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June 2, 2023

#2784: Drainage Basins explain

Drainage Basins

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[Title, scribbled out in red:] US Drainage Basins

[New title, in red, added below:] Where Alex Mack Will End Up

[Map of the United States, the state borders in light pen; the national borders, seaboards and major lakes in black pen, plus additional boundaries as appropriate between the following labeled drainage basins:]

[Much or all of Washington, Idaho, Oregon, California, Arizona and about half of Utah:] Pacific Ocean

[Hawaiian islands, in typical US map repositioning:] Pacific Ocean

[Alaska, in typical map repositioning, below a line approximately the three quarters up from the south:] Pacific Ocean

[Remainder of Alaska:] Arctic Ocean

[Most of Nevada, the western half of Utah (including the Great Salt Lake, outlined) and about a third of California (with the Salton Sea outlined):] Great Basin

[A small patch of Wyoming, a triangle of New Mexico lying on the Mexican border and a separate thin swath through parts of New Mexico and Texas:] Various Basins

[About half of North Dakota and a small section of northern Minnesota:] Hudson Bay

[From northeast Minnesota across two thirds of Wisconsin, Michigan, a bit of northern Indiana, northern half of Ohio, and most of the eastern seaboard states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Long Island, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia (not West Virginia), North and South Carolinas, half of Georgia and half of Florida (Lake Okeechobee visible):] Atlantic Ocean

[All remaining states or parts of states:] Gulf of Mexico

[Caption below the panel:]

How I still think of these maps, deep down