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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (12 children)

How the fuck do you cram 257 rivers into a space that size? Like, we can't even manage the Colorado (no, the other one ... how we have one flowing through Austin escapes me).

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I don't know what counts as a major stream, but usually streams are smaller than creeks, and creeks can be pretty small. So if there are 255 water courses that are smaller than creeks... I can see it.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

    ..and major streams. Don't forget major streams!
    I don't know shit though, I just pulled that from Wikipedia to support a really bad pun.🤣

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    I think "major streams" are more generally referred to as "rivers."

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe it's a translation issue, we have

    • rivers
    • streams
    • creeks
    • Brooks and
    • runs

    ...

    Maybe they just have the 2 words so there's information lost in translation?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That's a wildly incomplete list. I guess if you're out east, that might feel like a full list, but if you've ever lived somewhere with arroyos, you've never experienced brooks or runs. I mean, short of Mel Brooks and having diarrhea.

    There's an old joke about growing up in Phoenix: That one does not associate rivers or bridges with water.

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