Although a major drought has affected the Twin Cities area, the St. Thomas Rowing Club is finding positives amid the Mississippi River’s lowest water levels in years.

The Mississippi River water level is at an all-time low of 3.5 feet, which the area hasn’t seen since 1988. However, the sport of rowing isn’t affected much by the lower water levels, according to senior Tyler Burkum.

“Honestly, it’s probably helped us more than it’s hurt us with where we are on the river,” Burkum said.

One benefit to the lower waters is the speed of the boats.

The boats are not long in depth; therefore, they do not need much water to move along the stream, according to Burkum. Low levels help make the boats coast with less resistance to the oars.

Experts from Ukraine have joined Polish and American investigators who are looking into a missile blast that killed two men in eastern Poland this week.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Friday that the Ukrainian experts were at the grain-drying facility in the Polish village of Przewodow where the missile landed Tuesday. The village is located about 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Poland’s border with Ukraine.

NATO and Poland’s leaders have said the missile most likely came from a Ukrainian air defense system that fired in response to Russia’s attack. Ukrainian authorities initially said the missile was not theirs and asked to join the probe.

Twitter continued to bleed engineers and other workers after new owner Elon Musk gave them a choice to pledge to “extremely hardcore” work or resign with severance pay.

While it’s not clear exactly how many of Twitter’s already-decimated staff took Musk up on his offer, the newest round of departures means the platform is continuing to lose workers just at it is gearing up for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, one of the busiest events on Twitter that can overwhelm its systems if things go haywire.

Hundreds of employees signaled they were leaving ahead of a Thursday deadline set by Musk, posting farewell messages, a salute emoji or other symbols familiar to Twitter workers on the company’s internal Slack messaging board, according to employees who still have access to the board. Dozens also took publicly to Twitter to announce they were signing off after the deadline.

“The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried,” Musk tweeted Thursday night in response to the widespread departures.