Semi-OT Disaster Scenario: Wrestling the Mississippi

[NanbanJim]

I was reading this article on the efforts to keep the Mississippi River on track and asked myself, "why? Why fight against nature? Why not just let it go where it will?"

When the article got to the why (about halfway down, past most of the maps and before most of the dam pictures), I was immediately brought into a T2k frame of mind. All it takes is one bad winter, and in T2k with the US Army Corps of Engineers "otherwise engaged" (what with simply feeding their families and such)...