Canals in Missouri?

Kennett is one of my regular fuel stops. I had always assumed the
canals had something to do with irrigation. Lots of cotton grown
there. Rice a little farther south.

Biggest danged drainage system I've seen. They make the locks in
Sault.Ste Marie look like drainage ditches.

When the canal you're looking at stretches from horizon to horizon in
an absolutely straight line -- and you're at 7500 feet -- you know
someone has spent some tax dollars.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Mar 18, 5:17 am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
Kennett is one of my regular fuel stops. I had always assumed the
canals had something to do with irrigation. Lots of cotton grown
there. Rice a little farther south.

Biggest danged drainage system I've seen. They make the locks in
Sault.Ste Marie look like drainage ditches.

When the canal you're looking at stretches from horizon to horizon in
an absolutely straight line -- and you're at 7500 feet -- you know
someone has spent some tax dollars.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Awww, all those little duckies lost their swampy homes.
Probably made floods on the Mississippi all that much worse, too.
Bet they couldn't get that project approved today!

Originally Posted by Jay Honeck

you know someone has spent some tax dollars.

--
Jay Honeck

And there you have succinctly stated the real purpose of the ditches: bringing pork home to your constituents (if by constituents you understand me to mean contributors.)

The farm fields of eastern Arkysaw are incredibly fertile and productive because they have been regularly flooded for uncounted centuries. Displaying depressingly typical human wisdom, the farmers demanded that their representatives do something about the spring floods. The representatives threw money at the Corps of Engineers and the Corps happily consolidated and straighted out all those messy creeks and rivers.

Guess who's now spending more on fertilizer and irrigation?

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