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> 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 f
by 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 agoThe 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 agoYou'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 agoCome 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 agoCurious that you put all of those examples in the past tense.
- torstenvl 4y agoDry up - v. - to become completely or excessively dry; to decrease and stop; to cut off the supply of
- edmcnulty101 4y agoThe only thing that's increasing in frequency is sensationalist news coverage and people who are easily influenced by it. https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history
- edmcnulty101 4y agoWhats logical is that this has been happening for tens of thousands of years and if this is surprise to anyone they're not paying attention.
- taylodl 4y agoYou might want to consider how the U.S. manages waterways to ensure the viability of shipping. The fact this is a surprise is the news here - it's not like we don't have decades of experience planning for these events and putting the proper mechanisms in place to handle low flow situations.
- edmcnulty101 4y agoI don't think anyone is surprised except the people who get easily influenced by alarmist news journalism.