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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsClick to drop a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous United States and watch where it ends up
This is kinda fun
https://river-runner.samlearner.com/
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)Thanks for posting!
brer cat
(24,562 posts)Kaleva
(36,298 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)Wish I had had that when I was teaching Earth Science - of course now too many in the class wouldn't believe it anyhow....
hlthe2b
(102,247 posts)as expected in Colorado. While everything west of the divide ends up in Colorado River to Mexico.
Pretty cool, though.
Nittersing
(6,361 posts)hlthe2b
(102,247 posts)Lochloosa
(16,064 posts)2naSalit
(86,586 posts)I could have used that for my presentations back when I was giving them about the ecosystem.
Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)Kali
(55,007 posts)just before it went in to the San Pedro River it diverted UPHILL into an old irrigation ditch and went south a couple miles before entering the river at the intake of the ditch. oops.
caraher
(6,278 posts)I dropped one near my house and it did something very irrelevant... moved the starting point and just followed some river several miles away, when I'm practically on the body of water it showed it going to
Hekate
(90,674 posts)Theres a wonderful topo map of my neighborhood, and hubby expanded it even further to show the roof of our house, realtor-style.
caraher
(6,278 posts)I could zoom in to my house just fine. But when it ran the simulation it displaced my raindrop a few miles in generating that path!
Hekate
(90,674 posts)
that doesnt show the houses. It was my husband who was trying to orient me better.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Moebym
(989 posts)luv2fly
(2,475 posts)So does this also apply to my late night pees outside with my dog?
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,689 posts)doing into to the Colorado River.
For those who don't know, there is a basin between the Continental Divide that splits the divide. If you were to fill it with water, ther would be a huge lake in south central Wyoming.
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)We're surrounded by the Great Lakes so it's really fun to try different areas of the state.
Kimber432
(74 posts)some far off place and thought, "Nah, won't happen". Now I know it can. This is awesome! Thanks for sharing it!!!
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Hekate
(90,674 posts)Just emailed it to hubby so I can hang on to my iPad after showing him!
ybbor
(1,554 posts)Saving for later
twodogsbarking
(9,740 posts)2,472 km to the gulf. Quite a ride.
Rebl2
(13,498 posts)On a spot near KCMO and took forever to go down the mo river to Mississippi River to the gulf.
jaxexpat
(6,820 posts)Click in Utah and Nevada to find the dead ends of a "Great Basin" system. It does tend to accept the closest data-based-included creek for the first leg of the drainage journey. I remember when I was a very young man reading a "Historic Marker" on a pretty isolated road in Potter County, PA. It said "Spring near here is origin of Allegheny river which flows into Ohio and then Mississippi rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. I could go on and on. It's a nerdish preoccupation.
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)It shows it going into Black Creek, then an "unnamed river/stream" then into Piney Z Lake - but the path it traces flows into Copeland Sink, which is known to connect underground into one of the springs for the St. Marks River.
Granted, the watershed south of here is very complicated with the various underground caverns that open into springs, but the path is is well known for this short watershed. This is one of the reasons I want to make my farm a conservation area and we made the subdivision behind us put a conservation easement on all the lowland that flows into Black Creek.