Will they cancel trips if the Mississippi river is flooded?

[nanatexas]

We leave in a few weeks and it looks like the Mississippi river is flooding. Will they cancel if the river is to high?

[NavyVeteran]

5 hours ago, nanatexas said:

We leave in a few weeks and it looks like the Mississippi river is flooding. Will they cancel if the river is to high?

Are you going on the lower Mississippi? If so, they probably will not cancel. Sometimes the upper Mississippi is too high to get under the bridges but not the lower Mississippi.

 

I just returned from a lower Mississippi river cruise B2B from Memphis to New Orleans and return to Memphis. The river was above the flood level. It resulted in the following changes:

• The boat not able to land at Nottoway because of the high water. On the southbound cruise (downriver), the boat stayed overnight in Baton Ridge instead of going to Nottoway and they took us to Nottoway by bus (not missing any excursions). On the northbound cruise (upriver), the boat missed Nottoway, and they added an extra river day (no ports that day).
• The boat was not able to land at St. Francisville, because the road from the landing to St. Francisville was flooded. Instead the boat landed across the river at New Roads. The bus took us to St. Francisville for excursions. The only impact was that the round trip for the included hop-on/hop-off excursion took longer.
• I believe the boat also landed at slightly different locations at some of the other ports, but the changes didn't have much impact.

 

[nanatexas]

Thank you.. we are going round trip new orleans.

 

[LDVinNC]

You should be fine.  Last summer we were on The Mighty Mississippi trip and because of high water we could not go all the way up, instead diverted over to the Tennessee and Ohio rivers, ending up in Cincinnati.

[Calliope]

Actually the high water will give you a little Lagniappe. With the water high you will be able to look over the tops of the levees and see sites that are normally obscured by the levees. So the whole plantation house will be able to be seen when you steam by along with the fields that can go on for miles. And that  two hours it took to go five miles when headed upstream will pass by in 20 minutes when headed down! Don't worry and have a great steamboatin' adventure.