--- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Have none of you guys ever been to Chicago? > > > > I used to live in an apartment building on the river > > that flows from the lake and down the river, out into the > > hinterlands of Illinois. The thing is, it didn't always > > flow that way. The river *used* to flow, as all rivers > > do, downstream into the big lake at the bottom of the > > geographical pit. But at some point the good people of > > Chicago decided that the river was carrying too much > > effluvia and garbage into the lake, so they just > > reversed the motherfucker. It was a remarkable engin- > > eering undertaking, and I salute that, but at the > > same time they messed with the ecology of an entire > > multi-state ecosystem. Who *knows* what the long-term > > effects of that were, or will be? > > I didn't know that and I've spent some time in Chicago. > Do you know how long ago they reversed it, roughly?
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