The Army Corps just announced it should be able to handle Mississippi River barge traffic despite a drought causing veeery low water levels. The drought had threatened to cause traffic on the Mississippi River — used to transport everything from grain to petroleum to coal – to a halt as soon as this weekend.
Here are some photos of the drought-drained Mississippi River, taken on Dec. 6, 2012, via Bloomberg.
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