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Report from Louisiana: Low Water

Posted: October 24, 2022 by Pat Austin in Uncategorized
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Low water in the Atchafalaya Basin: all that green? That should be well under water.

By: Pat Austin

ARNAUDVILLE LA – We have been in south Louisiana this week, around the Atchafalaya Basin which is absolutely the lowest I’ve seen in years. There is dry land out there where I have never seen dry land before. It is much the topic of conversation around here; for some, the fishing is great because of this. Others lament cancelled cruises and others worry about the effects on their businesses.

It is a bit shocking to see dry, cracked land and cypress stumps that have previously been completely under water.IA large part of this is due to the ongoing drought throughout the entire country which has resulted in low water in the Mississippi River.

Everything is connected.

No rain throughout the country means water levels in the northern end of the river are the lowest since 1988. Down closer to the Gulf, it is reaching 2012 low water levels. This is all problematic because now barges struggle to get through the river. Fewer barges can go through and the barges must carry lighter loads. Barges that ignore the low-water restrictions find themselves grounded, stuck in mud. Supply chain disruptions are the result.

The USS Kidd, a WWII era destroyer and now museum and tourist attraction, sits on dry land in Baton Rouge due to the low water.

Low water in the Mississippi means low water in the Atchafalaya Basin. This affects the fishing and seafood industry, tourism industry, and much more.

There is precious little humans can do about all of this; what is needed is rain, of course. Jeff Graschel of the National Weather Service explains:

“There’s not any long-range models that are giving us any occasions for rainfall that’ll generate runoff to help and alleviate low-water conditions right now,” he said. “Obviously everybody’s watching that very closely.”

He explained that the rain would need to occur in the upper section of the river valley, such as Illinois, for the effects to be felt further south. Rain that falls in south Louisiana does not drain through the Mississippi, save for what lands directly in the river.

For now, all anyone can do is wait for rain.

Five Under the Fedora Thoughts Mays and Brady, McDonalds, Wendy’s and Church, Mitch being a Bitch, No Regrets and an oddity

Posted: October 23, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Today Tom Brady the Greatest Football player who ever played the game only managed 3 pts against a horrible Carolina team that just traded away their best player.

The last time Brady had a losing record this late in a season as a starter is never.

Willie Mays lost it all at once, Brady hasn’t quite lost it but I suspect his marital troubles have been enough to make the difference since his biggest strength has always been his head

This week both McDonalds and Wendy’s had no carbon for their soft drinks, McD’s gave out cans, Wendys had vitamin water.

Meanwhile the part that my church’s furnace needs to be fixed has not come in in the two weeks since the furnace broke and the heating guy ordered it.

I’m old enough to remember when the US wasn’t a 3rd world nation on this stuff and if you were alive during the Trump years so do you.

With the Democrats in full retreat the decision of Mitch McConnell to pull funding for General Don Bolduc in NH is inexplicable. Well maybe not.

If he things he has the majority in hand he just might figure he would rather risk a deep state democrat than a Trump loyal member of the GOP not part of the establishment.

Given what we’ve seen from the justice department under Merrick Garland I’m totally convinced that Mitch deserves a statue for keeping him off the supreme court but this is a BS move, particularly when for decades we conservatives have been urged to hold our noses to unite against the left.

I keep hearing people say they regret their vote for Bush or Romney or McCain.

I don’t. Gore in office on 9/11 would have been a disaster. Not only were both Romney and McCain were better than Obama but I suspect a lot of the recruitment of folks willing to sic the FBI on pro-life survivors of concentration camp from Obama.

The were all the right choice given the alternative and I don’t regret it one bit. What they did afterwards doesn’t change this.

Finally I’ve come down with Pneumonia. I’ve spent more time sick in the last month than I have in years

I went to urgent care this morning and there was quite a crowd and a very long wait, the nurses and the NP was flat out but were doing the best they could.

There was one oddity. In the three hours I was there A lot of patients came and went but with a single exception all of them had one thing in common.

All were white.

Now 35 or 40 years ago demographically this would not have been se odd, but as a person who works in a place where you can count the white folks on the fingers of one hand I found it VERY odd and living in the town with a large Spanish speaking population I found it very odd

This was not a high end place, nor somewhere that didn’t take Mass Health nor was this demographic split the case the last time I was there three weeks ago. Yet this time there were no black or brown or even Asian faces there among the patients..

It doesn’t really mean anything and as I said it’s not the norm for the place but it was so unusual in my town these days that it really jumped out at me

Inflation finally cuts deep

Posted: October 22, 2022 by navygrade36bureaucrat in Uncategorized
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We have a family tradition of visiting a local restaurant every Sunday after church. It’s all around fun: a nice family outing while supporting a local business that treats us well. The fact that we’ve enjoyed it so much made it extra hard when we chose to cut it, along with many other things, out of our budget.

Despite shopping at Walmart, Sams and Aldi and not changing our lifestyle, its now increasingly more difficult to pay the credit card every month. After this last month, I dug through the last years worth of bills and noticed an ugly trend: the food bills steadily going up. What used to be a 40 or 50 dollar Walmart visit has turned into 100 dollars. Between that and gas, any sort of buffer we normally had is now gone.

So we’re cutting. Biden-flation is now responsible for screwing over our local restaurant because we simply can’t afford to eat there anymore. Most of our friends are simply racking up credit card debt. Long term, I know that’s not going to work, so I move money around and find ways to pay it off, but its becoming harder and harder each month. Forget about planning a vacation, we’re just trying to make each day work. At some point, if it doesn’t stop, we’ll simply be slaves to ever increasing debt.

So yeah, inflation isn’t just some interesting news story to me. Its very real, and I’m watching it gut the hard working middle class, especially those that have large families and can’t just stop expenditures like buying groceries.

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DaTechGuy Interview with General Don Bolduc Now on Rumble

Posted: October 22, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I spoke to General Don Bolduc at the Real Options banquet 10-21-22 in Hollis NH

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You’ll notice that this is a video from Rumble rather than youtube, that’s because while I was off to get to get this interview Youtube was delivering me the suspension that I’ve been waiting on.

Apparently the Democrat/Media/Academic left can question elections till the cows come home on youtube but not conservatives.

So my videos will go up on Rumble where most of what I have has been migrated to.

There was a lot of work put into the interviews that I put up on youtube and I’m not pleased but I had a life before youtube and I’ll have a life after it.

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