Is the Mississippi navigable through to the sea?

[benburch]

Or is it shut down?

Has anybody seen estimates of how long barge traffic will be shut?

This is an absolutely essential waterway.

[stevedeshazer]

1. I've been wondering the same thing.

No doubt the humongous rainfall upstream will keep things shut down for a while due to continuing flooding.

So much commerce goes up the Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri that I can't imagine there won't be an economic hit of equally humongous proportion.

[Roland99]

2. Ports are closed in the lower Mississippi.

I would imagine the river itself is navigable, but probably a bit higher water levels.

[spuddonna]

3. I would bet that it has been blocked by debris...

Wonder if the coast guard has info...

[benburch]

4. That or...

They are preventing traffic to keep the wakes from the levees. I have done some searching and cannot find any order that the river is closed to navigation.