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PREHISTORIC MEGA STORMS – VOLCANIC WINTER – SUPER VOLCANO
Published on Feb 24, 2016
The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period (Medieval Climate Optimum).[1] While it was not a true ice age, the term was introduced into the scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939.[2] It has been conventionally defined as a period extending from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries,[3][4][5] or alternatively, from about 1300[6] to about 1850,[7][8][9] although climatologists and historians working with local records no longer expect to agree on either the start or end dates of this period, which varied according to local conditions.
AgamemnonIt caused the Mississippi River at St. Louis to routinely freeze over.
When I was a kid I knew people who drove wagons across the Missouri River, just west of St. Louis. Of course the River had not been engineered at that time. It was much slower and shallower.
It used to flood once every 5 or 7 years, but that was ok, the fertile ground it brought made up for the year of nothing. Now, after the corp of engineers widened and deepened the Missouri, a flood can be a major disaster.
But, we have regular barge traffic.
Agamemnon<span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: blue”>It used to flood once every 5 or 7 years, but that was ok, the fertile ground it brought made up for the year of nothing. Now, after the corp of engineers widened and deepened the Missouri, a flood can be a major disaster.</span>
<span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: blue”>But, we have regular barge traffic.</span>
Yes the floods did significantly replenish soil fertility and the sloughs recharged groundwater. The major floods of the last 25 years has now seen the COE leave some levees breached to lessen the impact of flooding in high population areas. When I was back over the summer I spent time in Prairie du Rocher and they are fighting the feds to get their levee recertified or the flood insurance rates will increase so high that it will kill businesses there and prevent others from locating there. Getting close to La Guiannée season!
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