Paul, you'll like this.
Watch the video first:
When I lived in KC, I always took out of town visitors to that museum if they hadn't already been there. It's quite interesting, but most people may not know that only a small percentage of the recovered material is actually on display. The rest is being meticulously cleaned and prepared in a back room. You can see that room if you ask.
The river didn't just do an "exit stage left". The boat sunk and created a jetty and the mud piled up behind it. the river found an easy channel another way and that was where the water went but the bar was still in the natural flow so the silt kept piling up there where the water switched directions. I see things like that in my river after every big storm, just from overloading the natural flow with a massive infusion of water. Sand piles up in places it normally isn't. The difference there isn't a big boat there to upset the natural flow so my river ends up resuming it's natural course after a while.
I think you're saying in this case it didn't, and you've pretty much convinced me. Your explanation below makes sense.
But it is possible for a channel to change suddenly. I've seen it myself in the stream next to my house, several times. Something will clog one channel and it will move to the other, then it will unclog during a later flood and it will switch back. Sometimes the water flows through both channels and sometimes it's one or the other.
There's an island in the middle that I'm trying to name Micky Island, or maybe use my last name.
I looked into sending it in to google maps, but darn, they want evidence. Is there some way I can forge some evidence and get google maps to show the island as named after me? (There is a placid, wide spot 100 yards upstream I want to call a lake after my good friend, ex-girlfriend. She really doesn't care but if it works for my island, I'll do it for her too. I just need to know how to convince google.) There are no other named things right there, so there's plenty of room on the map for some text.
What will google do to me if they catch me? What will Maryland do?
I could just put up a sign but no one else goes there. I have a bunch of neighbors, but though they spend time on their lawn, bushes, and flowers, no one seems to care about natural plants.
You have to google bomb google. If enough people are willing to say that's the name, it will be the name. I am doing the same thing with the "Julian Keen Memorial Gopher Tortoise Sanctuary". (The FPL right of way behind my house and a 300 foot peninsula toward the river)
What do you mean?
Ahhhh. Is this what you meant by google bombing google? Have others also contact google and repeat the same names as micky and yourself are already using for the piece of land you want google to recognize?
Very nice. Please forgive our ignorance but we know very little about turtles or tortoise. We have box turtles here if that tells you anything. And none of us knows very much about them either. We all stop if we see one in the road to move it safely off to the side so another vehicle doesn't hit it...
Nice photograph too.
Gopher tortoises are a keystone species here and threatened by development. They can get a foot or more across the carapace. This is #5. I usually have a half dozen individuals here I watch over.
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