Steely Dan
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What a bonehead. Since I live in upstate New York I love Niagara Falls related stuff. I've been on the maid of the mist and have seen the falls from the Canadian side many times. I also took a speed boat type thing that went up the Niagara river to the whirlpool and back, it was cool as hell. It's breath taking. What's really amazing is that the amount of water you see going over the falls is about half of what went over them before the old power station was installed by Tesla, IIRC. A lot of the water is diverted by a new power plant.
Also, in the 60's (?) they shut off the falls because it was beginning to break up, move upstream quickly, and leave large rocks at the bottom. They reinforced it so it wouldn't wear back as quickly. So all of the people who went over the falls in barrels were doing so before the falls started breaking up and now the people going over have large rocks to hit. That's why not many people do it anymore. Well that and it's illegal.
All of that is from memory so please forgive me if I have some facts wrong. I'm sure they'll cover a lot of what I said in the pre-show on ABC at 8pm EST.
Anyhoo, what a bonehead.
Also, in the 60's (?) they shut off the falls because it was beginning to break up, move upstream quickly, and leave large rocks at the bottom. They reinforced it so it wouldn't wear back as quickly. So all of the people who went over the falls in barrels were doing so before the falls started breaking up and now the people going over have large rocks to hit. That's why not many people do it anymore. Well that and it's illegal.
All of that is from memory so please forgive me if I have some facts wrong. I'm sure they'll cover a lot of what I said in the pre-show on ABC at 8pm EST.
Anyhoo, what a bonehead.