Possible Mississippi River Channel Switch?--Phenomenon Explained

[@lorencklein]

Just a couple extra notes from the video: (1) I know I didn't mention it in the video, but when discussing a channel switch, we don't know what the distribution of water would be afterward. Currently the ratio is 70:30 Mississippi:Atchafalaya at Old River, but that is artificially constrained by the Low Sill and Auxiliary Structures, as well as the Hydroelectric Plant. It could reverse to 70:30, or be 75:25, or even the Atchafalaya could capture all of the stream and leave everything south of Old River high and dry. It all depends on the event and what caused it. (2) Just to make sure I'm clear about the issue: A channel switch is a certainty in terms of geologic time (For instance, the entirety of human civilization has been in the blink of an eye geologically--since the end of the Pleistocene about 10,000 years of ago), but that doesn't mean it will occur in our lifetimes. It could be next year, or 500 years from now. We just know that the geologic conditions are there for a channel switch, but with the flood control structures in place, it needs a specific set of circumstances, which can't be reliably predicted. (3) I hope the tone of the video doesn't sound scaremongering or conspiracy theory-ish. It's a bit mind-boggling to look at all of the ways a channel switch would affect Louisiana and the US, and I only hit some of the most obvious out of them all. I didn't even touch how it would possibly destroy the US' largest river swamp, or the impact on farming in the Midwest, or how the new river would require new cities and infrastructure built afterward. I wanted the video to be relatively short, so I had to only hit the basics.

[@TheSrSunday]

The Colorado River also switches channels at its mouth. Geology is different, because of the presence of the Salton Sink, and the rift associated to San Andreas Fault.

[@jasoneddy2586]

I left a message down below please watch comprehend and copy documentary Viktor schauberger it is revolutionary

[@user-lt1jd1ye3v]

What’s fascinating to me is that we need to build the entire South-Eastern Louisiana floodplain according to the Mississippi’s movements so that it may last for 4000 years. But really, we should track where the Mississippi has flown for the past 4000 years and not build river-altering structures diverting those paths.

[@jamesluciuk9878]

Love this teacher. If he fascinates now, I envy the kids that are lucky enough to be in his class now. I had no more than 3 teachers like him throughout graduate school and I still remember them. This guy is a natural teacher.

[@vilstef6988]

Loren-I had a few teachers of your caliber when I was growing up. I wish I'd had more with the dedication and understanding you show. Thanks for your videos.

[@robertailman5092]

I have read John McPhee's "In Control of Nature" - the first chapter simply titled "Atchafalaya"..,describes the Army Corps attempts to deflect the natural tendency of the Mississippi River to seek the best route to the Gulf...,everything you present here seems to agree with his well documented observations. Yes, for the most part all experts in Louisiana KNOW that it is just a matter of time...,avulsion is inevitable. AND, you are correct in stating that other serious problems are surfacing (what a pun): mainly the loss of wetlands in the delta and the salinization of the water table...,Hurricane Katrina was another wake up call that many "experts" predicted because New Orleans is so vulnerable to flooding from the south - storm surge...,John McPhee - I can't say enough about this great author - such a gift to America "Know the ground you stand on"

[@robertailman5092]

Apologies to everyone: the book title is "The Control of Nature" - paperback The Noonday Press, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, 1989 & 1990 (Paperback).

[@citizenschallengeYT]

Loren, you're cool, I like your style and the information you share. As someone who's been interested in the Mississippi River's desire to go down the Atchafalaya River since spending time in Houma in the early 80s and learning about it. It used to be next too impossible to learn anything. Like a good school teacher you keep to the facts and get into the details. It's a pleasure being able to watch and learn about it from my safe perch up in Colorado. I bet for the folks actually living down there, you are provided a very valuable service indeed. Folks need to be aware. Keep up the good work.

[@user-lt1jd1ye3v]

Colorado is not a safe perch I have seen your icy roads and snow in the winter that is terrifying. I will take the gulf coast sun belt any day.

[@Sailor376also]

Again,, Excellent treatment of facts. Well done ! It is a small thing,, but in the first minute, I believe, you stated :When the Mississippi changes its course to follow the Atchafalaya. You did not say if,, you said when. And yes,, Mother Nature plays the long game. She will win.

[@captainjim6300]

Actually what happens when the Mississippi just simply changes it course back to what it was where as much went down the Atchafalaya as did the River below the Old River Control structure which changed it from 50/50 to 70/30 or whatever the formula dictates it to be. Why did they change it simply to make the river deep enough to get ships to Baton Rouge and not just to NOLA. It would not be really changing it would be going back to normal maybe it would even be more to the Atchafalaya with all the changes since the Old River Structure was built after the great flood of 27 as well as the Morganza and Bonnet Carre Spillways for protection of NOLA. The Bonnet Carre Spillway then opened does no structural damage it biggest concern is putting so much fresh water into Lake Pontchartrain. However the Lake is resilient and came back quickly even after the Spillway was opened about 3 times in a Decade. The same cannot be said about Morganza as it floods homes and business and small towns but it saves the Big Easy. One day the river will go back to it's natural course but it has made several changes in the last 50,000 years so who is to say what is natural anymore...

[@Sailor376also]

@@captainjim6300 Hello Jim, The natural course of the Mississippi is whatever it, the river, wants it to be,,, we control very little. And the natural fluctuation are just a matter of the river choosing the shortest, steepest course to the ocean. Over long geologic time, the river carrying a pant load of silt, slows as it enters the ocean and the silt settles to the bottom,, making it shallow where ever the river is flowing and slowing. After the water gets shallow enough,, the water goes looking for the quicker way and begins flowing there. The mud settles and sinks in the original course,, and the river may shift back. Coastal erosion is not just sea level rise,, it is also that the river carries so much less silt than it used to,, and the river is carrying that water and silt between regulated levees and banks all the way to the deep ocean. The delta was built by the water NOT being held within banks and levees flowing out through the marshes and bayous and building the height of the earth with the carried silt. We cut off the silt,, and the swamps and shorelines at the gulf are no longer being supplied. Which leads us back to the river channel. The current river path is half as steep and twice as long as the current alternate, the Atchafalaya. Some day soon,, Mother Nature will eat away a bank,, have a really wet spring,, or a dam will fail in North Dakota or Tennessee,, and Mother Nature will seek the short cut to the sea. When it happens there will be no putting the genii back in the bottle,,,, move the roads and businesses to the new location.

[@captainjim6300]

​@@Sailor376also I agree the River has changed course many times over the past 10,000 years. However it is not nearly as easy for that to happen with the high Levees. Can it happen sure but it may take an earthquake to do it but we have had them at New Madrid and it caused the river to flow backwards for a little while in a certain section. The Levees on the Upper have broken a few times and even had a couple Levee Breaks below Cairo in the Lower but that is getting harder to do as they were laying Concrete Revetment Mats all along the Lower to strengthen the Levees and prevent erosion. Who knows what the future brings we could have Hurricanes and Earthquakes at the same time... I do not plan on living in NOLA and do not work out of there anymore. Anyway when in Louisiana I was always on a boat so not like I was on land to worry about it.

[@Sailor376also]

@@captainjim6300 Hey Jim, Do not rely on the levees. They are kind of advisory. The 1927 floods,, the levees broke in 120 plus places. Levees are just built of whatever soils are available,,and IF the flood lasts long enough,, they water log. And then flow away. The river changes course year by year. That we slow the changes down is amazing,,, but we are just ants,, or children playing with mud balls. There is nothing we do that is perfect or permanent. And nothing is permanent on 7,000 feet of mud,,, the depth of the silts under New Orleans.

[@sidneygrosshar269]

Politicians all roll the dice hoping it won’t happen on their watch. Ask Ray Nagan how that works out.

[@bettyallen6372]

The Mississippi river in that area has changed it's course at least 7 times over many years, and will probably do so again in the future. It did not always have the curve that now puts New Orleans where it is, below the river. Man has locked and channeled the river to provide ships the ability to carry goods to the northern states. One thing to think about is the New Madrid Fault, located @ New Madrid, Missouri. In 1812, there was an 8.0 earthquake the which actually caused the river to flow " backwards" for at least several days!

[@kermithoffpauir2596]

Ships can only travel up to Baton Rouge and no further. There is a rock formation just above the US 190 bridge at Baton Rouge.

[@CortexNewsService]

And even without quakes, the Mississippi and all of its tributaries are meandering rivers. All we can do is slow it, not stop it.

[@swayback7375]

It only flowed backwards to fill the massive chasm left from the quake, it’s reelfoot lake. That really must have been an insane event!

[@GregLedet]

Dude, you've been killing it with the Blipshift shirts...

[@deandanielson8074]

Loren, well done, very interesting and informative. This video is packed with useful information and stimulating to think about. Thanks! Dean from Minnesota

[@DJRenee]

I was taught this thirty years ago in elementary and middle school.

[@georgeweissler5353]

Sir. I stumbled on you accidentally while looking in depth at the failure of the Prentice damn in Nebraska. There were obviously people aware of the danger. There are several videos posted before the flood suggesting the likelihood of just such an event. Your videos on the old river structure are by far clearer than anything I have ever heard on this reality. At the same time, as good as this is, you seem still taking any and all political or subjective comments out of your explanations. The number of ‘do overs’ proves your insistence on exactitude. Middle school teacher you say........wish I could have had a middle school so bent on pure education, about stuff that matters and why. My hat is off to you sir. I have watched all and will continue to watch you on any subject you select. Can’t really explain it I just like your style. Thanks Geo

[@billwilson-es5yn]

The Atlantic Magazine has an excellent article online about how the Mississippi almost reverted back to its old channel in 1973. The Mississippi River channel routinely moved east to west then back to repeat the process. Lake Charles was formed the same way as Lake Ponchitrain when the delta was north of Houston. Louisiana's gulf coast was constantly being washed away with higher ground being created as annual flooding deposited more sediment on the lowlands. That has stopped due to modern flood controls. Those controls have allowed the Atchafalaya channel to become quite deep to provide a faster outlet to the GoM. The ACoE figured a failure of the dam at one end would have so much water rushing thru that the rest of the dam structure would've been swept away. The massive constant flow of water would cut the old channel deeper and wider so 99% of the Mississippi would flow into it, leaving the channel south of it as a giant mudflat with a small river running thru the center.

[@jcolbyt82]

Excellent video! Just FYI Baton Rouge actually does not pull water from the river for their water supply. Baton Rouge pumps all of its water from wells dug into an aquifer. I lived in Baton Rouge for 6 years about a decade ago. Some of the best public water I have tasted! There is however, a major concern about salt water intrusion into the aquifer due to excessive pumping by Baton Rouge and other towns that pump from the aquifer (100% of East Baton Rouge parish water comes from the aquifer). Pumping stations are located all over the city and some of those are at risk. If the river changes course, and the salt water intrusion continues, the same result that you describe will happen. No water.

[@captainjim6300]

Actually the river would not really be changing course but going back to it's normal course where 50% of it went down the Atchafalaya instead of the now 30% with 70% going down the Mississippi in normal situations. This was done as much for making a Ship Channel as far as Baton Rouge as much if not more than for flood reasons.

[@hawkeye98]

Born and raised in Morgan City. We have long known that they will sacrifice MC to save NOLA if the need arises.

[@mwells6064]

Hurricane Andrew 😩

[@user-lt1jd1ye3v]

It’s not just to save NOLA it’s to save the entire Louisiana coast. I’m sorry MC will be sacrificed but there’s nothing we can do if we want to save our entire delta coastline. We’ve already been diverting the Mississippi for long enough (60 years).

[@crazyjack3357]

I feel like letting the mississippi river slowly and controlled switch to the atchafalaya river would be smart as a whole to even cut cost of maintaining the current system and allowing new cities to build in a spot where it won't flood every year or every other year like new Orleans

[@user-lt1jd1ye3v]

I would LOVE for this switch to happen. And I live in New Orleans. We need to rebuild our coastline.

[@billwilson-es5yn]

The US economy is much more important than Louisiana's coastline which has been washing away ever since the deltas had reached the GoM.

[@charleswieand4445]

They are talking about diverting part of Mississippi to California. What's that going to do for erosion into gulf of Louisiana deltas

[@markcheckley3715]

What was NOT discussed is the small-but-possible event of an avulsion through Bonnet Carre to Lake Pontchartrain. This would help the gradient, and take a lot of strain off the system whilst at the same time maintaining the status quo at Baton Rouge and New Orleans. It would kick the can of an Atchafalaya avulsion several hundred years into the future. Not a permanent solution, but there isn't one because even an Atchafalaya avulsion would, in time, silt up and there would be another avulsion. That is in the nature of deltas. A substantial "encouraged avulsion" through Lake Pontchartrain coupled to the already-planned increased flow along Bayou Lafourche might give some centuries of stability IMHO.

[@citizenschallengeYT]

I'm confused by the Red River, it looks like it flows right into the Atchafalaya River, why are they named differently?

[@vilstef6988]

For an interesting essay about the Atchafalaya see the book The Control of Nature by John McPhee.

[@MikeV8652]

Good report, BUT: Baton Rouge does NOT get its water supply from the Mississippi River, but from the Southern Hills Aquifer via the 66 deep wells of a private-sector water utility company called the Baton Rouge Water Company. Google it for more info.

[@shanemarcotte2062]

I once worked for a geotechnical company in Baton Rouge. the engineers there told me that I should drill my water well to 600 feet to tap into the water aquifer at that level and that this is where the city water comes from. So is this aquifer fed by the Mississippi river? Or in your worst case scenario it wouldn't be affected by an avulsion ?

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

Isn't Baton Rouge too far north? And would not the state authorities wait and depend on FEMA to solve the problem? And are not aquifers remnants from ice ages many eras in the past? Or is that just the Ogallala in the center of the continent.

[@billwilson-es5yn]

​@@larrygrimaldi1400FEMA stopped providing disaster instructions to Louisiana after Katrina since the state and local governments never bother to follow their previous instructions over preparing for natural disasters and keeping their personnel present at all times.

[@patrickmclaughlin6243]

You can film power plants

[@terenfro1975]

Build locks on the lower Mississippi and start the slow transition. If you don’t, the next Cat 5 or dare say even a rare earthquake could do it for us. The New Orleans is really done for.

[@captainjim6300]

It would not work the river is too deep and current to fast for any of the traditional type locks like are on the Upper. The Upper is a Barge Channel made to maintain a 12 feet dept. The River is 100 feet deep in many place even as far up as NOLA and above and still over 50 feet all the way to the Interstate Bridges in Baton Rouge. Besides if you dam it up where are you going to put the lakes that creates.

[@captainjim6300]

I think all the work they have done especially closing off the MRGO will make the next Katrina the final nail in the coffin. I have run those waters for years including the Inner Harbor Canal to the Lake and up to Industrial locks and into the River as well as the GIWW to the Rigolets. The MRGO was a huge factor in draining water out of that area when Tide was going out. Now it can't go out that way it would have made much more sense to build the Gate they built on the GIWW West of where the MRGO intersected with it so you could open it or build the same type gate on the MRGO maybe dept was an issue but the Gate they built is only a 1/2 mile or so from where a gate would have worked for both the MRGO and GIWW. That way when tide was going out it could drain the area around the 9th Ward and all of the Harbor Canal as well as even some of the Lake water that needed to be let out. They blocked it off permanently but not for the right reasons they did it to be PC and in a hurry. They also did it without asking information from the Ship Pilots or Towboat Captains who knew the area and how the Tides worked.

[@KWMc1952]

The river's gonna go where it wants to go.

[@29JAKKKE]

Nobody can tell what the water share between the Atchafalaya and Mississipi is gonna be after the river channel switch.

[@jasoneddy2586]

Anybody you know in Corps of Engineers please pass this along it is of great importance

[@kermithoffpauir2596]

The river is salty at least half the year almost up to Baton Rouge. the further up river the more the saltwater is just at the bottom. Every entity using river water for cooling has to treat it first to clean it up and it is returned cleaner than their intakes. A French engineering company designed an ethanol plant built below New Orleans in the 1980's. The salt and silt in the river water eroded all of the valves, and to treat it they only had a small lamella to remove sediment. It would have been far better to drill a well and supplement loss from cooling towers.-+

[@diannefoster3297]

Experts are not always right and you of all people should know that

[@LichaelMewis]

Very informative.

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

The Mississippi River will do what it wants to do. Every 20,000 years or so the big River changes it's course. It's been over 20,000 years since it changed.

[@billwilson-es5yn]

A neighbor's kid that was working on his doctorate for river flood control told me that the Mississippi switched channels every 900 to 1000 years.

[@sharondull2103]

The New Miderd Earthquake made the Mississippi River run back words .

[@kermithoffpauir2596]

The channel depth to Baton Rouge is 45 feet MLG (Mean Low Gulf) level. So shipping would not be immediately impacted.

[@lorencklein]

Thanks for the replies to the video! I'm a little out of my depth when it comes to searching for resources on some of the more technical aspects of the content, so I did the best that I could. For instance, I could never find the datum they used to determine depth because "45 feet" never made sense since generally from what I've always read, the river bottom is about at sea level around Vicksburg and at the mouth is about 300 ft. So your comment definitely filled in a piece of the puzzle I was always wondering about. Thanks!

[@kermithoffpauir2596]

@@lorencklein that rock ledge is keeping the sand from going downstream as well. That build more stable delta than just silt

[@kenneth9874]

It would definitely build a lot of land with the tremendous amount of silt that is currently wasted off of the continental shelf

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

Would like to have heard more about past floods and river channel changes.

[@lorencklein]

Check out the video I published today about the historic Mississippi River deltas!

[@donkeytico13]

Don't voluntarily give up your right to video just to avoid confrentation. That's what they want people to do. Suttle social conditioning.

[@citizenschallengeYT]

Though think about it, in this age of anger and terrorism, it gets a bit more complicated. Our infrastructure is amazingly vulnerable because we grew it during good times when we had a civil society. Given the current Trumpian dependence on fear, hatred and resentment, I can imagine people responsible for these structures and plants have cause to be distrustful of reconnaissance, even if benign. I could see them wanting to find out. Not that I like it or think it's a good thing. It's hideous, but its the world we are creating for ourselves.

[@jasonclark6194]

@@citizenschallengeYT I understand completely why you choose not to be a wave and remain a ripple. ( See what I did there) lol as someone who has has strikes on their channel just for having a different opinion from that of the official narrative. Although I believe in the right of free speech and standing up for it. There is consequences like losing your channel and your platform to have your voice heard completely. Sometimes you have to play by the rules and pick your battles. Love the content and your own way of delivering it. PS if you have a chance to check out RIP van wrinkles I'd love see your take on it. The salt mines swallowed up the house and a barge story sounds interesting

[@slwtgf]

New sub here 👍🏽, fascinating info, thank you!

[@jeanwissinger6013]

Meridian Fault. Nature always finds a way.

[@cannonrogmatt]

Jean Wissinger correction it is called the New Madrid Fault that is in the St. Louis area.

[@jeanwissinger6013]

@@cannonrogmatt Thank you. I couldn't remember exactly what it was called.

[@JoeB16v]

Interesting choice of rugby team caps ..

[@diannefoster3297]

They need saline water plants to removes salt from water.

[@charleswieand4445]

Had a gas line blow in Millburg Michigan took them 5 hours to empty the line out after shut down.🤔🤔

[@joebledsoe257]

It almost happened sometime in the 70's maybe 80's.

[@johnnyreb3542]

1973 to be exact, and it came very close to happening then..

[@kermithoffpauir2596]

The pilings for the Atchafalaya Basin Causeway and bridges go down 90 feet below ground level. A major issue is the rock ledge which is under the river at Baton Rouge, just above the maintained ship channel. It has trapped sand and made the river shallower for many miles upstream

[@stump1897]

It’s not a matter of if, but when.

[@TheSrSunday]

Very interesting. Could the port infrastructures be saved by building oceangoing ships-capable locks downriver?

[@lorencklein]

It depends on how much river flow stayed down the current channel. Based on the scenarios I've read, the Mississippi would only have a quarter of the flow it has now, which would be even less than the Atchafalaya has currently. Currently the river depth at Baton Rouge is about 45 feet deep (It bottoms out in New Orleans at 200 feet according to what I've seen online). The biggest issue with a locks system would be where you would get the water for it. The Panama Canal has a huge reservoir where it gets the water for the locks system. Louisiana doesn't have the elevation change or the soil types to have a lake that size unfortunately. Good question though!

[@Sailor376also]

@@lorencklein One quarter of the flow could,, possibly,, support a canal and lock system. But only with continual dredging,, slow water drops its sediments,, and you just mentioned it,, there is nearly nowhere to anchor the locks. The soils are all old silt. Nothing heavy placed anywhere will not sink. A double negative,,, hmm put a heavy concrete and steel structure on the mud,, and it will begin sinking that day. Bedrock is at varying depths,,, as much as 7,000 feet of mud to bedrock.

[@captainjim6300]

@@lorencklein You would run into the Problem of where to put the water that will be behind the dams you build to put in locks. I have never seen a lock and dam in a 100 feet deep river especially one with the current of the Lower Mississippi. This is nothing like the Upper and besides the silt would cause problems for the Dam and the Locks and the silt would back up even more.

[@RedCoalsSweatSouls]

Nice!!!

[@raytharpejr.8566]

The Huey P Long bridge isn't in Baton Rouge!

[@lowellmccormick6991]

There is more than one Huey P. Long Bridge in Louisiana. The one in Baton Rouge is on Airline Hwy (Hwy 190) just north of I-10.

[@raytharpejr.8566]

@@lowellmccormick6991 you talking about the O.K. Allen bridge I assume

[@lowellmccormick6991]

If you drive over the O.K. Allen bridge in Baton Rouge you'll see a sign at each end that reads, "Huey P. Long Bridge". I commuted over that bridge back in the early 70's and had no idea that it was a Huey P. Long Bridge. You made me look.

[@meauxjeaux431]

@@lowellmccormick6991 I bet it actually says "BUILT UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF HUEY P. LONG"

[@lowellmccormick6991]

Here's the street view going up the Huey P. Long Bridge in Baton Rouge. www.google.com/maps/@30.5073964,-91.1900182,3a,75y,267.5h,87.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5l24FDsdt9_TSUX7ggy1kQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[@pierreproudhon9008]

You know people are scared when he has to put in a 1 and a half minute long disclaimer

[@MrPAULONEAL]

I could see the Mississippi River bypassing New Madrid just south of New Madrid.

[@wade5941]

Nature is patient.

[@renerusso5603]

THE HUEY LONG BRIDGE IS IN NEW ORLEANS.

[@dustinlaborde4537]

Ever think of doing a video on MAF ? Boeing is building SLS there .... food for thought

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

Mississippi river scared the shit out of me lol

[@TWOCOWS1]

Your evidence, filming and clarity are fantastic. You should be making the documentaries for that travesty called NOVA and Nature blah blah. The only thing you must avoid forever, is to film and drive at the same time (which you did in your other vids). Not cool nor safe.

[@swayback7375]

Darn woke mob PBS!

[@sidneywhite749]

Good video, more detail and slower presentation.

[@CAPTSKIP6]

The Huey P. Long bridge is not in Baton Rouge but just north of New Orleans around Mile 105. Oceangoing vessels can navigate as far north as the upper Baton Rouge bridge, which is hwy 190, around Mile 233.

[@lorencklein]

The Upper Baton Rouge bridge is also named after Huey P. Long (...and Oscar K. Allen, but he's not notable enough for anyone to remember him.), but I've always heard it called by that name or "The Old Bridge" Is it confusing? Yep. But so is the state I live in. :^)

[@kenneth9874]

There are several bridges in Louisiana named for Huey P Long

[@btaylor9788]

Sounds like a great location to build a desalination plant. You know It's just amazes me how nobody is actually looking for a solutions. They just stating problems. I am so tired of hearing problems and no solutions. Don't care.

[@swayback7375]

Desal is “too expensive “ And there’s no political will for solutions to many things despite public support and interest. Solutions on this kind of scale are just so large and truly complex that it would be a lot of work on a scale that would require government, but we’ve been unable to maintain or upkeep most infrastructure in the last 50 or 70 years, so it seems impossible for our government to pull off something like this unless it starts working much more effectively and efficiently… We’re headed the other way, manufacturing outrage, intentionally holding technology back to save jobs from automation, military spending is soo high while teachers quit and the kids literally don’t have the opportunity to learn… even book burning and attempting to limit teachers to teaching approved content… Without some real change we’re looking a pretty grim couple decades at least

[@stevelaue1298]

Thank you for dealing in fact and citing real sources instead of dealing in "The Sky Is Falling!" or "Government Conspiracy" horse manure that so many sites use to lure in viewers. Even supposedly responsible videographers, including Nat Geo Channel, the History channel, etc., are so busy titilating viewers with all the worst case, gory things that could happen, you'd think they were sorry it hadn't already done so. Anyway, nice job. Well done.

[@willardcupit5305]

If cut the level at Vicksburg MS,at curve of river,kiss , St Joe Louisiana, good by, Vidalia and Fariday,as well as parts jonesville Louisiana and baton rouge Louisiana,not stopping till gulf of Mexico some where at Texas line,One day it will happen,pray to God before happen people be warned weeks before reach them

[@richardspears5384]

Where can I get a FerMooseie shirt

[@timfisher77]

the prancing moose!!

[@jameshancock1515]

Why don't we get Elon Musk to use the Boring Company to make and under ground tunnel from the Mississippi to the Lake mead connection and not have any man made lake unless it is at a Irrigation area in Texas or New Mexico.

[@jasoneddy2586]

, this is very important for you to watch Viktor Shoauberger,s comprehend and copy documentary it is so revolutionary could really have an impact on our modern waterways he was a genius who understood water in a way we still do not they're still figuring out what he already knew today from 90 years ago

[@jake2213b]

You made it like it could happen overnight but you are talking hundred of years if nothing is done. But they are things done by man that will make it hard for mother nature to do her damage. They keep the main channel clear and deep for the ships. Also they are on going maintenance going on all the time.

[@JenelleD12]

jake2213b There ya go! Keep up that mentality! Not like history hasn’t proven to us time and time again what happens when we think we have control over anything in nature.

[@jake2213b]

@@JenelleD12 I was talking a few hundred years that man will fight. But if man would stop and do nothing it will happen. Like Concrete has a life and will need to be replace. Metal will rust and get to weak.

[@shawnpitman876]

@@jake2213b You seem to have a lot of faith in levees that have proven to be insufficient previously, perhaps you should learn from your ancestors and not be such a cocky, self assured fool.

[@robertboykin1828]

nature happinin, people down stream, heads up.

[@winterhorse290]

it did it in the past and will it in the future

[@willardcupit5305]

Great Mississippi river going change,always have, truth Army corps of engineers loose,Nature at worst will cut path,even bust level,run new river channel across , Louisiana down to the gulf in Texas

[@bustercarswell4190]

Exercises after knee replacement

[@suicidesitter6527]

The river will change course with hurricane and flooding.

[@edwardjones9631]

Once in 83 or 84 the Miss River was flooded from Baton Rouge on down! While entering the western outskirts of metro Nawlins, before skirting the sw side of Lake Pontchartrain on I-10 eastbound, I once saw the east flowing, leading edge of that whole swamp-plain flowing @ maybe 2 to 5 feet deep heading into Lake Pont?? Thats still a mystery to me! What was happening, there & then?? That was puzzling, even mind-boggling??

[@clementinemonroe717]

😳👍sounds good mkay 👋🤪👌

[@snnetteachexnayder63]

Wow!!!

[@boldcounsel9406]

*This is in general, and not about public education:* But to dismiss information simply because it's called a "conspiracy theory" is a little naive. Such theories usually involve the government, which is ran by politicians. And politicians literally conspire for a living, and too often it is not for your benefit. Dismissing information due to any label isn't a good practice and is why the FBI (extremely trustworthy) coined the phrase "conspiracy theory" in the1960's. Oh that's a CT.... I don't want to hear it. Don't know what this specific one is about and, again, this is about personal research, not public education.

[@saiveechintamaneni801]

lol why'd the channel change just get a better remote 🥶🥶

[@mikaelsza]

13:30 Are U trying to sell me this shirt?

[@willardcupit5305]

If level at Vicksburg MS in cut,power of all river water exit old bed cut new channel,Loose lot land,as well all tugs barges run out water,,lot these help slam into level,cut larger channel,drop water to the chapellie basement,locks dams be useless, Than build these should be sinking piling into level in forcing them cement,Over year had bubble form level,few these busy open rest river power force water cut new path channel to guft

[@greysilverback3924]

If it wasn't for the man made structures the Red and Atchafalya would already be the main channel. Did you actually say that ?

[@citizenschallengeYT]

I think they say so 1927. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/saving-atchafalaya-92966433/ www.wafb.com/2019/06/20/showcasing-louisiana-miss-river-nearly-changed-course/

[@billwilson-es5yn]

The ACoE noticed in 1942 that more and more water was flowing into the Achafalaya so expected it would capture 80% of the flow if left unchecked.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

It's "new-klee-er" not "new-kew-er"!

[@Sketchyowl]

Peep egret taking shit 7:58

[@davidpringle8089]

She needs to hand the microphone over to her husband.

[@jasonw3770]

you have first amendment right to video anything you can see from a public place don't let the tyrants scare you out of your constitutional rights

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

Huh? Don't see what the comment has to do with river channel changes

[@lloydadkins885]

You first I'll watch

[@billwilson-es5yn]

The LEO's also have the right to snatch away your silly cellphone then arrest you if you complain about it.

[@TWOCOWS1]

ok pumpkin, are u making an educational vid, or carrying out a living room conversation, unfettered by an audience and the protocol?

[@559806]

Nu-cu-lar?

[@holdens5304]

NOOOO NOT FIRST

[@worseto1]

Putting on the tin foil hat.

[@jasonking2943]

If your hands were tied behind you could you talk?

[@jacobangers]

First

[@Ken-ti5me]

Could not stand to watch with all the DISTRACTION of your arms flapping around like a wounded bird!

[@tolipwen1487]

I got all the way to the end, being informed, then ya mention religion(When Prophecy Fails), thumb down.

[@karenworthington7403]

Very informative, but dude, you are a teacher and scientist. Please pronounce it correctly. NuclEar, not nucUlar. George W. Bush always displayed his ignorance by saying 'nucular'.

[@MikeV8652]

Jimmy Carter always said "nookier," and he was a nookier engineer!

[@brucethedruid]

Its a regional dialect pronunciation. There is no "right" way to say it. You are only showing your ignorance by insisting on a "right" way.

[@karenworthington7403]

Regional dialects do not always equate a new correct way to pronounce a word. It is correctly pronounced nuclEar.

[@toddsutton5672]

lol school teacher and facts.... what bs.