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<blockquote data-quote="George Harris" data-source="post: 958226" data-attributes="member: 734"><p>I can't help you on where and how to find a place to charge your onewheel. Neither can I help you on finding public restrooms in the area. Since the city tries to promote the downtown strip as a touristy thing, surely there should be some somewhere, but I am only downtown at fairly long intervals and on business to places that have restrooms. To go from Central Station to the Memphis end of the bridge end is a fairly long hike itself, and parts through areas that are not exactly prime areas. To go from the Beale Street streetcar stop to the "Beale Street Landing" location, which is actually a couple blocks south of Beale and Riverside, where the riverboat docks is about a three block walk and not exactly level for the first block down from Main and Beale. </p><p></p><p>Memphis is where it is because it is on a hard clay bluff making it a fairly stable location on the river channel and above floods. Incidentially, the river elevation at low water is only about 190 feet above sea level even though it is around 700 miles by river to the gulf. People quote really fast water speeds, but the reality is that the flow speed varies between less than 2 mph to about 5 to 6 mph. What gets you is the volume of water, which, depending upon upstream rainfall can vary between around 200,000 cubic feet per second to somewhere above 1,200,000 cfs. You don't go swimming in the river unless you have a death wish. Right now the river gauge is 22.8 feet, which means 22.8 feet above lowest water reading. Zero on the gage is 183.91 feet above sea level. Flood stage is 34 feet.</p><p></p><p>(Memphis was named for Memphis, Egypt.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="George Harris, post: 958226, member: 734"] I can't help you on where and how to find a place to charge your onewheel. Neither can I help you on finding public restrooms in the area. Since the city tries to promote the downtown strip as a touristy thing, surely there should be some somewhere, but I am only downtown at fairly long intervals and on business to places that have restrooms. To go from Central Station to the Memphis end of the bridge end is a fairly long hike itself, and parts through areas that are not exactly prime areas. To go from the Beale Street streetcar stop to the "Beale Street Landing" location, which is actually a couple blocks south of Beale and Riverside, where the riverboat docks is about a three block walk and not exactly level for the first block down from Main and Beale. Memphis is where it is because it is on a hard clay bluff making it a fairly stable location on the river channel and above floods. Incidentially, the river elevation at low water is only about 190 feet above sea level even though it is around 700 miles by river to the gulf. People quote really fast water speeds, but the reality is that the flow speed varies between less than 2 mph to about 5 to 6 mph. What gets you is the volume of water, which, depending upon upstream rainfall can vary between around 200,000 cubic feet per second to somewhere above 1,200,000 cfs. You don't go swimming in the river unless you have a death wish. Right now the river gauge is 22.8 feet, which means 22.8 feet above lowest water reading. Zero on the gage is 183.91 feet above sea level. Flood stage is 34 feet. (Memphis was named for Memphis, Egypt.) [/QUOTE]
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