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"Picked up a touch of dengue fever upriver," the traveler boasts, and his Chablis-sipping companions are one-upped.
We travelled upriver together.
The Trinity River in Texas was carrying flood crests from torrential rain two weeks ago in the Dallas area and from heavy rain last week upriver near Crockett.
She said the grounding 70 miles upriver from the mouth of the Columbia apparently resulted from a steering malfunction as the ship tried to maneuver through a curve in the waterway.
The scheme will be completed in time to attract fish migrating upriver in the autumn.
The extremely low levels of the Mississippi are allowing a wedge of saltwater to push upriver from the Gulf of Mexico.
In Reserve, about 20 miles upriver from New Orleans, about 40 people were evacuated briefly Friday after a pilot light from a clothes dryer apparently touched off fumes from gasoline being pumped into an underground tank.
Louisiana's first hydroelectric plant will creep upriver at 2 to 4 mph, meaning a trip of two to four days, according to Merrimac Corp., which commissioned the $500 million project.
It stayed in the river for about 11 days, then headed into the Hudson and upriver two weeks ago.
The chemicals apparently leaked from the plant in the Byelorussian town of Novopolotsk, 480 miles upriver from Riga just over the republic's border.