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As someone who grew up on the lower Mississippi, and read Mark Twain's autobiographical novel about being a steamboat pilot, this sounds terrifying. Looks like the river is pretty average flow right now fortunately. I had a friend from high school try to do this on a homemade raft (a pretty sizeable thing). It ended up crashing into a bank like 200 miles south of Minneapolis. He got the cops called on him several times (and got local news articles about him!), but he looked like a River Gypsy, so I doubt your friend will have the same issue. Saladman fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Bip Roberts posted:That seems highly unlikely in northern Minnesota. You know he's trying to go down the entire Mississippi right, all the way to Nola? There are a poo poo ton of barges in the lower Mississippi. I'm not sure about water moccasins actually in the main Mississippi, but they're sure everywhere in the feeder rivers further south. Not that he's super likely to get hit by a barge unless he's sleeping in his kayak. Edit: It does in fact look like there are no or very few water moccasins actually in the Mississippi river. Too cold and fast-flowing.
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Jul 11, 2014 11:07
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Oracle posted:Maybe its this nutty chick... Yep that's the guy from my high school I mentioned in my second post. They didn't get hit by a barge though.
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Jul 11, 2014 21:42
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tranten posted:Subscribed. The Mississippi isn't controlled like Colorado through the Grand Canyon... I'd guess he just shits wherever.
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