I hate this little @$$ river
Rhamlin
Posts: 9,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
The Great Kenawa River
5
Rhamlin
Posts: 9,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
Comments
why? too snaky, too hard to navigate, shoals?
Anyone can run that big, wide water. Ya gots to be GOOD to run them criks..😀😀
It’s narrow, snaky and only 84 miles that we can run. I see the same thing every day. It’s just a long harbor.
What you need is Mr. Mike Walker to come show ya how it's done.
Had a cigar customer ran a tug on the Tanana in Alaska. Four foot ice from October until May... then just four or five months to get everything done for the year... with lives on the line. Shifting gravel bars, marshes, and islands. The guy couldn't stand cello on his gars cause he didn't have the time or attention to peel a gar while driving.
Consider yourself lucky.
Haven't heard from the old guy for a while. Wonder what happened.
^^^ That's the river that runs thru here. It joins the Yukon in Tanana, a village about an hour from here by air. That looks like North Pole in the picture. It's too big to be any of the other villages on the Tanana and not big enough to be Fairbanks.
According to the pic caption, it's sposed to be the Tanana river at Fairbanks, which the map says is 50 miles upstream of the confluence w/ the Yukon at Nenana. But I've never been there. All I know is, it looks easy to run aground. People must spend a fortune shipping necessaries in that state.
What a fun way to make a living, tho, running a river like that.
@Rhamlin buddy how have you been? See you are still navigating the waters.
@webmost, the caption's incorrect. The Nenana River runs into the Tanana at Nenana, The Tanana joins the Yukon in Tanana, a hundred or so miles downstream of Nenana. I enlarged the picture and, yes, that's Fairbanks. The Tanana's a hard river to run. It changes almost weekly due to massive amounts of glacial silt in the water. It's really, really cold, really shallow and if you fall in, you have about a minute and a half before your clothes fill with silt & you sink.
So you should take off your clothes before falling in, is what you're sayin'?
You don't have to ask Ricky twice.
Yes sir. 38 years now. I keep hearing about this thing called retirement. Might have to find out what that’s all about.
@Rhamlin would never...
This retirement thing ain't bad. I retired after 30 years in law enforcement, after three years as a Fraud Investigator, after five years as Director of Surveillance at a casino and finally after16 years of teaching college. I'm finally unemployed
It's nice having nothing you have to do other than doctor's appointments. You'll get to spend some time with the bride.
I miss work.
I’ve done a lot worse. Believe me😖
OK, I miss teaching. I'll probably go back in six months, when it's allowed. The kids keep me young.
"Hold my beer..."
I think that may have been the issue
Do tell......
You’ll have to wait until I’m on the herf with some scotch
FIFY
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.