[at-l] Frances and Home Destruction

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

Yeah, if they called the Missouri branch the Mississippi then the river
would be the longest river in the world.

Bryan.

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--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
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