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Sort of on topic, here a great 2011 article by Weather Underground's Jeff Masters on one of the major control structures on the Mississippi that prevents it fro
by euroclydon 11y ago
Sort of on topic, here a great 2011 article by Weather Underground's Jeff Masters on one of the major control structures on the Mississippi that prevents it from taking a more direct route to the Gulf of Mexico:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1801 http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?en...
- ghaff 11y agoAlso check out John McPhee's Control of Nature on the topic.
- mturmon 11y agoSeconded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature Also in that book: efforts to stop volcano lava flow by massed firehoses in Iceland, and sedimentation and rainfall in the San Gabriel mountains above LA. 100% worthwhile.