[DManA]

Half the continent drains through this tiny channel in La. The force if the water flowing there now really is inconceivable.

[muawiyah]

And again, over half that water flows through a tiny channel at Cairo where the far more voluminous Ohio joins the Mississippi.

So why, you might ask, are there people living in New Orleans and Cairo, and that would be a good question. Cairo is in a long term state of serious decay and depopulation. Paducah and Evansville, far safer from the river's course, have taken on the burdens of human commerce in the Delta.