Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[krayzie]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Forget the headlights on the 17s it is the tail lights that are blinding. When Ultra and I were following @johan through Portland we actually winced every time he stepped on the brakes. The tail lights alone were bad but those freakin' brake lights are bright!

Same issue whenever I'm behind an Infiniti G37.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Here, we get a crazy weather of cold and hot and back to cold. 3 days ago's snow storm did get bout 1~2 feet of snow in the valley (prob over 4 feet up in the mountain), but next 2 days it got sunny and warm (+40 degree). result most of the snow melted. We rarely get more than 3 feet of snow in the valley and when we do, everyone thinks it's an armageddon

Same here but the plowed snow usually lasts through the warm spells.


Sometimes hard to realize that I am only 2 degrees north of you


You - 40.7608° N
Me - 42.9849° N


If I could drive straight down to you it would only be about a two hour drive at 70 mph.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Same here but the plowed snow usually lasts through the warm spells.


Sometimes hard to realize that I am only 2 degrees north of you


You - 40.7608° N
Me - 42.9849° N


If I could drive straight down to you it would only be about a two hour drive at 70 mph.

Well, I'm surrounded by mountains, so weather will be totally different from you.

Really? Only 2 degrees? But realistically speaking it'll be 6~7hrs drive?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Well, I'm surrounded by mountains, so weather will be totally different from you.

Really? Only 2 degrees? But realistically speaking it'll be 6~7hrs drive?

Yep and I am surrounded by lakes so that impacts it as well.
There are roughly 70 miles between each degree of latitude. This of course varies slightly depend on where you are on the curve but is close enough. So if I could drive in a straight line (or fly I guess) at 70 mph it would only be two hours.

[akapero]

Northern Utah also has the lake effect from the Great Salt Lake, so that affects the snow amounts as well.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Yep and I am surrounded by lakes so that impacts it as well.
There are roughly 70 miles between each degree of latitude. This of course varies slightly depend on where you are on the curve but is close enough. So if I could drive in a straight line (or fly I guess) at 70 mph it would only be two hours.

Fly, prob take an hr or so. specially it's only 140 miles or so difference.

Originally Posted by akapero

Northern Utah also has the lake effect from the Great Salt Lake, so that affects the snow amounts as well.

Yup... but tbh I feel smog-effect more in the valley

[MrFisty]

Originally Posted by Cole

So never in your life have you took a glance?

Sounds like moral high ground bullshit to me.

I guess you can't fucking read.

EDIT: I said that you can't brush it aside by claiming I've asserted a moral high ground. In nearly any standard of ethics, that makes absolutely no sense.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by akapero

Northern Utah also has the lake effect from the Great Salt Lake, so that affects the snow amounts as well.

Meh. Amateur.


Maps same scale

[MrFisty]

Originally Posted by humfrz

OK, it's Monday morning and our daughter dropped off her three sick daughters.

No school for them today ...... they are scattered around the house, wrapped in blankets.

We have the Wiggle House going on a portable DVD player; "Alexa" is playing some sort of music and the TV is blaring out some sort of high pitched, whiney, pre teen program.

Two hours till nap time ...........


humfrz

You know, I saw this recipe for nyquil popsicles the other day.

[akapero]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Meh. Amateur.


Maps same scale

Touché

[Tcoat]

LOL Unless you have drove around, flew over or boated across them people don't really just how freakin' BIG the Great Lakes are.

[MrFisty]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

LOL Unless you have drove around, flew over or boated across them people don't really just how freakin' BIG the Great Lakes are.

I've learned that, if your travel is limitied, you really tend to learn georgraphy regionally. That is, people from the southern US couldn't put the all the northeastern states on a map. People here in Pittsburgh couldn't tell Alabama from Georgia from Mississippi. Having spent most of my time in the south, I had a lot to learn when I moved up here.

A few months ago, I was flying out to meet the lady friend in Denver. Somehow, I had a connection in Chicago. Never been before, but I knew that it was in the state of Illinois. So, we're flying into the airport, preparing to land, and we cut this bank and all of a sudden I was like "WTF Is this big ass ocean?!"

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

I've learned that, if your travel is limitied, you really tend to learn georgraphy regionally. That is, people from the southern US couldn't put the all the northeastern states on a map. People here in Pittsburgh couldn't tell Alabama from Georgia from Mississippi. Having spent most of my time in the south, I had a lot to learn when I moved up here.

A few months ago, I was flying out to meet the lady friend in Denver. Somehow, I had a connection in Chicago. Never been before, but I knew that it was in the state of Illinois. So, we're flying into the airport, preparing to land, and we cut this bank and all of a sudden I was like "WTF Is this big ass ocean?!"

Most Americans, even those in the Northern States have no clue that much of Canada's population lives well south of them.


A big part of the misconception we are all way north is the way the US map is usually presented.


The white area in the center of the Great Lakes and stretching to the east coast looks like it is just part of them and really small.



When see together with Canada it is obvious that it is actually huge and sticks well down into the US.

[echo419]

true story. iirc Montreal is only like a 2hr flight from Atlanta. it's basically the same as flying to NYC.