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This is a freaking temporary thing. The Mississippi has always ebbed and flowed. A few years ago it was threating to top the levees. This is a non-story unl

This is a freaking temporary thing. The Mississippi has always ebbed and flowed. A few years ago it was threating to top the levees. This is a non-story unless I'm missing something.

vidanay 4y ago
You're missing the fact that temporary things can still have a huge impact on individuals and populations.
- edmcnulty101 4y ago
  This ebb and flow has been happening for thousands if not TENS of thousands of years and if populations are surprised by it....they should have built some redundancy or alternatives.
  - klyrs 4y ago
    Tens of thousands of years? That's nothing, volcanos have been erupting for billions of years. Why do those keep making the news?
    - edmcnulty101 4y ago
      Do you think the height of the Mississippi changes once every 10,000 years? This happens every few years. In 2019 there was the longest flood in Mississippi river history literally 3 years ago. https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history Now a three years later it's at one of lowest in history. It shouldn't make the news but it's easy to alarm influenceable people.
WarOnPrivacy 4y ago
> This is a freaking temporary thing. Why introduce this? No one else is suggesting the levels could be here forever. > The Mississippi has always ebbed and flowed. If your inference is that these historic drought levels are a regular occurrence, you may want to reconsider what historic means. > A few years ago it was threating to top the levees. Is your point here that extremes cancel each other out? How is that logical?
- bequanna 4y ago
  The clickbait, alarmist title of the article definitely seems to be suggesting this is not temporary.
  - klyrs 4y ago
    "Is drying up" means that it's currently taking place. "Disrupting" means that it's currently wrecking the status quo. Neither implies permanence.
    - edmcnulty101 4y ago
      You're trying to manipulate language. "Is drying up" is way different than "levels are low". Drying up is as permanent as something can get.
      - klyrs 4y ago
        > Drying up is as permanent as something can get. Until it gets wet again, right? Both droughts and floods can have disastrous consequences. They're always news. If you're upset because you're seeing increasingly frequent reports of increasingly drastic weather extremes, it might be because the frequency and extremity of weather events are increasing. And even if we knew this was going to be happening for several decades, the fact that it's happening today, and the impacts of those events, are news.
        edmcnulty101 4y ago
        Come on. No one uses the term 'dry up' for a temporary condition. The money dried up the aquifer dried up the relationship dried up the oil dried up.... People use 'levels are low' or something similar for temporary conditions. I'm not really going to debate this anymore.
        klyrs 4y ago
        Curious that you put all of those examples in the past tense.
dopidopHN 4y ago
Yeah. Everything is fine. This is obvious.

This is a freaking temporary thing. The Mississippi has always ebbed and flowed. A few years ago it was threating to top the levees. This is a non-story unless I'm missing something.

vidanay 4y ago

You're missing the fact that temporary things can still have a huge impact on individuals and populations.

edmcnulty101 4y ago
This ebb and flow has been happening for thousands if not TENS of thousands of years and if populations are surprised by it....they should have built some redundancy or alternatives.
- klyrs 4y ago
  Tens of thousands of years? That's nothing, volcanos have been erupting for billions of years. Why do those keep making the news?
  - edmcnulty101 4y ago
    Do you think the height of the Mississippi changes once every 10,000 years? This happens every few years. In 2019 there was the longest flood in Mississippi river history literally 3 years ago. https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history Now a three years later it's at one of lowest in history. It shouldn't make the news but it's easy to alarm influenceable people.

WarOnPrivacy 4y ago

> This is a freaking temporary thing. Why introduce this? No one else is suggesting the levels could be here forever. > The Mississippi has always ebbed and flowed. If your inference is that these historic drought levels are a regular occurrence, you may want to reconsider what historic means. > A few years ago it was threating to top the levees. Is your point here that extremes cancel each other out? How is that logical?

bequanna 4y ago
The clickbait, alarmist title of the article definitely seems to be suggesting this is not temporary.
- klyrs 4y ago
  "Is drying up" means that it's currently taking place. "Disrupting" means that it's currently wrecking the status quo. Neither implies permanence.
  - edmcnulty101 4y ago
    You're trying to manipulate language. "Is drying up" is way different than "levels are low". Drying up is as permanent as something can get.
    - klyrs 4y ago
      > Drying up is as permanent as something can get. Until it gets wet again, right? Both droughts and floods can have disastrous consequences. They're always news. If you're upset because you're seeing increasingly frequent reports of increasingly drastic weather extremes, it might be because the frequency and extremity of weather events are increasing. And even if we knew this was going to be happening for several decades, the fact that it's happening today, and the impacts of those events, are news.
      - edmcnulty101 4y ago
        Come on. No one uses the term 'dry up' for a temporary condition. The money dried up the aquifer dried up the relationship dried up the oil dried up.... People use 'levels are low' or something similar for temporary conditions. I'm not really going to debate this anymore.
        klyrs 4y ago
        Curious that you put all of those examples in the past tense.

dopidopHN 4y ago

Yeah. Everything is fine. This is obvious.