The Chicago Eiver used to flow into Lake Michigan. They reversed its flow and now it ends up in the Mississippi.

Jun 14, 2022
1:55:52pm

Cougar-Duck Murderbot

The new river flow crosses the continental divide.

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Highest Flood level ever recorded

jxncoog All-American

6/14/22 1:23pm

Where does that water flow to? The snake river?

RdF3

6/14/22 1:23pm

Missouri river I believe.

neboutefan

6/14/22 1:24pm

Yup. Yellowstone drains the east side of the divide unfortunately.

fulano

6/14/22 1:25pm

Bummer. Instead of helping fill reservoirs in the West, it'll contribute to

squidmark

6/14/22 1:30pm

Where is Hercules when you need him?

LifeLongLakerFan

6/14/22 1:35pm

RE: Where does that water flow to? The snake river?

Joe Banks

6/14/22 1:26pm

Can they direct any of that to lake Powell?

Big12Yfan

6/14/22 1:24pm

Missouri river drainage? The continental divide would like a word.

fulano

6/14/22 1:26pm

The Continental Divide would like to show you that the Yellowstone river flows

BYU I Bleed Blue

6/14/22 1:29pm

yes...I think we're saying the same thing

fulano

6/14/22 1:30pm

You’re not. It’s not close.

SuperTank

6/14/22 1:33pm

The continental divide reading this

letthewookieewin

6/14/22 1:27pm

RE: Can they direct any of that to lake Powell?

cougfanblue

6/14/22 1:28pm

They can, yes. They’d have to dig holes through mountains, but it can be done.

SuperTank

6/14/22 1:30pm

I picture it looking something like this

supertux

6/14/22 1:41pm

RE: They can, yes. They’d have to dig holes through mountains, but it can

BYUheaven

6/14/22 1:55pm

The Chicago Eiver used to flow into Lake Michigan. They reversed its flow and now it ends up in the Mississippi.

Cougar-Duck

6/14/22 1:55pm

I saw that the Yellowstone River registered at over 40,000 CFS on one gauge

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