OUTSTANDING VIDEO MR. KLEIN! Can’t wait for the next one!

Excellent sharing of knowledge. Thank you!!

Great stuff! I've been fascinated by these structures and the Corp's attempted control of the Mississippi River since reading McPhee's mid-'80s piece in the New Yorker on the Atchafalaya vs the Mississippi. My blues-musician partner and I will be taking Amtrak this Thursday morning from our home in Tucson to New Orleans then will take a road trip up Highway 61 (searching for music) up to a family horse event in Lexington, KY. I had added a detour that will take us across the river and up Highway 15 so I can finally see the structures at Old River before they're gone (which seems inevitable). Having just finished John Barry's Rising Tide, and with the current high water along the Mississippi, I'm ready to abandon the trip if conditions suddenly change (like an early hurricane hitting the area) so I monitor the weather daily along with continuing my research on the history of the control of the Mississippi River. I'm elated to have found your videos just days before we embark on this adventure. So if the creek don't rise we'll be heading (for the first time ever) to the heart of the Mississippi Blues Country (boyfriend's dream) and the ORCS (my dream). Again, many thanks for passing on your knowledge and enthusiasm. Let me know if you have any advice for us.

My father was from Marksville, Louisiana and was five years old when the 1927 flood happened. He told us what he remembered. I have been across the Morganza Spillway a gazillion times. I had a cousin that helped build it.

Ok, Loren, Your information and the documentary is fabulous, accurate and easy for people to learn. Really nice.

@TWOCOWS1

Жыл бұрын

@@troysparks3772 I don't know about the law in that country, but here in US people go to prison for that. However, the "Law of Rationality" dictates that too. I am actually saying these to prevent you from getting into an accident and harm yourself, since your work is so wonderful and educational. But if you like to chance that, the choice is yours. Some kids need to burn themselves before believing that fire burns.

@TWOCOWS1

Жыл бұрын

@@troysparks3772 i deleted all my "hard time" stuff. let him drive, text and film. god willing, he wont get into any accidents, nor his viewers. the rest your things are rude and unworthy.

@troysparks3772

Жыл бұрын

@@TWOCOWS1 I’ll remove the unworthy stuff. Have a blessed day Clarence.

DANG Mr. Klein you have a nice setup!

@lorencklein

5 жыл бұрын

Protip: You never know how much you need 3 monitors until you actually have 3 monitors.

Awesome vids. I've always been fascinated by the engineering behind controlling the Mississippi/protection of lower Louisiana. Love the shirt by the way.

Nice video. Im glad i live more north toward echo and near red river. Just 45 min north of there. Still i walked behind my house over levee and even the ole red was high lol. But thanks for the info amd love the channel.

I know a lot about when they will open the structures or do anything with them since my nanny works for the army Corp of engineers

👍Great Teacher

Awesome 👍😊

Great video. Any chance of you doing a video about Lake Peigneur and the salt mine that flooded and made a huge whirlpool and waterfall? I'd love to hear an updated story about it.

@lorencklein

5 жыл бұрын

That's on my 6-12 month plan, actually. Fun fact: I used to teach about 3 miles from Jefferson Island/Lake Peigneur.

@diegaspumper8501

3 жыл бұрын

@@lorencklein you must have been in Erath then because Delcambre is not that far from the lake. My kids go to school in Delcambre.

Thank you for these. I’m in south Louisiana and I’m concerned.

SLOW DOWN. Excellent information about the infrastructure and analysis of how it functions, but the "fast forward" delivery means I'm unlikely to remember it. I do want to see more, so I subscribed.

Nice video

Zgreat video and great content to turn into trading or schooling for children who will someday be future adults having to deal with or actually make the decisions on this which as you said before affects a huge section of our west and central Midwest United States! Only a great teacher such as you would think of the value of teaching this to our children/future adults. Something our positions should think about something highly relevant to their citizens they (say) they represent!

The no. 2 idea for a video that I mentioned in your severe weather video centers around the bayou chene project. The thing that delayed the project for so long is a lack of money. I believe the money finally came from the coastal restoration fund. They have plenty money and because this project will greatly benefit the marsh that's where the money should come from. If we can some how convince our elected officials that the two (flood control and coastal restoration) goes hand in hand then we would greatly benefit from this. With your knowledge and willingness to do videos perhaps you could do a video on how effective this bayou chene project is in rebuilding the marsh and plant the idea that more projects like this should be funded by the coastal restoration fund. Flood waters is what built the marshes to begin with and and with proper flood control projects we can rebuild them again.Thanks for your videos, hope you"ll consider doing some along the line I mentioned.

Thank you for this series on the lower Mississippi. I'm currently doing a research project on the threats and consequences of the Mississippi being captured by the Afchafalaya. Is there any source material you'd reccomend? The paper is for a history course. Thank you!

@fr73ed38

4 жыл бұрын

John McPhee, "The Control of Nature"

they may soon relize it is cheaper to move people than to move a river....

@Odin029

5 жыл бұрын

That rich soil would always bring people back. The Mississippi is like the Nile. The natural floods enrich soil along it's banks.

Ah ... I was wondering ... I fast-forwarded the video to March 26th, 2068 and the spillway hadn't been opened yet ...

Gannet! You need a Rode mic to match the hat :)

What’s with the Australian airforce logo in background? Thanks

@lorencklein

5 жыл бұрын

It's a photo I took while I was in Australia of a Fairey Gannett, one of my favorite planes of all time.

Is there any way to get all the extra water to the western states? Just wondering if you have any ideas. Thanks,

@lorencklein

2 жыл бұрын

You can't really move water artificially over such long distances, not to mention the Western states are at a much higher elevation, so you'd try to have to move water uphill!

I think you're wrong at 10:29 ... culminating in a backwards representation of the flow regimes at 11:08 ... The _blue graph_ should be labeled as the rising river, and the _red graph_ is the falling river. The way to think about it is once the crest occurs, it's hard to subside because the downstream portions of the river are already higher than normal, so streamflow is SLOWER. That means that when the levels fall at one particular gauge, another downstream gauge is hitting its crest and causing resistance to flow at the upstream gauge. Why? Because the slope to the ocean is less after a crest. When the slope is less, less water flows. Even at equivalent gauge heights. This is why it's important during flooding events of the lower Mississippi to watch Red River Landing and Baton Rouge for rising water. After a crest, we know that the streamflow tends to be less than the published lookup tables. The tricks used to do this have already been covered by your channel, so you know how USACE does that in the lower river. I'm sorry, but you need to take down this video and redo it with a *New Future You* who has learned from his mistakes. If you have any questions, I could refer you to a paper of the USGS by Robert Holmes, Jr. That one is easy to grasp and free.

The Atacfalaya River is the other outlet of the Mississippi. Geology doesn't lie.

It's pronounced "Bonny" Carre. 😉

@lorencklein

5 жыл бұрын

What can I say? I'm a Louisiana-born and raised guy who apparently has the soul of a Yankee. :^D

@Odin029

5 жыл бұрын

@@lorencklein Oh and the 'Madrid' in New Madrid is pronounced with a short A sound and the emphasis on the first syllable. It's Tennessee just don't ask

@John-tx1wk

3 жыл бұрын

@@Odin029 Well, yeah, but New Madrid is in Missouri. Just barely but is in Missouri.

Look at the old naval flood maps. It's time to go y'all.

Have you seen the flooding up the Mississippi River. In Arkansas and Oklahoma?

@lorencklein

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, the water is on its way down here, but thankfully the full crest shouldn't be as high as forecasted.

@IAMElectric369

5 жыл бұрын

Loren Klein not yet. Wait til next year.

@marymcwright8980

5 жыл бұрын

I've watched it. That water is moving pretty fast. I hope the mouth can hold it.

@IAMElectric369

5 жыл бұрын

Mary Mcwright at this point, one willful crawfish could cause a disaster.

New Madrid - Say: "New MAD-rid".

Mostly the people who live inside the flood way, and were paid for flood rights, don’t want the Morganza opened. Cajun politics have played an important role for decades.

Should a shown the eagles nest

I am from krotz springs

The whole idea of flood gates is ludicrous and unnecessarily expensive when built and to maintain when a spillover levee would do a better job

First

@Adam-ex9bx

5 жыл бұрын

Ada Grow first is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the treasure chest

@adagrow771

5 жыл бұрын

Whatever 😒

I cring each time you mispronounce Bonnet Carre ( it's actually "bonnie car"...)

$$$$ "controlling" nature

Heart my comment, you won’t

Don’t talk so very fast!

11:21 - It's called "dynamics". 12:35 - "The Control of Nature", John McPhee. Read it. He hints at apocalypse, but is too honest to indulge in it. In general, there is no mystery to anyone listening as to what constitutes a flood plain, similarly as regards areas subject to earthquakes, wild fires, tornadoes/hurricanes, etc. Depending on the location, some are fairly common, others less so, and some subject to decisions made by government agencies, over which you knew you had little control. CA wildfires as an example, which lack of forest management is (or course) blamed on 'climate change'! You expect the perpetrators to accept responsibility? I am personally tired of the 'news stories' featuring those (typically shedding tears on national news) who decided to move to or stay in one of those locations and then did not evacuate/buy insurance/provide a storm cellar/make seismic improvements, etc, depending on the frequency of the problem. Please try to act like an adult and do not whine that your failure to prepare for any of those is a problem others must solve. You won't get air time (since TV news *LOVES* tears), but you'll get respect as a moral agent.