size vessel that we get. And then obviously that will shape and determine how many procedures you can actually do. Right. So again, I want to emphasize it's a reproductive health clinic. So what we will be providing surgical terminations will also be providing contraception, point of care testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. Hopefully vaccinations, but we estimate that we could provide for about 20 patients a day, which would be about 1800 patients in 6 months. What's the response been to your plan? I mean, from reproductive justice groups along the Gulf Coast from donors. Yeah. The response has been amazing. It's almost overwhelming. It's been from money, but also for volunteer services. The legal and medical community has been
WNYC 93.9 FM
"mississippi river" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"And the struggle for civil rights is ablaze And Mecca and Nina are in the middle of it Nina becomes friends with playwright Lorraine hansberry Lorraine teaches her what it means to be black The joy the struggle the movement and her role as an artist in it all Meg is life is constantly under threat but he won't stop Sit ins boycotts speeches But on June 12th 1963 just a bit after midnight Medgar is walking to his front door and a gunshot rings out Hit in the back medgar Wally Evers son of Mississippi Veteran of World War II Tireless advocate of civil rights dies less than an hour later Three months later in Alabama four little black girls are killed in a church bombing Nina Simone is heartbroken All the ideas Lorraine hansbury has seated begin to bear fruit and she writes her first protest song It flows out of her like the mighty Mississippi River It's righteous anger demands to be heard She thinks about medgar and those four little girls as she takes the stage this time in Carnegie Hall She sits at the piano and says the name of this tune is Mississippi goddamn And I mean every word Alabama's got me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest and everybody knows about things everybody knows about all of them everybody knows about medicine because This is revealed serial investigation Mississippi goddamn to ballot a Billy Joe Episode 7 reasonable doubts Over the last 6 episodes we've tried to understand what happened to Billy Joe in an effort to.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Kyle Rittenhouse Is Exactly the Kind of Enemy the Left Wants to Create
"If you show up to a rally or you show up to a city burning while the National Guard is not there and the police have been told to stand down and you defend yourself because someone's trying to kill you and that someone trying to kill you is a child rapist? You're gonna get tried for first degree murder in your family has to go into debt to try to defend you, which we're seeing right now with Kyle rittenhouse. And by the way, if this was 1892, and it was the KKK trying to take over a city, and it was a black 17 year old that took a gun to go to the burning city. We would have like a national holiday to that young man. Seriously. Not saying that's what we need for Kyle, not saying we'd like a national holiday, but I'm saying that it would be everyone would say this is the most amazing heroic thing I've ever seen. But instead, let's just be let's just be as blunt and honest about it. Kyle rittenhouse tracks a box of the type of let's say enemy they want to create. And we saw this earlier with what happened with the Nicolas Sandman case. You guys remember that the Covington kids? Remember the Covington kids? Where Nicholas Sandman on the steps of the capitol with that lunatic came up with the drum and started banging it in his head, and his head was his face, and we were told that the young kid was the one that's provoking and saying racist things, total lie. Totally exonerated one his lawsuits. But no, the thing that Kyle rittenhouse did wrong is that he fit the perfect type of archetype where Joe Biden came out and said that Kyle rittenhouse is a white supremacist. Said that on Twitter, hope he gets sued for that one day in civil court. There is no evidence of that. But instead, here is the essence of it is that there was a picture, the same thing that happened on the southern border when you had border patrol agents on horseback, and they said, oh, they're using whips to go after migrants, total lie, it's called a bridle or saddle. You ever ride a horse before New York Times weirdo, right? And of course not. Never even west of the Mississippi River, let alone ever mounted a horse, right? No, it's a whip. No, but all they have is the narrative. So Kyle rittenhouse, they had the picture they wanted. AR-15, mouth wide open, young, white, Trump loving, a green shirt and hat backwards, looking like he's kind of playing the insurrectionist. Boom. Put him in
News Radio 920 AM
"mississippi river" Discussed on News Radio 920 AM
"It's not just wider. It's a hell of a lot wider. In the Mississippi River. I don't think so. I don't think so. If you look that up the Mississippi River at its widest point is 11 Miles, So I guess if if the Delaware River is a hell of a lot wider, it must be about 30 Miles wide. It's about 11 Miles, narrower, 600 ft at its widest point. Oh, Okay. And how he, by the way, One of the Grandi Newman have a song about the river. Bun. No Big River. No. Is that about the Delaware River? The Mississippi River? Oh, no. The Chiyoda River and Kaya Hoga River in Cleveland. By the way, I don't know if this is true, but one of my colors earlier today said that one Biden was making a speech in Louisiana. He actually said that no one was going to be left behind which, if that is true. Fact. Check me, Daniel. Dale. I don't know that from Washington yesterday. He did. So it wasn't today. No, but it was yesterday of the people in Louisiana. That's a pretty if I'm in Louisiana. I'm thinking. Oh, gosh, That's not you would not have confidence in those words. Why would you believe those words? Now you wouldn't obviously also how we I I do want to mention here. That there's another story about New York Council to probe Mayor Bill de Blasio mth for their unpreparedness for storm, The City Council will hold an oversight hearing on September 14th two Probe Y Mayor Bill de Blasio and the M to were caught flat footed. I just Can I get to the root cause of this right now? Donald Trump. Yeah. I think the city Council will find that why Mayor Bill de Blasio and the M to were caught flat footed is because They are Mayor Bill de Blasio and the to And it's kind of a self fulfilling thing. I think Cuomo used to have some kind of power over the M T A. But I guess it's kind of a moot point to go after him at this at this Juncture. Yes, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said. We know climate change is an unavoidable fact. Oh, of course it is. Is there anything climate change? Can't do. It's kind of like Donald Trump or doughnuts. I don't know why they're all talking about climate change. How we because you know, at one point we're talking about coronavirus. Now we're talking about Delta. At one point. We're talking about climate change. Now we should be talking about Crime, A change No crop crime. ACL, Isis, the crime and crisis. Right. This is, um er minder. Of the dangers of Crime of crisis. And how we must We? We must better must do something or other. I can't remember exactly that. How that one works. All right. I'll be back a little bit later. Howie for police blotter Facts Friday. Thank you. Grace, never in the history of real estate have government issued moratoriums against property owners been so widespread. Don't wait for.
Science Friday
"mississippi river" Discussed on Science Friday
"Make a big difference to choice. Ter- and water levels are shifting in louisiana because they're in wake like hurricane alley. They actually getting tons of of freshwater and then there's also the mississippi river right there which is just dumping huge amounts of freshwater into the esta and where the live louisiana trying to deal with their subsidence issues. One of the things they're going to do is divert more water out of the mississippi and so it's like climate change and also like human alterations the environment. We're actually physically going to be putting more freshwater on these choicers which is also really stressful for them. How tighter range does the salinity. Need to be in for an hour to do. Well what are the boundaries. They're actually at least there's really really good at handling a really wide breakfast. Rennie's you can find him and full strength seawater which has around thirty. Five p p. t. and then also three which is pretty close to like freshwater and they can handle all of this wendy's this does that they can't handle it for very long so honest there in the three. Pp for more than a few weeks or so then. It starts getting like pretty stressful for them. And then it's a little different for the library or they're really odd juvenile oysters. Because they don't have as much capability of dealing with that really lows twenty water for as long as the adult is so you were looking at sort of how to get oysters to be more resilient to some of these changes that we were talking about. I'm going to start by saying that. I know next to nothing about oyster reproduction in the wild. How does it happen. Oysters are kinda like found all and late groups together and so usually it's like during the summer months when it starts to get a bit warmer and then one oyster decide..
NEWS 88.7
"mississippi river" Discussed on NEWS 88.7
"Are cleaning up and trying to put the put their lives back together. Now when Gulf Coast residents decide not to evacuate ahead of a big storm. They then asked themselves. Where do I want to write it out? NPR's John Burnett has the story of one family that found safety in an unlikely structure. When the banner family sought shelter from the storm. They looked for the sturdiest building in the tiny community of Wallace, Louisiana, So they decided to ride out Ida in the big house on the Whitney Plantation. Oh, wow. It's just unbelievably twin Sisters, Joy and Joe walk through the grounds strewn with toppled trees, building material and broken limbs. Those trees were snapped. It's on everything looks so different. The banners are black. They've lived on this rich alluvial soil beside the Mississippi River for generations, and they say they're enslaved. Ancestors helped construct this Creole plant in house 230 years ago for a German planner and slave owner named John Djaq Heidel. As it happens, it was to this handsome white column demands that the banner actors and their parents, Herriot and William Flit last Sunday and just being back here and going through the experience of being in a hurricane in that house, and then literally, I mean, that was a place of refuge. This really made me appreciate the skills, the craftsmanship of the unsaved people. They were not able to have this kind. The hurricane would hit them. Whitney Plantation is not like the other historic plantations located along the famed River road that winds along the Mississippi, this acclaimed plantation museum was the first in America dedicated to the telling of the slave experience. Joy Banner, who lives a mile and a half away is communications director here. She unlocks the padlock and lets us into the dining room, which is furnished with elegant table settings from that era. This is where we were for $17. At one point, the wailing winds stopped and they saw the sun again and they thought the storm was over. But when the winds picked up again, they hurried back to the big house. The eye of Hurricane Ida was passing directly over the Whitney, but they were safe. You can feel that this is pretty You know, thick plaster on brick that is used for the construction of the bottom portion of the house, which is where we stayed. Look at these walls. There are more than a foot thick and this is built in 17 91. It's seeing hurricanes before it seemed Betsy. It's seen, um now it's seen Ida her sister Jo, so ironic to run to the big house. You know, I never imagined as a descendant of.
Gadget Lab Podcast
Ida Aftermath: Power Outages in Louisiana, Mississippi Persist
"A more immediate crisis unfolding in louisiana and parts of mississippi lily before we talk about bringing power back to new orleans. Tell us what happened. So in the situation with hurricane ida what i've heard repeatedly is just that the winds were really strong instantly. You know hurricane katrina comes to everyone's minds and in this case the levees flood gates pumps the all the systems that you know. The federal government and louisiana have spent billions on over the past sixteen years Those were very successful at keeping the water out of new orleans and in the city itself. There wasn't that sort of mass flooding issue but the winds in hurricane ida were noticeably. Very strong and they caused a lot of electrical infrastructure issues This massive tower that holds crucial transmission lines that survived katrina. Actually and sort of memorably was still standing after hurricane katrina. That tower collapsed during ida Sending equipment into the mississippi river in fact all eight of the major transmission lines into the city of new orleans. are down because of various issues that crews are still trying to figure out right. You know right now. And all of that is sort of combining to produce this mass blackout
Gadget Lab Podcast
Ida Aftermath: Power Outages in Louisiana, Mississippi Persist
"Today. We're talking about the power outage in new orleans earlier this week. Hurricane ida swept through parts of the southern us leaving widespread destruction in its path also knocked out power across louisiana leaving over a million customers in the dark and the city of new orleans was especially hard hit now. Officials are saying it could take weeks for the power to be turned back on so today. We're talking all about power in the second half of the show. We're gonna talk about another dire potential problem. We'll talk about threats to our communications infrastructure from solar storms but first there's a more immediate crisis unfolding in louisiana and parts of mississippi lily before we talk about bringing power back to new orleans. Tell us what happened. So in the situation with hurricane ida what i've heard repeatedly is just that the winds were really strong instantly. You know hurricane katrina comes to everyone's minds and in this case the levees flood gates pumps the all the systems that you know. The federal government and louisiana have spent billions on over the past sixteen years Those were very successful at keeping the water out of new orleans and in the city itself. There wasn't that sort of mass flooding issue but the winds in hurricane ida were noticeably. Very strong and they caused a lot of electrical infrastructure issues This massive tower that holds crucial transmission lines that survived katrina. Actually and sort of memorably was still standing after hurricane katrina. That tower collapsed during ida Sending equipment into the mississippi river in fact all eight of the major transmission lines into the city of new orleans. are down because of various issues that crews are still trying to figure out right. You know right now. And all of that is sort of combining to produce this mass blackout situation.
AP News Radio
Coast Guard Investigating Reports of Oil Spills After Ida
"The Coast Guard is investigating reports of possible oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from hurricane ida the Associated Press first reported the possible spills after reviewing the aerial images taken by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration they show a miles long black and brown slick floating near a large rig with the name enterprise offshore drilling painted on its helipad the company says its enterprise two oh five Rick was safely secured and evacuated prior to the storm's arrival and did not suffer any damage in the storm but the Coast Guard is dispatching aircraft to investigate reports of a slick south of port for shown Louisiana the Coast Guard spokesman says aircraft will also fly over major oil refinery along the Mississippi River south of New Orleans after a report of a rainbow colored sheen in the flood waters there Ben Thomas Washington
The World and Everything In It
Ida Slams Louisiana's Coastline, Leaving a Path of Destruction
"Storm that was hurricane ida is spinning into northern alabama and eastern tennessee. Today it's still packing heavy rain and thirty mile per hour winds. The storm is already carved a path of destruction from the louisiana coast through northern mississippi. President biden said monday that the federal government will help. Anyway it can. We've got a million people in louisiana without power and for time. I caused the mississippi river to literally changes direction and some folks are still dealing with the storm. Surge and flash flooding rescuers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters on monday that as residents living in a maze of rivers and by us along louisiana's gulf coast retreated desperately to their addicts or roofs. The storm is blamed for at least two deaths of motorists who drowned in new orleans and a person by a falling tree outside about an rouge new orleans. Mayor latoya cantrell said the good news. Is that her cities. Levy system passed a major test case scenario. It did not happen. We did not have another katrina. And that's something again. We should all be grateful for however the impact is absolutely significant. She said the city and the state are only beginning to survey the destruction. The damage to the power grid was so extensive. That officials warned. It could be weeks before it's repaired.
The World and Everything In It
Hurricane Ida Headed toward Alabama and Tennessee
"The storm that was hurricane ida is spinning into northern alabama and eastern tennessee. Today it's still packing heavy rain and thirty mile per hour winds. The storm is already carved a path of destruction from the louisiana coast through northern mississippi. President biden said monday that the federal government will help. Anyway it can. We've got a million people in louisiana without power and for time. I caused the mississippi river to literally changes direction and some folks are still dealing with the storm. Surge and flash flooding rescuers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters on monday that as residents living in a maze of rivers and by us along louisiana's gulf coast retreated desperately to their addicts or roofs.
AP 24 Hour News
Biden Vows to Support Louisiana, Mississippi With Hurricane Aid
"Biden says Help is on the way for people in the path of Ida people. Louisiana and Mississippi resilient idea is now a tropical storm as a hurricane that caused a lot of damage in Louisiana energy calls damage to its power grid Catastrophic a giant tower that helps carry key overhead transmission lines over the Mississippi River to the New Orleans area. That was Stood. The force of Hurricane Katrina was destroyed by IDA. That's according to the local power company Energy. As of Monday morning, there were more than 888,000 power outages in Louisiana. Here's the governor John Bel Edwards. We're gonna get through this together. Going to restore electricity just as soon as we can, and it may be awhile. Energy, says quote It would be premature to speculate at this time when power will be restored. Given the extent of the
The Young Turks
Entergy Says 2,000 Miles of High-Voltage Lines Knocked Out by Hurricane Ida
"Well let's talk about hurricane. Ida hurricane ida has devastated parts of louisiana and further compounded the ongoing corona virus surge now more than one million people in louisiana and mississippi including all of new orleans were left without power as either one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the united states mainland Push through on sunday and early. Monday before weakening to a tropical storm So far the number of people who have died as a result of this hurricane is is pretty low. But i just want to warn everyone that the death toll is likely to increase in coming days because there are still people who need to be rescued. As a result of the flooding people are stranded in their addicts or on the roofs of their homes So as of now There have been a total of two fatalities the hurricane twisted and collapsed giant tower that carries key transmission lines over the mississippi river to the new orleans area causing widespread outages And enter g The local authorities said And local said so. The power company said that more than two thousand miles of transmission lines were out of service along with two hundred sixteen substations almost appears as though Maybe the You know energy companies and the utility company should really reconsider the way. Their infrastructure is built especially with these types of hurricanes and extreme weather conditions happening more and more often Maybe you should be underground instead of above ground and maybe we can prevent power outages from happening in the first place Every time that there's a storm like
AP News Radio
All of New Orleans Loses Power After 'Catastrophic Transmission Damage'
"Energy which supplies power to Louisiana along with other states cause damage to its power grid catastrophic a giant tower that helps carry key overhead transmission lines over the Mississippi River to the New Orleans area that was still with the force of hurricane Katrina was destroyed by ida that's according to the local power company energy as of Monday morning there were more than eight hundred and eighty eight thousand power outages in Louisiana here's the governor John bel Edwards we're gonna get through this together we're going to restore electricity just as soon as we can and it may be awhile energy says quote it would be premature to speculate at this time when power will be restored given the extent of the damage I'm showing up later
POLITICO Playbook Audio Briefing
Hurricane Ida Slams Louisiana as An "Extremely Dangerous" Storm
"Slamming into louisiana's coast as a category for storm deadly hurricane ida severed power to new orleans and endangered millions of people with howling winds and storm surge that partially reversed the flow of the mississippi river. There hurricane was blamed for at least one death according to usa today.
Up First
"mississippi river" Discussed on Up First
"On hurricane ida has left virtually all of new orleans without electricity louisiana's governor has urged people. Stay where they are as recovery begins. How bad is the damage. I'm newell king with a martinez and this is up. I from npr news tomorrow. Is the us deadline to leave afghanistan this morning. The us intercepted rockets fired toward the airport in kabul. What does this mean for people who will not get out in time. Also president biden paid his respects to the thirteen american service members killed in that attack shortly before the ceremony. The us launched another drone strike against suspected isis members. How is the president responding to the widespread criticism over his handling of the afghanistan and exit. Stay with us. We'll give you the news. You need to start your day. this message comes from. Npr sponsor via the comfort company. Sada luxury mattresses are sold online and priced at about fifty percent less than mattress stores visit. S double a tv dot com slash npr today and save an additional two hundred dollars support for this npr podcast and the following message come from our sponsor acoustic an independent marketing cloud. That believes customer. Trust is the most valuable currency. Today's business environment learn more about the company's own commitments to data ethics principles. And how these principles can help your business thrive at acoustic dot. Com item has weakened into a tropical storm as it moves up louisiana and into mississippi. What it has left behind though is devastating. Although at this moment it's difficult to determine to what degree we do know that almost a million people in louisiana have lost electricity and we do know that one person so far has been reported dead. Npr's john burnett is on the line with us from new orleans. John you rode out ida hotel in uptown. How bad was it well. The answer is that we don't really know yet. The storm started to ease up down here justice. The sky was turning from the color of an angry sea. Two black knight so it hasn't been safety for anyone to drive around and inventory the damage but the city of new orleans. Nearly a million people with seven hundred fifty thousand homes and businesses is completely without power. I looked at my hotel window here into the garden district in there. No lights at all. Imagine bourbon street plunged into complete darkness. The power company energy reported last night that it's equipment suffered catastrophic transmission damage because of the storm. There were reports that a major transmission tower near the mississippi river has collapsed. What we know is that the storm made landfall but then it slowed down and took a more northerly track. Which put it closer to new orleans and this data just got pummeled with winds exceeding seventy five miles per hour for hours. A weather station across the river not far from here registered. A hundred mile per hour wind gust. How does that compare with the rest of southeastern louisiana. Well we'll know better today. The spotty reports we've been monitoring on local news and social media. Is that these smaller towns. Closer to the coast just took a fearsome beating places like grand dial homa race lynn coquetry took a direct hit from one hundred and forty. Mph plus wins. We've seen reports of the wind peeling roofs off all all over this region a hospital in the town of galliano. A senior citizen center and metairie. Tv station in the new orleans area. There's also report that twenty two barges broke loose and the mississippi river downstream from new orleans. So we'll see what don brings. Here's governor john bel edwards at a press conference yesterday urging people to keep hunkering down today quite frankly. We can't tell you yet how soon it will be before. First responders are going to be able to respond to calls for assistance. So please don't go out. And the extent to which individuals decide to get out and about will inhibit the flow of first responders and search and rescue assets. How water vehicles and so forth. So please be patient. Zalmai think about hurricane. I keep thinking about hurricane katrina too early to make that comparison Well hey i was here during and after katrina and i think we all know. There is no comparison Katrina was the costliest storm in history. Eighteen hundred dead more than one hundred billion dollars in damage. But let's just look at the weather. I actually had higher winds at landfall one hundred fifty miles per hour when it crossed the coast here. Compared to katrina one hundred twenty five miles per hour. Landfall the differences. That katrina was a category five in the middle of the gulf so it was pushing this mountain of water in front of a twenty foot storm surge in mississippi it then it dropped down to a cat. Three on landfall flood waters gushed into the canals and lakes surrounding interlacing greater new orleans and it led to the failure of the federally built levees and floodwalls. We remember eighty percent of the city was inundated. New orleans sank into utter chaos and washington Terribly bungled. its response right now. New orleans is experiencing a massive power outage. We don't know yet. The extent of injuries or deaths but at the levees and floodwalls held this city can breathe an enormous historic sigh of relief. Let's hope so. That's npr's john burnett in new.
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Hurricane Ida Slams Louisiana, Forces Mississippi River to Reverse Flow
"One of the most powerful storms to ever hit the. Us made landfall over the weekend. Hurricane ida directly hit port fouchane louisiana with one hundred and fifty mile an hour winds flooding rain in life threatening storm surges. That were more than seven feet above normal. The storm ripped the roofs off homes businesses and at least one hospital it snapped trees and power lines flooded streets and left more than a million electricity customers in the dark. In fact the entire city of new orleans lost power the winds were so strong they reverse the flow of the mississippi river near new orleans something the us geological survey calls extremely uncommon only four stronger storms in history of ever hit the mainland. Us and as of early this morning hurricane ida has weakened a little but it is still packing hurricane strength as it moves inland tornado. Watches have also been issued for parts of louisiana mississippi alabama and florida. For a lot of people this is all too familiar ida hit on the exact same date as historically devastating hurricane katrina sixteen years ago. I came ashore about forty five miles west of where katrina first struck land but the area was more prepared. This time since katrina hit newer stronger more sophisticated levees were built to hold back storms. Like this and it seems they've been able to hold up this time much better than the ones that failed following katrina more than eighteen. Hundred people died after katrina. This time. it's too early to know what the human toll may be. Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated ahead of hurricane ida but not everyone got out so there are twenty one search and rescue teams from about fifteen different states ready to find survivors as soon as the storm calms down the federal emergency management agency or fema also sending more than two thousand emergency workers hundreds of extra ambulances and millions of meals and leaders of water. We should also get a better idea of the overall damage. Once the sun comes up
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"mississippi river" Discussed on The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"Nearly a century ago the united states saw the most destructive river flood in its history the great mississippi flood of nineteen twenty seven the flooding stretched from illinois all the way down to louisiana and in one part of the mississippi. The river stretched eighty miles wide. The disaster took the lives of approximately five hundred people and displaced hundreds of thousands. Herbert hoover called it. The greatest peacetime calamity in the country's history it ended up costing the feds about a third of their budget more than a trillion dollars in today's terms. So the army corps of engineers built a bunch of levees up and down the mississippi river but then just ten years later it flooded again. The problem was just too big to understand. So when lieutenant eugene rebelled propose an idea that would allow the army corps of engineers to actually see what was going on to understand the problem. They went for it. They wanted to have this model. Because it's important to know that if you can strapped something here. Are you having unintended consequences somewhere else. Whether that's driven by the flooding conditions the driving the low flow drought conditions whether that's having environmental impacts. Are you reducing access for fishermen. So there's a lot of things that go into. It said this physical model and a time before computers was a great way to kind of fully encompass see the impacts to the watershed just a few years after that second big river flood. The location for the river model was acquired and the site was actually next door to a prison of war. Camp in nineteen forty three when the construction began a lot of the earthworks and subsurface drainage systems were built by the prisoners of war that were housed at camp clinton. There's some interesting stories from the locals in clinton about interacting with with the prisoners of war and escapes and things like that but they were given it was it wasn't mandated that they do this. They were. They were paid and canteen script to do this. Work the engineers who worked on this model woodhouse with the difficult project of figuring out what had happened. In those previous floods in the hopes of preventing future ones so to start they laid down materials which mimicked the physical terrain of the earth and then to simulate rainfall and they used inflow controllers and there were hundreds of emplo controllers throughout the model. Because if you think about it. It doesn't always rain uniformly across the entire. Us all at the same time all with the same intensity so you could program Kind of using the same technology as automatic piano players were their re-stimulating or or calibrating maybe a historic event. Sarah said that after plenty of testing they started to see just how accurate this model was proving to be. They matched within Tens of feet of recorded data so they felt pretty confident that as far as historic events They were getting the same results. Once they felt confident about the model's accuracy they could start running theoretical situations. They'd play out different. Severe rainfall scenarios and respond. This help them see some of those unintended consequences of flood mitigation. They finally had the bird's eye view that they needed to achieve their goal. What's going to resolve the issue with the least amount of impact to our citizens and those that were called to protect Some would say it's kind of it had to be incredibly difficult job to not only not the model impart probably was really fun to kind of troubleshooting problems like that's the heart of engineering but then to to say with confidence to someone that's going to have to operate those flood ways. Yes i'm a hundred percent confident. This will resolve your issue. That had to be incredibly difficult decision at. I know it can't be taken lightly by anybody that uses any of this information even today to make decisions like. I don't think anybody takes takes those decisions lightly. Sarah a mississippi transplant. I learned about the model. We'll brainstorming with some of our previous colleagues about community projects at first they were talking about helping neighborhoods. Get bike lanes or running trails then Someone else mentioned well in our own backyard. We have this really cool historical river basin model. And we're really what is that like. That's i'm not from the state. So i had no idea but then the more people you talk to an earlier they said. Oh yeah i remember. When i was a teenager i went out there or yeah. My dad used to work through the army corps. Worked out there. And then they told the story of camp clinton the prisoner of war camp and how the model is built and we were like. This is just too cool. Let's at least go during lunch one day and go miss the site. And that's how sarah and the friends of the mississippi river basin model found. It would start it as a cleanup day turned into a nonprofit organization with some big goals of its own. Well we're hoping you know if we could ever get a portion of the model kind of restored maybe not to scientific calibration but we would like to do the mississippi delta. We'd like to be able to have like a pump and water system where we can just run water through the mississippi delta which is obviously close to our heart being so nearby But just show what it looks like. Once the water over tops the levy At those locations completely theoretical and again not scientific but just to to physically apply what the model used to do said they could see it in a perfect world. Sarah says they'd have enough money for a science center for kids to engage with engineering software and actually work with the model inaction earth. My parents being engineers. I was extremely blessed to have the type of upbringing that challenged my thought. That never said. I couldn't do anything i wanted to do. I just wanna give children. That don't have the same resources and privileges. I have access to spin nearing concepts the way that this is a model. But it's also a map. I feel like we could really help. Put forth like geographic literacy at like. We don't always have the connection between where we're at in our geological and our physical features. There's also a real need in the community for access trails and parks. That are for everybody. The friends of the mississippi river basin model are making a lot of headway on that goal. They've cleared trails that you couldn't even see before you just have to be kind of careful or stick to the buffer cleared area around the model that we've we've we've kind of tried to maintain They really if the park is opened onto desk. The models open so you can feel free to go out and explore and they want you to come explore like a giant striding across the mississippi river basin from omaha to.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"mississippi river" Discussed on The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"mississippi river" Discussed on The Atlas Obscura Podcast
"If you took a walk a really long walk from baton rouge to omaha. It's safe to say would definitely take more than sixty minutes in the real world. You'd have to be an enormous giant to do that but at the mississippi river basin model. Everyone's giant that's because the model squeezes sixteen states the parts of those states that are all connected to the mississippi river into a couple hundred acres of space to reference. That's about the size of one hundred fifty football fields there. Ever based model is a physical model Physical hydraulic model of the mississippi river basin. This is sarah mcewen and the reason she knows so much about this model is because she's trying to save it. It doesn't go to the headwaters but it is kind of stops at key points along the tributaries that The mississippi river main line would have had backwater impacts. So you have like tulsa omaha nashville. These are all kind of key points that are the upstream reaches and then you have those rivers that flow down until they converge join the mississippi. And then you have the mississippi all the way down to baton rouge about half a century ago. The city of jackson mississippi took it over from the us army corps of engineers but by nineteen ninety-three. It was completely shut down with no vision for its future. It was in the middle of a park. Say you have soccer field. Do you have go kart track. You have mountain biking trails but to my knowledge besides kind of mowing it initially to keep the trees and education contained. That was really all that was diet. I don't necessarily know if the if the thought was there that this could be something
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
The Mississippi River Basin Model
"If you took a walk a really long walk from baton rouge to omaha. It's safe to say would definitely take more than sixty minutes in the real world. You'd have to be an enormous giant to do that but at the mississippi river basin model. Everyone's giant that's because the model squeezes sixteen states the parts of those states that are all connected to the mississippi river into a couple hundred acres of space to reference. That's about the size of one hundred fifty football fields there. Ever based model is a physical model Physical hydraulic model of the mississippi river basin. This is sarah mcewen and the reason she knows so much about this model is because she's trying to save it. It doesn't go to the headwaters but it is kind of stops at key points along the tributaries that The mississippi river main line would have had backwater impacts. So you have like tulsa omaha nashville. These are all kind of key points that are the upstream reaches and then you have those rivers that flow down until they converge join the mississippi. And then you have the mississippi all the way down to baton rouge about half a century ago. The city of jackson mississippi took it over from the us army corps of engineers but by nineteen ninety-three. It was completely shut down with no vision for its future. It was in the middle of a park. Say you have soccer field. Do you have go kart track. You have mountain biking trails but to my knowledge besides kind of mowing it initially to keep the trees and education contained. That was really all that was diet. I don't necessarily know if the if the thought was there that this could be something
Inquisikids Daily
"mississippi river" Discussed on Inquisikids Daily
"Hi i'm luke and welcome to the increase. its podcast. today is the fourth friday in july. So we're going to find out about another river to date. We have explored rivers in faraway lands. But today we're going to learn about a river that is in the united states the mighty mississippi river the mississippi is one of the longest rivers globally and the second longest river in north america. In fact the word. Mississippi is the native american word for big river flowing through minnesota wisconsin iowa illinois missouri. Kentucky tennessee arkansas mississippi and louisiana. The river covers two thousand. Three hundred fifty miles. It starts at lake tasca in minnesota and empties into the gulf of mexico off the shores of louisiana. It takes water two to three months to travel from lake. I tasca to the gulf of mexico. Interestingly a tributary or a branch of the mississippi that missouri river is longer than the mississippi by about one hundred miles at the most narrow point the mississippi river is only between twenty and thirty feet across. The width is greatest near benham minnesota spanning eleven miles however. Most of the river tends to be around two miles wide. The mississippi river has played a vital role in the history of the united states. I flat boats in barges loaded with many different commodities floated on the river foods like flour pork and corn were whiskey was also traded along the shores of the river since the river is so long a trip down and back could take as long as nine months with the invention of the steam engine. Steamships traveled up and down the river carrying goods back and forth between the port cities. The very first steamship to set sail on the mississippi was in eighteen eleven. It was named the new orleans. These steamships continued to be common on the river until the transcontinental railroads. Completion may travel overland. Easier traffic on the river picked up again at the start of world war one as the government used it to ferry goods today. It is among the busiest of commercial waterways. Oil chemicals coal steel and iron can now be found traveling along. the mississippi. Booster rockets are often ferried on the river. Since their bulk is unsuitable for other means of transport the river serves the people along its path in other ways as well many cities and towns all up and down the mississippi depend on the water provides. It is estimated that almost fifteen million people get their water from this river. The mississippi river also played a significant role in mark. Twain's books huckleberry finn tom sawyer and life on the mississippi other literary works are also said along the mississippi as are many folksongs in addition to the rivers importance to people the mississippi is essential to wildlife as well. There are at least two hundred sixty different kinds of fish swimming in the rivers freshwater. This represents about twenty five percent of all the kinds of fish. in america. there are ten different species of catfish that call the river home. Catfish can reach lengths of more than thirty inches and can weigh up to one hundred pounds. The heavily oxygenated waters are ideal for these fish. Walleye are also plentiful in the upper parts of the mississippi and several varieties of bass can be found in both. The upper and middle regions fisher. Not the only animals that populate the mississippi river area because the river has many diverse habitats birds are plentiful many use the river as a path for migration with about half of all migratory birds in the country using the river route. Canadian geese ducks and swan. All follow the river's path as they make their way to the warmer climates of latin america. Bald eagles can be seen flying over the river and making their nests along the banks other birds frequently spotted are the great blue heron the ivory billed woodpecker and the white pelican. The lower mississippi is home to many reptiles shellfish and amphibians commercial fisherman filled their nets with shrimp blue crab crayfish and other seafood in the river. Delta the american alligator the mississippi diamondback terrapin snakes turtles and frogs can all be found in and around the mighty mississippi. The mississippi river is an integral part of life in america. Don't forget to come back next. Friday as we finish up our exploration of some of the great rivers on earth..
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"mississippi river" Discussed on DeaconLive
"A little microphone. Tell us what you liked what you think about something. You have questioned on. Asked me about anything during this podcast or any pass podcasts. Click on that open mic. Phone comes right here to the station and we'll play now. Roads are being opened being open. The gas shortage is coming back around so people are going to go back out there and drive again or they're going to sit around and just hoard all the gasoline that they have house but truck drivers are still driving all over the place. We need more truck drivers out there. And there's a stretch of. I ten between arkansas when we read the article real quick. There's a stretch of bridge ten connects mississippi river between arkansas and tennessee. So all over the road truckers. You're probably familiar with this bridge. It's been closed down following a discovery of structural fracture now when i say structural fracture this is a huge bridge. This is a big looks like a big six six-lane three this way through this way lane bridge now. They do yearly inspections on all bridges aldridge's weather at county level city level. And then they rate them they say okay. This is one hundred percent good. This is ninety percent good and a lot of them in the smaller towns of stuff. Most of those bridges are rated like below seventy and sixty. I wouldn't drive on sixty percent passing bridges like having a sixty percent doctor that passes to get his doctor's degree with sixty percent. A crucial interstate bridge between arkansas and texas has been closed. Following discovery of a structure fracture in one of the department of transportation's director reportedly says it could lead to catastrophic event. Now this isn't just a weld snapping or something like this now. If you want to see this picture kinda right here on the screen you can see this go to profit. Radio dot com spanning the mississippi river between memphis tennessee and west memphis. Arkansas hernando day. Soto bridge welcomes a reporting lee. Thirty five thousand vehicles per day over quarter of which are semi trucks. Being such an important part of the infrastructure bridge was undergoing its first inspection since september two thousand and nineteen on tuesday afternoon when a major fracture was discovered beneath the bridge forcing both arkansas and tennessee transportation departments to close it down on both roads and water traffic that means no boats underneath no cars going across it. The dot official told us the closure was due to a quote unquote crack trust. But you can see the photos. It's not just crack. Visibly sheared off. Now here's the video or a picture i hear. I mean that beam right there. It's gone the whole left hand side. What's holding it up. Maybe this'll brace right here. Maybe this little wire hooking up to the light holding it up that thing. That beam sheared off on surprised. Not hanging both states. Dot are reportedly investigating the damage caused and the extent however extreme. And we'll split the cost to repair the bridge on both sides. Traffic must be detoured around nearby states. Fifty five bridge who ovalles trust. That one either is not yet no. They're going to get out there. Put some J. b. weld on it. Get this bridge going and get it back up and running. So i guess it's a it's about ten mile out of the way trip to get around this bridge to get to the closest bridge from there now. That's kinda scary. You've seen pictures of cars driving in the bridges kind of shoot right up from underneath a especially if there's like running water underneath it. Always see the bridge getting washed out. And you're like. Oh my god timmy. Gimmick doug now from my file titled nope over in china. I'm sure you've seen it. They've got that glass bridge that hangs over the big old valley or whatever never walks out and they kind of freak out and kinda look kinda scared and everyone's like going. What if this glass breaks. Well this class breaks well. A man was left dangling from the bridge after the glass panels were damaged by high winds. The man was visiting one hundred meter bridge. Three hundred thirty foot in pylon in the pie on mountain northeast in the northeast country when the incident occurred this past friday several pieces of the gloss floor. Were blown away by. Wins that reach up to about ninety miles per hour. It is not that the chinese or china has about. I'm sorry two thousand and three hundred glass bridges and a number of glass bridges and walkways and slide. So they're big on the glass bridges over there. I guess well eventually this happen. They're designed to attract thrill seekers and capitalize on china's growing domestic tourism. Oh no you come in here. We okay we'll k. We friends who befriends an image widely shared on social media chose a man dangling in the middle of the bridge located in the area near long. Gene firefighters rushed to the man seen to help rescue 'em however managed to get back up. Top sites safely. Tourist was taken to the hospital for observation counseling and is now said to be stable emotionally and physical condition. There has been. It's been closed. According to a longing website investigation to the incident has been launched. This is not the first accident of kind in two thousand eighteen on on the he h. e. b. e. providence. Shut all of the thirty two glass attractions including bridges walkways and viewing decks. While safety checks were carried out in two thousand eighteen elsewhere coun- country one person died and six others were injured in two thousand and nineteen after they fell off the glass. Slide in guang do province. Horrible these names in two thousand eighteen or two thousand sixteen was injured by falling rocks while walking on the bridge. So he's like sitting there walking on the bridge and these like oh my god. He's looking down. he's not looking. Guess what hit him and head. Frigging rock knocked him out dead when we come back. Where's that music coming from. This whole new invention will help you get rid of your earbuds your headphones.
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"mississippi river" Discussed on KOMO
"Interstate 35 W over the Mississippi River. Suddenly collapsed. I was standing on the bridge after falling with bridge and Thinking I was Surely going to die and we had climbed out of the car and we were standing there waiting on the bridge, and I know that there are the emotional and psychological wounds. My injuries were all invisible. My injuries were An eerie metaphor to the damages that were happening under this bridge, and the damages I discovered were happening across. Different infrastructure and that is happening across all across our country. Brown set out to investigate on her own, writing a book about her findings and calling on leaders in both parties to see the human cost of infrastructure neglect. Once we embrace the reality of why it truly fell Then we need to organize and By buying together. Regardless of party. Just don't fall and asked us what party we are. Congress and its massive urine stimulus bill approved $14 billion in relief for public transit, which major cities say will prevent deeper service cuts and layoffs for now. President elect Joe Biden says a long elusive bipartisan infrastructure deal is a top priority. Tapping former self and mayor people to judges. Transportation secretary to help lead the charge High expectations met with cautious optimism..
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"mississippi river" Discussed on KOMO
"W. Over the Mississippi River suddenly collapsed. I was Standing on the bridge after falling with bridge and Thinking I was Surely going to die and we had climbed out of the car and we were standing there waiting on the bridge, and I know that there are the emotional and psychological wounds. My injuries were all invisible. My injuries were An eerie metaphor to the damages that were happening under this bridge, and the damages I discovered were happening across different infrastructure. And that is happening all across our country. Brown set out to investigate on her own, writing a book about her findings and calling on leaders in both parties to see the human cost of infrastructure neglect. Once we embrace the reality of why it truly fell Then we need to organize and By buying together. Regardless of party. Just don't fall and asked us what party we are. Congress and its massive urine stimulus bill approved $14 billion in relief for public transit, which major cities say will prevent deeper service cuts and layoffs for now, President elect Joe Biden says a long elusive bipartisan infrastructure deal is a top priority. Tapping former self and mayor people to judges. Transportation Secretary to help lead the charge. High expectations met with cautious optimism..