Interesting Microsoft OneDrive Memory from this Day showed up in my email this morning. Interesting due to being timely regarding news I read this morning about a similar thing in my current Wichita Falls location.
Wichita Falls is named after a waterfall on the Wichita River which disappeared way back in the late 1800s. Wiped out by a flood. One can walk by the location of the former waterfall via the Circle Trail. There is a sign letting you know you are at the location of the former waterfall.
So, after the Wichita River waterfall disappeared the town did not opt to remove "Falls" from its name, and just go by Wichita. Perhaps not wanting to be confused with the Wichita in Kansas.
After a century of visitors to Wichita Falls asking where the waterfall was the town decided to spend a few million bucks building an artificial waterfall. The artificial waterfall is prominently seen whilst driving by on the main freeway which passes through Wichita Falls.
However.
The artificial Wichita Falls waterfall is frequently turned off, which sort of defeats its purpose. The problem is the water for the artificial waterfall is sucked from the frequently super muddy Wichita River. The mud mucks up the pumping system, hence the frequent maintenance shutdowns.
So, the waterfall news referenced in the first paragraph above is the Wichita City Council is considering hiring some sort of engineering firm to analyze what needs to be done to renovate the Wichita Falls artificial waterfall.
Which takes us to the photo at the top which showed up this morning in my emails. That is a view of the entry to the Tulalip Casino Resort, in Marysville, in my old home state of Washington. The entry features a big realistic looking waterfall.
The Wichita Falls City Council should find out who built that Tulalip Casino waterfall and hire them to upgrade the Wichita Falls artificial waterfall.
Changing the subject, slightly, if you are ever in Washington, driving north of Seattle on I-5, it is well worth it to get off the freeway when you come to the Tulalip Casino exit, clearly visible from the freeway.
The interior of the casino is made to make it seem like you are underwater.
The exterior of the Tulalip Casino has water features in addition to the waterfall.
Such as Orcas, also known as Killer Whales, frolicking in the replicated sea.
And a large statue of a Tulalip tribe member spearing salmon, by another waterfall.
There are a couple casinos a few miles north of my Wichita Falls location, on the north side of the Red River, in Oklahoma.
I have been to the closest one, the Apache Casino. There is a large parking lot in front of the casino, but nothing of the spectacular sort one sees at the Tulalip Casino in Marysville, Washington....
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