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Oh wow. Okay, this isn’t me shooting the messenger lol:
That’s kind of retarded.
Oh boo hoo, Mississippi! Like USACE is in control of unprecedented snow melt and 1,000 year floods. Yes, it’s a government organization that’s staffed by people who put on pants one leg at a time like anybody slinging an oyster drege. Like, c’mon.
I’m fully aware of what happened and knew they filed a suit, but didn’t know it went anywhere. So that’s interesting….well, VERY interesting news you have to share.
So, what is the Corps gonna do if MS says “no”? Let the levees top over and destroy a national port? Flood a joint reserve base used to protect our airspace over the Gulf of America? Flood critical infrastructure supplying 30% of gas and oil to the rest of the nation? Coal? Shipping? Homes? Businesses?
For what? To save a luxury food only people with spending money can afford?
Imagine being a shipping magnate reading this news and thinking, “Yeah, I’ll just use the port of <Miami, Houston, Mobile, NYC, whatever> because they’re not retarded.” Then we lose all those jobs.
Geezus.
Don’t forget that what prompted all this was the totally unprecedented, unpredicted and 100% uncontrollable 1,000 year and 500 year floods that I refer to as The Freshening. Spillway openings in the past didn’t decimate their leases in EBM, but that one did. There was something like a 90-100% mortality rate of oysters. Trust me, I get it.
But I hope they also took time to sue the Pearl, Amite, Mobile, Wolf and Pascagoula Rivers, which also experienced the same historical floods.
Hopefully after that they succeeded suing gravity.
–> And don’t forget that every sluice gate installed along the Mississippi River was installed at the behest of the oyster industry, to include Caernarvon! <–
I swear, it is like dealing with Iraqis. Geezus. The short memory literally reminds me of tribal bickering. Might as well scream “ALLAHU AKBAR” each time they drop those tongs. lol
Here’s why: oysters do not do well in high salinity water. They absolutely get demolished by predation including, but not limited to:
- cow-nose rays
- black drum
- sheepshead
- atlantic oyster drills (truly awful)
- vibrio vulnificus
- and a lot more evil sh*t
So once they start dredging dead oysters they’ll change their song and dance. Watch. When it happens, remember I said it here. Because lower salinity that oysters thrive in keep those predators at bay or remove them altogether (especially the drills, those are the worst).
I’m all about not having the detrimental short-term affects of a reasonable amount of river water, and I’m even more about anything that supports Louisiana’s inshore fishing, but I’m not so brain-dead and blind to the hierarchy of needs that I’d do so at the expense of everything else. lol
Oh, and I’m also fully aware of opening Morganza instead, but that’s just passing the buck somewhere else. There are oystermen in Vermilion Bay and I’m sure they won’t like it, either.
And I heard Meta is building an AI plant in Morgan City (ugh….why) and they have a bazillion dollars and I’m sure they won’t let local politics risk the billions they’re investing there.
The lesson here? Have serenity and stop using lawyers for everything.
