JM, Jim and Nathan, LRRD fabricators/prototypers, at River Rally 2013. Nathan, Jim, JM and I spent last weekend exhibiting our Em2 at the River Network’s annual River Rally. We met people from all over the country who are dedicated to river conservation — a...
This flood is causing terrible human suffering and economic loss. In southern Illinois, thousands are in shelters, many here in Carbondale. It’s easy to focus on that suffering now, and talk about simple short-term fixes. But only a sober view of this disaster...
As this historic flood moves through the Middle and Lower Mississippi Valley the paper of record gives us articles like this, here with my annotations. Nothing about why this flood happened, no history, no science, no informed analysis. Nothing that might prevent the...
Thanks to Jon Remo for this guest post. As the Mississippi River Flood of 2011 reaches the Gulf of Mexico much attention has been paid to the system of levees, floodwalls, flood retention dams and floodways constructed under the Mississippi River and Tributaries...
Today the receding Mississippi and Big Muddy River let me drive to work without a long detour. My neighbors are filling demolition dumpsters with flood damaged stuff. Flooding causes terrible human suffering and reporters rightly cover that. Compelling stories, but...
