I happen to live close to the Old River Control Complex. The damage from the 73 flood can still be seen today, especially on the sonar in my boat. Massive scour holes and deep trenches dug by the raging waters. We use these features to catch some of the biggest catfish in the country!!!

I have no clue why this amazes me. I have been on a Mississippi River watching binge for days now.

While evacuated to Lafayette,, my Grandfather met my Grandmother.

I damn near died in the flood of 93. It was a crazy violent flood boy.

Texas passed a law to move water anywhere in the state from anywhere in TX. Looking at all the lakes in East Texas. The water is all surface water and easily depleted. The largest "consumer" of surface water is evaporation. Looking at the Mississippi it would have to have more than one diversion point since floods in the north would not be helped by diverting from far south. It would have to be very, very huge. To prevent evaporative loss it would be better in a pipe or covered canal. What happens when the folks out west get used to the water and demand more & more when there have not been floods for a while? When the river gets low how are the barges going to cheaply transport goods? Here in Texas one factor is everybody out west has to have their lawns, golf courses and flower gardens. The Edwards aquifer has dropped well over a hundred feet as of over 20 years ago.. I saw a TX state employee watering grass at a rest stop in the middle of a desert. Now they want to drain our lakes. In fact one year water was pumped frome one lake to another that was dangerously low, too much water pumped to Dallas, the Nation's highest per Capita water user. I suggest looking at desalinization. Expensive but those who use need to pay not all of us who do not benefit from it. Flood control in the Mississippi basin? How about diverting to some huge lakes or water our plains for agriculture. There are droughts there too. California needs to stop mooching off the rest of America and start being good responsible, contributing citizens.

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I can't imagine what that was like. I was in Hannibal in 73 when it flooded that alone was terrible the night before it flooded. I had noticed it had dropped about 8in I thought well it's going to go down through the next morning I woke up the roof 16ft Water on Main Street

"Louisiana 1927" What Has Happened Down Here Is The Wind Have Changed Clouds Roll In From The North And It Started To Rain Rained Real Hard And Rained For A Real Long Time Six Feet Of Water In The Streets Of Evangeline The River Rose All Day The River Rose All Night Some People Got Lost In The Flood Some People Got Away Alright The River Have Busted Through Cleard Down To Plaquemines Six Feet Of Water In The Streets Of Evangelne

Before I saw the Mississippi the biggest river I ever saw was the Colorado I thought that was a big river lol...

this hit the Ohio river too was talked about a lot when I was a kid.

history repeats itself

Imagine a presidential candidate running on a platform based on engineering and technology

About where would a channel on the Mississippi River be made, below the Missouri River or below the Ohio River be? Then piped to the Colorado River Basin.

River should be deepen,levee reinforced, but biggest solution must be done- huge irrigation and pumping scheme to divert water to west,to Colorado River

A system could be made to reroute the water to a huge dark lake waiting for extra water then it could be diverted to Lake Powell wand other systems to provide water for the west. The pumps required to lift the water to the higher altitude could be created by this excess water being routed through a hydroelectric system in the pipe lines to supply this water.

No one thought to just move further from the river? Why the need to control it?

They should have kept Saint Bernard.

The narrator sounds like Stacy Keach

Well New Orleans was paid back 10 fold by Katrina

I live on the Columbia River in the Portland/Vancouver area. And we get Plenty of Rain. Some have suggested punping it to California. Id rather Drown than give LA a single damn oz of water!! Ps KOBE RAPES

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?

The same thing happened 1973 the river was close 120 feet above flood ,stage all for the love of cotton,,

Water should be diverted at Cairo and sent west to the colorado river.. I prefer over the red desert in wyoming. Also enough resivores should be built throughout the Midwest that huge rainstorm can be stoped from reaching the missippi. It's a crime so much water is wasted into the ocean

Narrator speaks so blithe. Farmers were responsible for levees. Continental US ....Mighty Mississippi.

This is pretty old, but great footage. I can tell its pretty old, because it is well known now, that Herbert Hoover was a terrible human being.

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They needed millions of beavers, but they killed them all for money. Think of all the trees and soil they wasted building those tall levees for thousands of miles. Man ruins everything by trying to control natural occurrences. Even the Pannama Canal is failing these days. Inventions are good but men must constantly monitor their structures and work with nature....