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Related: About this forumHurricane Isaac 'drove Mississippi River backwards'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19435026Extreme weather can cause coastal rivers such as the Mississippi (at left) to reverse their flow
The storm surge ahead of Hurricane Isaac made the Mississippi River run backwards for 24 hours.
US Geological Survey (USGS) instruments at Belle Chasse in Louisiana recorded the flow of the river, finding it running in reverse on Tuesday.
The flow reached nearly 5,200 cubic metres per second (182,000 cubic feet per second) upriver, with a height of nearly 3m (10ft) above average.
Normal flow is about 3,540 cubic metres per second in the opposite direction.
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Hurricane Isaac 'drove Mississippi River backwards' (Original Post)
xchrom
Aug 2012
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Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)1. The new Thamesissippi....
"Here we see the barge traffic waiting for the change of tide..."
liberal N proud
(60,338 posts)2. I bet that stretch of the river that was closed last week is open again
mopinko
(70,138 posts)3. we need flood gates.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)4. we need somethin...cause what we're doing doesn't seem to be working. nt
mopinko
(70,138 posts)5. i remember the dutch all but laughing at us after katrina.
they have sea gates that keep out this sort of storm surges. they said- yeah, they cost a lot of money. how much is it going to cost to clean up that mess you have there?
xchrom
(108,903 posts)6. they should laugh at us. in fact, now that i think about it --
we should give NOLA to the dutch and the italians should give venice to the dutch.
2 beautiful places saved.