It’s not that bad there’s no basements you build according to the land.

@@GothBatty well, we don't normally have basements where I'm from, but it isn't because of flooding... it is because it costs too much to excavate through the limestone that is between 6 inches to 3 feet below the ground level in most of town. Not by the river, but until they finally succeeded in taming it, flooding was a bit of a problem. Oh, and for most of the 7 years between 2 and 9 I lived in a house where there had only been a couple of inches until they came in and put down 4 inches of top soil.

I’m no expert on this topic but I immediately thought the area surrounding the Mississippi River is largely a flood plain

It's because of the new Madrid earthquakes

@@ElicBehexan I would like a little more detail... I don't need your address, just the state... In my mind limestone is more of a northern area... But I'm not a geologist and I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn last night 🤣😂

“Yellow Fever” is an outdated term. We say “Asian American Fever” now.

@@JesusFriedChrist lmao

@@JesusFriedChrist Racist comment be racist... it's called that cuz you go jaundice and turn yellow...

Yeah. MS Delta native here. You couldn’t even really settle the Delta until the 20th century, and none of the towns really got going until after the Civil War. Today, the whole area is a massive feat of engineering with dams, levees, and artificial banks to try and contain the flow.

According to this video, Memphis, Tennessee with a metro population oround 1.3 miillion and close to 600,000 in the city itself, and New Orleans with a 1.2 million metro are NOT a major US cities...

You just blew my mind. I never put 2 and 2 together.

my brain Right now 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Southern Illinois is known as Little Egypt

Never knew that

That’s not entirely accurate. Southern Illinois is called “Little Egypt,” because the joining of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers closely resembles the Nile delta. The names of the cities, then grew from that.

the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers have worse flooding than the MIssissippi, and there are still hundreds of millions of people living along them.

Yeah I don't live anywhere near the Mississippi and not even in a state that borders it, but even I knew that it was due to flooding (and the unpredictable shifting of the river channel).

Rising waters is not a "disaster". It's a natural, regular occurrence.

@@areguapiri thank you. it's humans who are the disaster!

@@areguapirii mean it can lead to serious damages and death, so yeah flooding can absolutely be a disaster.

Excellent statement regarding the blues

Facts. Let them know

The Confederates didn't take the Union's attempt to conquer Vicksburg seriously. They assumed the Union army would not be able to deal with the heat, humidity and malaria.

Dry cold may seem better, until one realizes how much their skin suffers if they don't stay on top of moisturizing their skin and humidifying the air. The Rocky Mountains suffer the greatest from this phenoma thanks to this plus high elevation.

No one is suffering in Colorado compared to Mississippi be foreal 😂

Totally same in Fargo, also dead in the middle of the red river floodplain. Way to go colonizers!

Why the hell should they listen to savages who were living in the stone age?. Obviously people settled the Winnipeg area quite successfully. They knew how to control rivers. What a goof you are.

I think it actually moved less cubic meters of earth than the Panama Canal, but more than the Suez Canal. This was the second largest earthmoving project in modern human history.

​@@blobblorg6541 I appreciate that you qualified modern history. Ancient people did all kinds of stuff.

White men, bless their hearts.

you forgot to mention the trees.

@@ericolens3 😂

Tree-mendous Comment!

Factories, factories, and factories. Dams, dams, and dams.

There are no Dams on the Lower. But there are a few docks that we stop at to load and unload product.@@areguapiri

No Ice Age, Just Noah's flood :)>

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@@lewis7315 melt water pulse 1B

That, is overly simplistic, and really only South-West Minneapolis and St. Paul proper can say that is true. Ok maybe Burnsville parts of Bloomington and definitely Edina and alright there are southern suburbs over by St Paul that yes are on high ground. But most of the west suburbs are on a rolling plain, the north suburbs the same and east toward White Bear Lake/Oakdale are the same. Maybe 25% - 35% of the area is as you say the rest is glaciated or at least north of the river and to the west.

For example, Maple Grove. Minnetonka. Anoka. Not until you get down towards Shakopee on that side do you hit any real elevation changes that you could call bluffs, and really the features you are talking about are in and around south St Paul and as I said Eagan/Edina/Ft Snelling

Same with Cairo New York

We also have Milan New York. We pronounce it as “my lan” with the A sounding like an A in Anne.

Geoff rarely does homework on a local scale

Syruptishisly

Mark Twain's hometown

thanks, Cliffy

​@@dennislodermeier1741who are 3 people who have never been in my mother's kitchen

Here in South Africa we have a town called Alabama (It was named after CSS Alabama, a War Vessel from the US) but it's pronounced totally different to the state. My friend, a local from there told me it's pronounced "Ala-baah-ma" 😂

I didn't know that but I drove through Cairo a few weeks ago and man it looks like 2 out of 3 buildings there are abandoned

@@missourimongoose8858 Sad thing is Flooding was just the start of Cairo's problems, it's truly one of the most unlucky cities in America. Between Flooding, the reduction of shipping by water, getting bypassed by the highway system, de-industrialization, white flight and general isolation Cairo has faced problem after problem creating such a bleak outlook for the town

Yes and high crime rates.

Technically the river is divided into two areas The Upper Mississippi begins at Cairo IL going to the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota. The Lower River begins at Cairo and down river to the Head of the Passes just below Venice LA. Then there is the Southwest Pass some 21.8 miles to the Gulf which is transited by ships and vessels with a deeper draft. So after my long answer St Louis is part of the northers area.

Why did it grow larger? That’s a good question.

only one of those cities is the capital of a state that's easy to move to from LA.

vegas for a long time was only hospitality - which doesn’t pay the greatest. and also until recently people didn’t associate vegas with raising a family, they associated it with crime and casinos - not until about the 90s did people start hearing of summerlin, henderson, and spring valley as “great suburbs” tucson is a college town, and has the same vibe as a place like jackson mississippi- it’s the west coast version of a southern city. it’s hot, not much to do. phoenix - financial/tech hub, hub for several airlines, it pitched itself to snowbirds the same can be said about why most texas cities are booming but el paso hasn’t moved an inch. . .

LOL Houston is out of control....@@julm7744

​@@julm7744 San Antonio isn't growing much? What? That's news to me and I live in Texas. As with most other major cities in the US since the pandemic, San Antonio proper's growth has slowed down a bit. But, it hasn't declined like some major cities have during this period. And---even with the slow down in growth, San Antonio still ranked third in overall growth betwen July 2021 and July 2022 according to the latest US Census. Only Forth Worth, TX and Phoenix, AZ, respectively, had larger numerical growth during that year. In addition, with San Antonio and Austin's metro areas merging due to their close proximity, together, they are expected to grow from 5.2 million in 2023 to 8.3 million by 2050. The growth in these two areas (and throughout the rest of the Texas Triangle) is already a major headache for the state in terms of housing and transportation infrastructure. By the way, I'm not sure where you're getting your facts about Texas cities, but a lot of major to medium-sized cities in Texs have been booming since the mid 20th century and not just Austin and Dallas, but also includes Fort Worth, Houston, Lubbock, El Paso (yes, El Paso AND Lubbock), Brownsville, Killeen, Bryan-College Station, Tyler, Laredo, Midland, etc. Of course, being as large of a state as Texas is, not all major to medium cities have seen explosive growth. That or either they have slowed down (or declined) over the past couple of decades. Such as cities like Corpus Christi, Beaumont, Waco, Wichita Falls, Amarillo, etc.

I also thought it would have been interesting to note that Illinois original state capital, Kaskaskia, is now fully on the wrong side of the river. Would have fit well into the segment on political borders at the end.

I thought I was the only one that felt like some medium-sized cities were missing on the northern portion of the river. Just couldn't put my finger on it. But you did. LOL

Don't forget about the Government Bridge that connects Rock Island Arsenal to Illinois and Iowa.

@@andrewolson1157 part of Kentucky can only be reached through Missouri, and other parts shift between Kentucky and IL

Hmm

And St. Louis, And Minneapolis

The New Madrid Fault is kind of the "one hit wonder" of the geology world because it had a single massive earthquake in the 1810s (before much of the region was intensively colonized) and nothing of note since. While it will likely have another earthquake sometime in the future, it isn't enough to deter human settlement. Japan and Chile both have larger and more frequent earthquakes (with Japan and Chile being the Taylor Swift and Beyonce of the Earthquake world respectfully) and are more densely populated than the New Madrid fault region. The real reason that area is sparsely settled can be taken from its local name "The Bottoms" as in the frequent floods that ravage that part of the Mississippi River System.

@@jonathanbowers8964 Respectively. Damn autocorrect.

@@jonathanbowers8964I was from a village about 10 miles north of new Madrid that don’t exist no more due to high river and blowing the levee. If you want to rebuild and live out there than insurance will only cover you if u build on stilts. You’re very correct

I've caught some really nice catfish around the Grain elevators but sure as hell not going to eat them, no telling what the chemical plants may have added to the water.

Yep. I'm in one of those plants daily, across the river from BR. They're an economic boon for the region, but at what cost?

You can keep your winters

Also the setting for The Mary Tyler Moore show

They are really stretching the definition of what is considered part of the "metro" when they say it has a population of 4 million

literally, the main city has 800k.@@nickpavia9021

@@nickpavia9021 That's not too far off. The Minneapoilis-St. Paul MSA has about 3.7 million people, while the St. Louis MSA has about 2.8 million.

That is a great book. John McPhee writes some very fascinating books on a variety of subjects. Imagine an entire book on oranges or birch bark canoes.

And that actually diverts about 25% of the Mississippi's flow into the Atchafalaya River and Basin. Without the ORCS being in place, New Orleans would STILL be devastated from Katrina. The Basin bridge is probably one of my favorite stretches of roadI've driven.

Vicksburg now is just a Civil War Museum! .... But a Beautiful One!

Our best days are not behind us, with our port were basically operating at baseline right now.

With Landry coming in, I'm worried any changes for the "better" are gonna be at the expense of the residents. Landry's cronyism is gonna make Edwin Edwards look like an amateur.

@@dalegoff219 - I call Jeff Landry - PeeWee Herman… Electing the former Attorney General is going to be seen as the worst move the voters of LA have ever made

blytheville, Osceola???

I did a job once at a NUCOR in the Arkansas portion of the ArkLaTex, in the middle of winter. 20° outside, and about 120° inside. 🤣

Rechel

Yes

As they should be ! You cannot control water.

New Orleans sits at what was the most ideal portage location between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain so it had to be where it is, and Memphis is called Bluff City for a reason. It's literally built on the bluffs along the riverbank. Even with the elevation Memphis is sometimes at risk of flooding.

I was reading a notice some years ago from the Coast Guard an interesting fact. The majority of men who go out in their boats fishing/hunting and never returning their bodies are found and their zippers are down. The stood up in their boat to urinate and fell overboard.

@@glennrishton5679 yea that makes sense.

It almost sounded like he said “It”-aska. I could see how someone might make that mistake if they didn’t know.

and then of course you have the oddballs like KDKA in pittsburgh

I live on the river and these designations are evident here. I've always wondered why W and K?

Gotcha, Please remember to keep your hands clean and washed up at all times so that you can protect your health, Stay safe buddy and thanks for your feedback

@@Lee-jh6cr i looked it up. the US was given certain letters for radio communications. W, K, N and A. N and A are used for military, so you see W and K for radio and tv

Thanx for checking! It was late and I was too tired. Where I live we have several radio stations - W on the east side of the river & K on the west. And now to check what is done N of Itasca, , ,

Flood of 93 water flooded pictures of the river level just below electric lines 8-9 miles inland across from Warsaw IL on east side of Mississippi on the Missouri side. Wayland MO sl elevated from that long flood plain. It wiped small towns completely off the maps on the Illinois side....

@@fxrivrgirl It was a mindblower to see the new post-1993 town of Valmeyer, moved to a bluff above the river, while the few remaining riverside Valmeyer buildings sit abandoned. There hasn't been a series of rains like that since then, but with weather, there's always a chance.

We don't use those on our planet. I'm joking, it's a 3/5 ratio and somewhat easy to reckon.

Although, it's only connected due to a canal.

The Athabasca-Mackenzie watershed area could support a vast population. Even in the cold.

Little known history about RE Lee saving St Louis from erosion.