[at-l] Frances and Home Destruction

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

See: http://www.nps.gov/miss/features/factoids/watershed.html which BTW 
misuses the word 'factoid' (one of my pet peeves).

At 10:08 PM 9/3/2004 -0400, Leslie Booher wrote:
>But isn't Wyoming on the other side of the Continental Divide?  The 
>Mississippi River starts in Lake Itasca, Minnesota.  How would the soil 
>get from Wyoming to Minnesota?  Through the Missouri River?  I've read 
>that the bulk of the water in the Mississippi River comes from the Ohio, 
>anyway, and that it should be called the Ohio from Cairo, Illinois, to New 
>Orleans.  Nonetheless, we were happy to receive it in Greenville, 
>Mississippi.  anklebear
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>Actually the delta is Wyoming washed down the river. The mountains in 
>Wyoming were at one point 60,000 feet high, they eroded down and the 
>remains are the delta plus a good bit of Mississippi surrounding states.
>
>Bryan