I was thinking of starting a thread that may be very interesting This is after all "chit chat"
So, you have to share an interesting photo from where you are in the world.
BUT
It must be a photo you took yourself - no Google pictures!
You must provide a short description/story behind the photo..
I will go first!
This is our church (I took the photo on the left). The picture on the right was taken 138 years ago. Back in 1885 it took the farmers in the surrounding areas many days to travel to church, so they will then 'camp' in front of the church a few days early whilst awaiting the sermon that was held once every two or three months. My mom was the organist here for many years.
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Sunrise from my front yard, over the church that is next door, about 10 days ago. I was going solely off the church reference (no pun intended!) This is looking east, from the Connecticut shoreline (8 miles in and 275 feet elevation) - so basically this is sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean!
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Riverbed Road in Cleveland, Ohio in 2009. This was once a tumultuous area known as "Irishtown Bend" where there were many bars mixed in with flophouses, heavy industry and the Erie Railroad which ran down the right side of the road. The railroad was abandoned in the early-'80s and the last of the buildings were demolished around then as well. The road was closed around 1990 when the whole hillside began sliding into the river (just beyond the trees on the right) and up until just a few weeks ago there was a substantial homeless encampment just out of sight down the road. This area is now being turned into a city park.
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Here's a picture of a road in Idaho. I chose it because of the superficial similarity to what Homer posted. There's a bike in it, a road collapse...and a homeless camp down the....no wait, that's just a town in Idaho.
This road is not closed. Whether or not it will be repaired remains to be seen.
That's not as appealing as you might think. I LIKE fall. It's my favorite season. Temps of 35 in late September is kind of crazy.
On the other hand, I lived in the Florida Keys, which are tiny islands surrounded by a warm, shallow, sea. The temperature is 32 C...all the bloody time!
Your 35 is very different than my 35 as we have discussed before because we have low humidity, at night,as the was picture taken, will drop from 30 and also been near the sea makes it even more tolerable.
So it's as appealing as I think.
Sunrise from my front yard, over the church that is next door, about 10 days ago. I was going solely off the church reference (no pun intended!) This is looking east, from the Connecticut shoreline (8 miles in and 275 feet elevation) - so basically this is sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean!
Also another interesting thing from Halkida is that the waters change direction every 6 hours.
This is the bridge that connects Haldika and all of Evia island to the mainland
Serious question, where you are is a defective road so rare that you take photo's of it?
In my case, the answer is a definite 'maybe'. Idaho is very mountainous and interestingly unstable. It isn't prone to earthquakes, but has rocks that are not all that strong, soil that is thin, and fairly sparse vegetation. The combination of these features means that landslides, slumps, spontaneous erosion events, and other oddities are pretty common. Normally, roads are fairly well built, so road slumps like the one shown are not common. However, when they do occur, there's usually something geologically interesting about them.
In the case of that picture, there were a couple reasons for taking it. I really couldn't capture what I wanted to capture, which was the unusual process that resulted in that slump. The fact that it had happened, and the county had decided not to even attempt to repair it in what was clearly a pretty long time (a couple years, at least) for a road that was deemed important enough to pave, was kind of interesting, but I was mostly intrigued by the cause of the slump.
To the right of the picture was a fairly small stream that appeared to be pretty stable, though down in a modestly sized canyon. It didn't appear that the slump was a result of on going erosion from the stream digging into the hillside, so it appeared to have just been the result of a structural failure in the underlying substrate. Those are not common.
Also another interesting thing from Halkida is that the waters change direction every 6 hours.
Why is that interesting? Isn't that just called "tides"?
At my sister's place, you can go kayaking with the tides. You travel in one direction for a few hours, and then when the tide turns, you head back the way you came. Doing otherwise would be very difficult, as the tidal currents are quite strong.
I go kayaking in a tidal river nearby ... I try to time it so that the tide is still coming in when I set off and head up river. Then usually about hte point where I'm forced to turn around... the tide is in and still, or it's already turned and is on its way out. It's hard to gauge sometimes as the nearest tide monitor is several miles down river, and there's also a delay the further inland. So it could already be on its way out down river, but 5 miles up near where I am, it's still coming in... kind of a weird lag.
Why is that interesting? Isn't that just called "tides"?
At my sister's place, you can go kayaking with the tides. You travel in one direction for a few hours, and then when the tide turns, you head back the way you came. Doing otherwise would be very difficult, as the tidal currents are quite strong.
To bored to search and just bash the messenger kinda thing?
I don't remember exactly. Looks like it doesn't have a highway number. It was on a road between Kooskia and Pierce. Those appear to have county numbers, at best.
I'm out of upload space, so you'll just have to imagine the photos from the mass alien encounter here at a picnic park on July 4th. They only look a little like big-headed wiener dogs with hands walking on hind legs in tinfoil coveralls.
"Pink sky at night sailor delight, pink sky in morn, sailor be warned." or something like that. I think it was a big weather system coming up the coast from Florida that was lighting the morning sky up like that.
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It's usually red sky, but either one is referring to the same thing.
Of course, there's also the school phrase: "Pink eye at night, ophthalmologist's delight, pink eye in the morning, you'll be sent home with a warning."
The guy clearly had a serious history with guns and crime and mental illness. Of course media opinion is that the gun was at fault, not the shooter. The scariest part is the cavalier attitude toward having people in his situation roaming loose in society. "Just suck it up" I guess, "wait your turn."
as far as i understood the story is as follows: on Feb. 3rd a train with a quite huge amount of quite toxic chemicals derailed in ~5k souls town of East Palestine. The chemicals spilled and containing and cleaning the stuff would have taken a long time and cost alot of money.
So in order to get the railroad free again, they decided to do a "controlled burn" of the the toxic chemicals. What a great idea, what could possibly go wrong? Well, the stuff exploded.
Residents were asked to evacuate and officials said its precaution, everything is fine, no worries. But now wild life animals start dying and the toxics are now in the nearby river where fish started dying.
It appears to be quite a huge desaster and the stuff in the air and river poisoning quite some area. It should have been covered by media headlines but nope, balloons are the top story. Theres also one journalist being arrested who tried to report from a townhall meeting.
Only now, more than 10 days later we start to learn about these things through social media.
the above is what i picked up from the story, so might not be 100% accurate. Reminds me a bit of chernobyl: "no, there is no accident, everything is under control" until they could not deny it any longer.
edit: oh yeah, fun fact: the company responsible offered 5 bucks compensation for each resident
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Moving back on topic(ish) Sunset over the lake (Lac du Tolerme) by my family holiday home in France. We have had the house in the south of France for over 20 years, and we go out nearly every year.
The lake is actually man made, in that they took a valley with a river running through it and dammed it up at one end and flooded it. The next year they imported sand and created a beach, then a bar, and boats and stuff.
This lake is 5 minutes walk from our front door, and hold so many memories for me as I have been visiting it almost since it was created, plus its just a beautiful place to visit day or night plus they have public BBQ & Picnic areas which we have used a lot.
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as far as i understood the story is as follows: on Feb. 3rd a train with a quite huge amount of quite toxic chemicals derailed in ~5k souls town of East Palestine. The chemicals spilled and containing and cleaning the stuff would have taken a long time and cost alot of money.
So in order to get the railroad free again, they decided to do a "controlled burn" of the the toxic chemicals. What a great idea, what could possibly go wrong? Well, the stuff exploded.
Residents were asked to evacuate and officials said its precaution, everything is fine, no worries. But now wild life animals start dying and the toxics are now in the nearby river where fish started dying.
It appears to be quite a huge desaster and the stuff in the air and river poisoning quite some area. It should have been covered by media headlines but nope, balloons are the top story. Theres also one journalist being arrested who tried to report from a townhall meeting.
Only now, more than 10 days later we start to learn about these things through social media.
the above is what i picked up from the story, so might not be 100% accurate. Reminds me a bit of chernobyl: "no, there is no accident, everything is under control" until they could not deny it any longer.
edit: oh yeah, fun fact: the company responsible offered 5 bucks compensation for each resident
It actually WAS covered, and was covered at the time it was happening. I knew about all the parts of this that aren't distorted, except for the fish kill. Of course, that part isn't surprising. If you pour darn near anything into streams it will kill fish. Heck, if you don't pour anything at all into streams, it will still kill fish. Several years back, when I was living on the Snake River, I headed home one day and found that stench of rotting fish quite pungent. That was just low oxygen.
Some spot event causing a localized fish kill is so common, pretty much anywhere, that it's usually unremarkable. I thought there was some larger Ohio thing going on.
Funny, in your first post about it, it looked like you did not have any idea on what happened.
So it's was either a low ball explanation or we cover up the media again.
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..Ok...That sounded like I was attacking you. I wasn't but that media media all hail the true media is a jump and dance topic.
Funny, in your first post about it, it looked like you did not have any idea on what happened.
So it's was either a low ball explanation or we cover up the media again.
I hadn't heard about a fish kill, but then again...fish die so doggone easily, I'm not surprised I hadn't heard about it. Pretty much any spill results in a fish kill if whatever was spilled gets to water that contains fish.
One of my favorite visitors to my backyard! I served him some sushi that day, lol!
I once fed a French Grunt to a pelican, which was happy to receive the offering. Grunts get their name because they grunt (go figure...and don't ask me how hog chokers got named). So, the pelican was sitting there on the water with it's belly grunting.
Moving back on topic(ish) Sunset over the lake (Lac du Tolerme) by my family holiday home in France. We have had the house in the south of France for over 20 years, and we go out nearly every year.
The lake is actually man made, in that they took a valley with a river running through it and dammed it up at one end and flooded it. The next year they imported sand and created a beach, then a bar, and boats and stuff.
This lake is 5 minutes walk from our front door, and hold so many memories for me as I have been visiting it almost since it was created, plus its just a beautiful place to visit day or night plus they have public BBQ & Picnic areas which we have used a lot.
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