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Mississippi River seen cresting in Tennessee, Arkansas this weekend
2016-01-08 20:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Mississippi River, a major artery for U.S. commercial barge traffic, was expected to crest in Tennessee on Friday and Arkansas over the weekend as it pushed south toward the Gulf of Mexico, officials said. The river is predicted to rise just below 40 feet (12.2 meters) in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday afternoon, above the 34 feet at which the city considers it a flood event, while it is expected to crest in Helena, Arkansas, on Sunday, according to Jeff Graschel, a hydrologist at the National...
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El Nio rains get L.A. River roaring to life
2016-01-07 17:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: At the end of Wood Avenue in South Gate, unseen behind its levee, the ephemeral giant strained in its cage. The raw power drew Rita Adams for the first time in her 40 years of living in the neighborhood. She and her son walked under bare winter elms, past tidy postwar homes with American flags flapping in the rain, up the sandy embankment of an old Union Pacific track, to the top of the concrete channel. She lit a cigarette and shook her head. "Wow." The Los Angeles River had awakened. ...
The last prime Swan River land?
2016-01-06 02:57:51| Real Estate - Topix.net
Once-in-a-generation opportunity: East Freemantle mayor Jim O'Neill says residents can shape the riverside site. Pictures: Gerald Moscard The sale of Leeuwin Barracks in East Fremantle this year will see possibly the last big redevelopment site on the Swan River pass into the hands of developers.
Mississippi River Swells Dramatically During Historic Rainfall and Flooding
2016-01-05 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A historic flood has sent the highest water levels ever recorded through the Mississippi River south of St. Louis, toppling records set during the devastating floods of 1993. The massive surge follows heavy rains that dropped up to 12 inches of water across the region during a three-day period in late December. A NASA satellite recently acquired this image of flooding along the Mississippi River from January 3rd, which shows floodwaters as blue and vegetation as green. The previous day, the waters...
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Mississippi River crest rolls toward Tennessee; singer's body found
2016-01-05 01:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tennessee residents girded on Monday for the rapidly rising Mississippi River to crest within days as Oklahoma officials found the body of a country-rock singer whose boat capsized on a lake in late December. The swollen Mississippi and rivers that feed into it wreaked havoc in Missouri and Illinois after late December heavy rain and severe storms brought flooding across several central U.S. states, leaving at least 33 people dead. Officials on Monday found the body of Craig Strickland, 29,...
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