Mississippi Business Journal » severe e=weather http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:16:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Authorities reopen Mississippi; ‘trickle of barges’ getting through http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/23/authorities-reopen-mississippi-trickle-of-barges-getting-through/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=authorities-reopen-mississippi-trickle-of-barges-getting-through http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/23/authorities-reopen-mississippi-trickle-of-barges-getting-through/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:23:01 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=61640 MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Authorities have reopened the Mississippi River to some boat traffic, hours after freeing a barge that ran aground in dangerously low waters caused by an extensive drought. A trickle of barges had begun heading north as of late afternoon, but clearing all 33 northbound tows and 72 southbound barge strings was going [...]

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