River relics in central US surface as drought drops water levels

[CrusaderFrank]

US Drought Monitor

Historical level flooding in 2011, major drought in 2012. In May of 2012, the Mississippi recorded an all time high. Now it is at an all time low.

Wider and wilder, with an overall warming.

It's called "weather"
A flood last year and a drought this year proves nothing about climate.

7 Biblical fat years? Global Warming

7 Biblical Lean Years? Manmade Global Warming

Wider and wilder, with an overall warming just like Joseph said

 

[Old Rocks]

A very good explanation of "wider and wilder" by one of our leading climate researchers.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtRvcXUIyZg]Weather and Climate Summit - Day 5, Jennifer Francis - YouTube[/ame]

 

[rdean]

US Drought Monitor

Historical level flooding in 2011, major drought in 2012. In May of 2012, the Mississippi recorded an all time high. Now it is at an all time low.

Wider and wilder, with an overall warming.

It's called "weather"
A flood last year and a drought this year proves nothing about climate.

7 Biblical fat years? Global Warming

7 Biblical Lean Years? Manmade Global Warming

Wider and wilder, with an overall warming just like Joseph said

And the earth is only a few thousand years old and the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood.

You should be teaching a "science" class with all your data and understanding.

 

[Missourian]

The Montana was a Missouri River stern-wheel steamboat, one of three "mega-steamboats" (along with its sister boats the Wyoming and the Dakota) built in 1879 at the end of the steamboat era on the Missouri—when steamboats were soon to be supplanted by the nation's expanding railroad network.[1] It was 250 feet (76 m) long (excluding the paddle wheel) and 48.8 feet (14.9 m) wide and weighed 959 tons (870 tonnes), excluding cargo.[2] For a while the Montana's size allowed it to compete with the railroads, but the railroads continued to close the gap. On June 22, 1884, the Montana met its fate when it collided with an underwater obstruction near Bridgeton, Missouri, variously reported as railroad bridge or a submerged tree branch (a snag).[2][3] To allow its cargo to be unloaded, it was beached on the Bridgeton side of the river, where in the following years its rotting hulk was repeatedly buried and uncovered as the banks of the river shifted.


In the winter of 2001–2002, unusually low water levels in the Missouri exposed the remains of the Montana for the first time since the mid-1960s, and the State Historic Preservation Office of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources contracted SCI Engineering, Inc., of nearby St. Charles to monitor and photographically document the remains. The following autumn, at the invitation of Dr. Steve J. Dasovich, head of SCI's Archaeological Services Division, members of East Carolina University's Maritime History Program conducted an excavation and investigation of the wreckage.[1][4] In 2012, low waters once again exposed the wreckage, and it was the subject of news reports.[3] In these reports, Dr. Steve J. Dasovich is quoted attributing the cause of the wreck to striking a submerged tree, rather than striking a bridge.


The Montana was the subject of the History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives episode "Skeleton in the Sand: The Montana" in September 2003[5] and was featured in the Wild West Tech episode "Biggest Machines in the West" in December 2004.


Slideshow of the U.S.S. Inaugural:

Low levels on Missouri and Mississippi Rivers reveal steamboat, WWII minesweeper | wtsp.com


Video of the steamboat Montana:

Missouri shipwreck resurfaces because of drought

 

[Desperado]

I guess now would be a good time to clean the river bed. Get rid of those underwater navigational obstacles. Also love the phrase " Now it is at an all time low. " Heard that one a lot a few years back about Lake Okeechobee during the drought in Florida. What was funny was the reporters were screaming that the lake was at an all time low but in the same newscast they went on to say how an old Indian settlement had been found in the dried up part of the lake.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

A very good explanation of "wider and wilder" by one of our leading climate researchers.

Weather and Climate Summit - Day 5, Jennifer Francis - YouTube

LOLz

The more you post it, the consensus there is

 

[Trakar]

I guess now would be a good time to clean the river bed. Get rid of those underwater navigational obstacles. Also love the phrase " Now it is at an all time low. " Heard that one a lot a few years back about Lake Okeechobee during the drought in Florida. What was funny was the reporters were screaming that the lake was at an all time low but in the same newscast they went on to say how an old Indian settlement had been found in the dried up part of the lake.

Such is not necessarily internally inconsistent. We have dramatically altered and changed most watersheds in the US over the last several hundred years. It is entirely possible that a body of water could be at an "all time low" in modern history, and yet not much different than water levels experienced in pre-Columbian regional drought episodes.

I do agree, however, that given the frequent idiocy and ignorance portrayed on most local network news stations, the errancy of a local news talking head is a more likely explanation for the anecdote you relate.

 

[Trakar]

The Montana was a Missouri River stern-wheel steamboat, one of three "mega-steamboats" (along with its sister boats the Wyoming and the Dakota) built in 1879 at the end of the steamboat era on the Missouri—when steamboats were soon to be supplanted by the nation's expanding railroad network.[1] It was 250 feet (76 m) long (excluding the paddle wheel) and 48.8 feet (14.9 m) wide and weighed 959 tons (870 tonnes), excluding cargo.[2] For a while the Montana's size allowed it to compete with the railroads, but the railroads continued to close the gap. On June 22, 1884, the Montana met its fate when it collided with an underwater obstruction near Bridgeton, Missouri, variously reported as railroad bridge or a submerged tree branch (a snag).[2][3] To allow its cargo to be unloaded, it was beached on the Bridgeton side of the river, where in the following years its rotting hulk was repeatedly buried and uncovered as the banks of the river shifted.


In the winter of 2001–2002, unusually low water levels in the Missouri exposed the remains of the Montana for the first time since the mid-1960s, and the State Historic Preservation Office of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources contracted SCI Engineering, Inc., of nearby St. Charles to monitor and photographically document the remains. The following autumn, at the invitation of Dr. Steve J. Dasovich, head of SCI's Archaeological Services Division, members of East Carolina University's Maritime History Program conducted an excavation and investigation of the wreckage.[1][4] In 2012, low waters once again exposed the wreckage, and it was the subject of news reports.[3] In these reports, Dr. Steve J. Dasovich is quoted attributing the cause of the wreck to striking a submerged tree, rather than striking a bridge.


The Montana was the subject of the History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives episode "Skeleton in the Sand: The Montana" in September 2003[5] and was featured in the Wild West Tech episode "Biggest Machines in the West" in December 2004.


Slideshow of the U.S.S. Inaugural:

Low levels on Missouri and Mississippi Rivers reveal steamboat, WWII minesweeper | wtsp.com


Video of the steamboat Montana:

Missouri shipwreck resurfaces because of drought

Excellent information!! Thank-you for sharing.