“The control of nature is won, not given.”

I have noted in the past that I don’t like linking to XKCD; if you read this blog, you’re probably reading XKCD as well, so linking to it is like carrying coals to Newcastle or something equally pointless.

I’m breaking with policy because Randall Munroe has two things going today that I really like.

Thing #1: today’s strip. “You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.”

Thing #2: this blog post, which neatly and concisely summarizes what’s happening on the Mississippi River.

The floods above the system are expected to crest 6′ higher than in the 1927 flood, the highest in recorded history, and 7′ higher than the 1973 flood that almost destroyed the ORCS.

(ORCS is the Old River Control Structure, which limits the flow from the Mississippi to the Atchafalaya.)

(Subject line hattip: from the same place that McPhee got his title for The Control of Nature, the engineering building at the University of Wyoming.)

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