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re: Old River was man made?
Posted on 8/1/20 at 12:42 pm to Fat and Happy
Posted on 8/1/20 at 12:42 pm to Fat and Happy
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So if a supervillain wanted to do super villain wanted to cause problems, they would just blow up the area between the miss river and old river?
Enjoy Gitmo.
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Posted on 8/1/20 at 12:47 pm to Strannix
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He was making 6 figures back in 1830
But he had to pay for food and the wear and tear on his horses. Taxes, too.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 7:23 pm to Fat and Happy
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So if a supervillain wanted to do super villain wanted to cause problems, they would just blow up the area between the miss river and old river?
No, you start at the top and blow the first large dam on the Missouri River in Ft. Peck, Montana and the result would be every dam in the Mo River system being wiped out. The result would be catastrophic along the entire Missouri and Mississippi River valleys and would wipe out every city in it's path from Pierre, Sioux City, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, all the way down to New Orleans. In fact, I would think our Missouri River dam systems would be amongst the most highly guarded structures in the country.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 7:44 pm to SoDakHawk
Speaking of the Missouri River, I recall reading an article many years ago saying that the Mississippi River was really a tributary of the Missouri River, and that the river continuing below their junction should have been named the Missouri River instead of the Mississippi.
Don't recall the rationale for claiming that the Mississippi River was really a tributary of the Missouri, just recall reading an article about it.
Don't recall the rationale for claiming that the Mississippi River was really a tributary of the Missouri, just recall reading an article about it.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 7:49 pm to cypressbrake3
That's true. I believe it's because the Mo contributes more water volume at it's confluence. But back when these rivers were named they thought the Mississippi was bigger.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 9:04 pm to SoDakHawk
Settle down, Dr. Evil.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 10:14 pm to AlwaysPutsSeatDown
Posted on 8/1/20 at 11:32 pm to SoDakHawk
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That's true. I believe it's because the Mo contributes more water volume at it's confluence. But back when these rivers were named they thought the Mississippi was bigger.
The Ohio River dwarfs both of them.
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The Ohio River is the largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi River. At the confluence, the Ohio is considerably bigger than the Mississippi, measured by long-term mean discharge. The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m3/s); and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m3/s). The Ohio River flow is higher than that of the Mississippi River so hydrologically, the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
This post was edited on 8/1/20 at 11:42 pm
Posted on 8/2/20 at 4:02 am to NYNolaguy1
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Clearing the log jam on the Atchafalaya was really what accelerated the process
The log jam that Captain Shreve cleared was on the Red River.
This is how history gets fricked up. People writing about stuff they have no idea what they are talking about.
Posted on 8/2/20 at 4:38 am to AlwaysPutsSeatDown
Grew up fishing that oxbow.
Posted on 8/2/20 at 5:05 am to The Boat
But there's only one Horseshoe Lake. And there is no known Long Lake in the State of Louisiana.
Amirite?
Wrong, waay wrong.
Amirite?
Wrong, waay wrong.
Posted on 8/2/20 at 8:16 am to Bigfishchoupique
Posted on 8/2/20 at 8:52 am to Mike da Tigah
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With slave labor as well.
Cancel the Mississippi River.
Posted on 8/2/20 at 10:07 am to pwejr88
Posted on 8/2/20 at 10:42 am to SoDakHawk
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That's true. I believe it's because the Mo contributes more water volume at it's confluence. But back when these rivers were named they thought the Mississippi was bigger.
Mississippi River is significantly larger at the conference of the Missouri, but the Missouri is significantly longer.
Posted on 8/2/20 at 1:04 pm to Slippy
Scientific American? C'mon man. Don't you know that science is fake. It is advanced by the government to fit whichever political narrative that is popular at the time..
Posted on 8/2/20 at 2:27 pm to AlwaysPutsSeatDown
A group of us baws fish and camp there often. I guess in the spirit of the Corna we should wear our life jackets around the camp fire just Incase the structure fails.
But seriously we love that place. Great cat fishing and watching LSU football at the camp is some of the finer things in life.
But seriously we love that place. Great cat fishing and watching LSU football at the camp is some of the finer things in life.
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