Niagara Falls may slow to a trickle [snip]

FoxBoston ^ | Jan 25, 2016 | Cox Media Group National Content Desk

[Daffynition]

Gotta all the bugs outta the systems

[cripplecreek]

Upper Peninsula is UP north from me.

[PeterPrinciple]

Happened before:

http://www.niagarafrontier.com/fallsstopped.html

[Daffynition]

1911

[PeterPrinciple]

Interesting pictures of 1969 here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338793/Niagara-Falls-ran-dry-Photos-moment-iconic-waterfall-came-standstilll.html

[cyclotic]

Right, but as someone else mentioned, it’s just tannins from the trees.

Too many people think the Flint River is full of lead when the real problem is in the lead pipe infrastructure that was exacerbated by the acidity in the water.

If you want to see real tannins, check out the Suwanee River in Florida. I was snorkeling in a crystal clear spring and ventured into the river. Visibility went instantly from almost unlimited to almost zero. It was pretty cool being underwater and seeing a brown wall shooting by.

[dfwgator]

NIAGARA FALLS! Slowly I turned....step...by...step....inch...by....inch......

[dainbramaged]

I have an old photo of me and my first wife standing by that sign in 1974. They don’t call that area the “scablands” for nothing.

[Daffynition]

On the way to the Grand Coulee Dam?

I admire the drama of the landscapes *out west*.

[Daffynition]

Looks like *home*

[Daffynition]

[Idaho_Cowboy]

If you want to see real tannins, check out the Suwanee River in Florida.

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Where you visiting the old folks at home?

[dainbramaged]

I admire the drama of the landscapes *out west*
We had just been to Grand Coulee Dam if I remember - that region of the state was scoured down to basalt bedrock by the Lake Missoula flood thousands of years ago.
http://www.gonorthwest.com/Washington/northeast/Dry_Falls.htm

[cyclotic]

Sort of. My wife’s Grandfather abandoned his family when my FIL was a young boy. He ended up down there living in a house on the Suwanee. He left it in his will to my FIL and we were down there with them on vacation about 20 years ago. I’ve never seen a more redneck place than Dixie County, Florida.