OCS 4-68, Commanche County Canon Cockers College, Ft Sill, OK ... ;>)
Tell me about it. Serverd with an ARVN Ranger Btn in RVN, and although an Artillery 02 FO at the time, I took every step they took ... well close, they averaged about two steps to my one.
My hat's off to him.
LOL ... I took great comfort in my midnight requistioned M79 Grenade Launcher with buckshot rounds. On a very personal level, it'd put about the same number of projectiles in the air with one shot. :)
In Savannah especially. It's right on the coast.
Most coastal areas in the south are pretty much as flat as Kansas I'd say. When you move inland a bit, it's a different story. Everything is still comparatively flat, but they don't bother to grade the roads as well as they do in higher country. The strange result is that there are actually worse grades to negotiate rolling through, say, the Midlands of South Carolina than one might expect.
If you want warm and flat, you don't have to limit yourself to Florida. Even the Tidewater region of Virginia is fairly warm, and quite flat. I think the ocean has a mitigating effect on snowfall and climate. They get some snow, and some cold, but it's a different world from here in the New River Valley.
I'll have ocean front property here in the mountains of Virginia too. I already have my plan. Christiansburg beach. Nudists only, no fat people. Admission, $5. (I couldn't go onto my own beach, but that's beside the point. :)
Too big for me. Of course, so is Hot-lanta.
Too flat too, and the same applies to both.
I like Georgia though. South Carolina too. I'd consider moving to either of those states for $500,000. It would take $1,000,000 to get me to move to North Carolina, and $65,000,000 to get me into Pennsylvania northwards. For $583,000,000,000 USD I'll even move to Yellow Knife.
Hey, I'm not unwilling to relocate. I'm just demanding. :)
Yep, There's a lot of us here in MD just because of our jobs. My wife gets pissed when I refer to "serving my sentence on the East coast" and tells me to make the best of it. I came from Washington State and would love to go back but I think we're going to end up in NH as she grew up in New England and misses it and I think I culd be happy there (with the right shop!)
Allen Catonsville, MD
Starting in Christiansburg, VA it's 375 miles to Virginia Beach, 400 miles to Myrtle Beach, SC, and 450 miles to Savannah, GA.
Virginia Beach is approximately 500 miles from Savannah, GA.
I will guess Australia, but I have no idea why I'm guessing that.
That's because you live near DC. Try going to western Maryland. If you can't see for five miles it's because of the vistas getting in your way. :)
(Not that I'm advocating Maryland as a place to live, mind you, but if I had to live in Maryland, Cumberland would be OK.)
Seems to me Panama might qualify
Well I happened to come across the same one (with the light) at a local Mom 'n Pop hardware store for $59 and I couldn't resist. Mounted it today (practically got frost-bit doing so), decided it needed to be lower cause the heat wasn't getting down to me, dis-mounted it and put extensions down from the joists then remounted it (more frost bite) and finally decided that it was just to darn cold for the poor thing and went inside to my fireplace and Lazyboy. It was 10 last time I looked at the thermometer, and for us wimps on the east coast of VA, that is COLD...especially considering it was
80 a week ago.65 here in the mountains, but I agree how much this sucks.
Fortunately, I'm doing OK getting used to the cold. I didn't turn my heat on until about 4:00 today. It was 40 in the shop, with the sun heating the dark building. Not warm enough for glue, but plenty toasty enough for turning.
Going from 80 to 10 sucks, but I'll bet you don't have snow on the ground out on the coast. From the looks of it, we'll have this stuff for a week at least.
Been there several times. Didn't get the tee shirt. ;-)
True, there are places you can *go* in MD where there are good views. IMO it's different from western SD, western Nebraska, eastern Wyoming and eastern Montana. Most places there have good views. (Eastern SD, MN, IL & ID are too flat for my liking.)
I'm a cloud nut. I especially like watching thunderheads building & churning. The great plains is the place to be for that hobby.
Last time I drove through to Morgantown WV I noticed all that beautiful hardwood just waiting to be made into lumber.
-- Mark
Don't get *too* carried away. I'm still a tree nut at heart.
You call _ID_ *flat*??? They farm 3 sides of every acre up there. My uncle has a 'hill' on the far side of the stream in his back yard, that goes _nearly_ straight up almost 1500 ft. That's a 1500' "rise" in a "run" of less than 100 ft.
Mebbie you meant _IA_. Although it isn't all that flat, either. Des Moines Iowa, in the middle of the state, has a 400+ ft difference in elevation between the highest (1016') and lowest (585') points in town.
The dangers of generalization and ignorance. The part I drove through from IL to OH was flat.
Parts of western SD don't have great views either. ;-)
-- Mark
Sounds very flat, just not horizontal...
How, pray tell, did you go through *IDAHO*, going from IL to OH??
Wildly variable, there. There are expanses of very flat territory, and then there are the Black "hills", which are big/rugged enough to qualify as mountains in many places.
I've been up to the top of some of those 'hills' -- Forest Ranger fire- spotting station, in point of fact. A 4-story building on the top of the highest point in the area. (Note there were metal tower about 50' away, on three sides of the structure -- some of the heaviest 'lightning rods' I've ever seen. :) The top story was panoramic glass, from waist level, to the ceiling. About a 16x16 room, with an 8' square 'table' (covered with a map of the territory) in the middle of it.
Great for sky watching. Sometimes you were looking _down_ on clouds in the valleys.
*chuckle*
There was the occasional 'small' (i.e. 70' or so) pine tree growing 'out of' it. (On occasion, rock would split off and come crashing down. I saw that happen, a couple of times, with just small stuff. My cousin says it was "impressive" the day a tree from halfway up the 'hill' ended up in the stream.)
Aside from that, yeah, not a lot of variance on 'Z' axis.
Quite a bit of excursion on the 'X' axis, however, as you proceed along the 'Y' axis.
I'm a Sturgis HS alumni, class of 1977. Did a lot of hunting in the hills.
A college friend was lucky enough to get a summer job watching for fires from one of the lookouts. I envied her. ;-)
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