Posted on 06/16/2010 4:00:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The yuppies are in Colorado ... it’s the Okie rednecks down here ... LOL ...
as long as fools are buying bottled water, we are not in recession
To put this in persepctive, 65 million gallons a year is about the average annual rainfall in the eastern cornbelt on one 60 acre field.
Why are people so upset? No one buys water - we only rent it.
so true. And test after test, at least here in O’Fallon, MO, it has been proven that our tap water is more pure than that crap in those plastic bottles.
Right now, since we've had a lot of rain recently, it's got plenty of water, but it does go down to almost nothing it seems, at times ... :-)
Here's a map link to the section that I see all the time ... you can put it on satellite view and see how wide it is here. It shows water in there in the satellite picture, but there are times when it's pretty much sand across the entire river ... :-)
I should say that I’m used to the Columbia River, in Oregon and Washington and the Willamette River, as it goes through Portland ... when I came back to Tulsa, it was hard to call the Arkansas River a “river” ... LOL ...
“I should say that I’m used to the Columbia River, in Oregon and Washington and the Willamette River, as it goes through Portland ... when I came back to Tulsa, it was hard to call the Arkansas River a “river” ... LOL ...”
When I moved to Longmont, Colorado from Tennessee I got my first look at the ‘Mighty’ St. Vrain River. I had a creek behind my house in Tennessee that was bigger than this ‘river’. Of course when you move to a place that semi-arid your perspective changes.
Lol..... but yes!
Pretty expensive too!
I'm in BA. Ocassionally it looks like a river. Normally it looks like a series of mud puddles.
I doubt we'll notice much difference when they start taking water out.
I'd like to see them build some dams to keep water in it, especially through Jenks (which is where I am when I see it).
I'd like to see them build some dams to keep water in it, especially through Jenks (which is where I am when I see it).
Yeah, I think I've heard "some talk" about building another "low-water dam" a bit further on downstream from the one which is at the railroad bridge over by the PSO facility (close to 31st Street) ... the Midland Valley Trail & River Parks Pedestrian Bridge.
I don't know how far along the "talk" is, though ... :-)
I remember a lot of controversy about it. Tulsans didn’t want to pay whatever tax was going to fund it. And truthfully, I don’t get over to Jenks often enough for it to make a difference, but if they had a river river, they could make it a nice place to be. I grew up on the Ohio River in southern Indiana and the river is a big attraction.
In a word, “yes.”
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