• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    The mississippi is artificially kept to its current course, and if left to its own devices, would soon shift to joining with a totally different river, leaving the lower mississippi almost totally dry.

    There’s also civil war era shipwrecks in the middle of cornfields because the river has arbitrarily changed course.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      9 days ago

      “lower Mississippi” is way too vague. The only area that would really be affected is Southern Louisiana