Posts Tagged ‘History’
HueyPBridgeWideninghttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/hueypbridgewideningTravelHuey P Long Bridge, bridges, river, history, new orleans, documentaryThe History of the Huey P Long Bridge
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Clip of the Introduction to “In Search of Great Places: Travels along the Mississippi River” by Dean Klinkenberg, the Mississippi Valley Traveler
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Clip from the talk “In Search of Great Places: Travels along the Mississippi River“; this section introduces regional historical events. Presented by Dean Klinkenberg, the Mississippi Valley Traveler
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The Ice harvest on the Mississippi River painted by John Bybee
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A short summary of a visit to the area around the St. Louis Arch in St. Louis Missouri.
Filmed on a Canon 60D with a Sigma 28mm Prime lens @24p. It was very sunny that day so I had to set aperture pretty low. Color corrected with Premiere Pro CS5.
Facts about the Arch:
The Gateway Arch is the tallest national monument in the United States at 630 feet.
Construction began February 12, 1963, and the last section of the Arch was put into place on October 28, 1965.
The Arch weighs 17,246 tons. Nine hundred tons of stainless steel was used to build the Arch, more than any other project in history.
The Arch was built at a cost of $13 million.
Visit http://www.stlouisarch.com/ for tour information.
Music: Louis Armstrong – St. Louis Blues
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This video gives a brief history and a simple overview of how a lock and dam system works on the Upper Mississippi River. This video was shot at Dam #4 located at Alma, Wisconsin.
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Thanx for everyones kind thoughts and prayers. I can safely say the “Red Stick” has dodged a bullet. Some weren’t as lucky.
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Hundreds of people living along Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River heeded mandatory evacuation orders when the Army Corps of Engineers opened the Morganza floodway north of Baton Rouge for the first time since 1973. The corps had warned residents of Butte LaRose that diverting the Mississippi River’s flood waters into the Atchafalaya basin could inundate the town.
Several weeks later, that dire forecast hasn’t come close to fruition. The slowly rising water has damaged a few homes in Butte LaRose but spared the vast majority. The mandatory evacuation order has been lifted.
Thousands of acres of crops, timber and catfish farms are still flooded, mostly by tributaries that backed up because the Mississippi River was so high. Hundreds of people are still displaced from flooded homes. Some people had nothing to go home to.
Eventually, the river water will enter the Gulf of Mexico, raising fears the fragile oyster beds, hit hard by last year’s BP oil spill, could suffer again.
Meanwhile, early estimates indicate flooding swamped 450,000 acres of cropland and caused more than $250 million in damages to agriculture in Mississippi alone, said Laura Hipp, a spokeswoman for Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. However, an exact measure of the damage is not yet available because thousands of acres are still flooded.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, mississippi, river, water, levee, city, flood, arc, shtf, wrol, guns, katrina, morganza spill, Louisiana, history, AK-47, AR-15
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History of the Colonization of America Map
History of Colonial America 1497 – 1763
Extreme rainfall and heavy snowmelt have combined this spring to bring the Mississippi River roaring beyond its banks. While humans on the ground have scrambled to evacuate, build sandbag walls and taken dramatic measures not seen in decades — blowing levees and opening the Morganza Spillway — satellites have provided a distinct view of the extraordinary extent of the flooding.
The Landsat 5 satellite flew over the Mississippi on May 10, 2011, about eight days after the Army Corps of Engineers began blasting holes in earthen levees near Cairo, Illinois, when the river had reached a depth of 61 feet. Breaching the levee at the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway, where the Ohio and Mississippi rivers meet, allowed water to run onto 133,000 acres of designated floodway land. But the blasting protected about 2.4 million acres downriver, the Army Corps said. The Comparison is amazing!!
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