TC travels, 2014 TR, Pg 904, 2015 TR pg 964
Table of Contents Our 2009 travels started here on March 1, 2009 The first pictures appeared at page 15. We couldn't get our data card to work with our new computer. New Orleans and the Bayou c...
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Just a short geography note here.
I worked the border many times in the Brownsville area. The Rio Grande is almost used up as it enters the Gulf of Mexico by all the irrigation water taken out of it.
Fact, by the time it goes past Brownsville, it is no more than a large creek.
Final note, as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, there's a large amount of sand there dropped by the river as it forms it's small delta. Few years back, the Rio Grande got so low it failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico for some time.
Amazing because when first discovered, the Rio Grande at it's ending in the Gulf of Mexico (Texas-Mexico border) was described as large as the Nile River in Egypt. At one time, ocean going ships would go upriver to Brownsville.
No more. Just not enough flow.
I worked the border many times in the Brownsville area. The Rio Grande is almost used up as it enters the Gulf of Mexico by all the irrigation water taken out of it.
Fact, by the time it goes past Brownsville, it is no more than a large creek.
Final note, as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, there's a large amount of sand there dropped by the river as it forms it's small delta. Few years back, the Rio Grande got so low it failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico for some time.
Amazing because when first discovered, the Rio Grande at it's ending in the Gulf of Mexico (Texas-Mexico border) was described as large as the Nile River in Egypt. At one time, ocean going ships would go upriver to Brownsville.
No more. Just not enough flow.
