I'm starting to question why anyone lives in California
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Firstly, thank you.
Secondly, literally what outside looks like right now. Escapist rotated it and I’m lazy.
Yes. Sunset will probably feature that blood red sky I mentioned.
My sister has been complaining about not being able to go outside or open her windows in San Diego due to the smoke there. She said her and her husband have been wearing gas masks to go to the store. LOL
Isn't it sort of surreal that everyone actually HAS gas masks in the first place? LMAO
What's weird is that our sunrise today out here actually looked like that too:
So you may be onto something with that "the end is nigh" idea.
An eerie phenomenon: Wildfires cause sun, moon to glow red in Arizona
According to local meteorologists, the red hues are due to wildfire smoke blowing into the state, which has caused hazy skies and a red tint to the moon and sun.
Apparently the sun AND the moon :O
I believe someone posted in another thread about how the Redwoods need these fires because they're actually important for their life cycle of something.
Oh, also.
Nah, I love it here. I can't imagine living anywhere else. I loved the large hills in my area of the state. When I'm going home and through this one town they have this giant hill behind them with some magnificent trees all over it and it's a great view when you drive down into it. When the fog from lakes and rivers gets thick enough you get this eerie yet beautiful look to all the forest covered hills too. While I've never been much of an outdoors person, I have fond memories of fishing with my father and canoeing too. Going to Silver Dollar City with my family in my youth was also always fun, me and my sister used to collect the pennies you could get rolled flat there every time we went and it was interesting to see the glass blowers do their thing. I'm quite happy with my state.Now we need to start a Missourian refugee fund for Specter so you can escape to something better.. XD you likely wouldn't want to go back HAHA!
You may want to move quick though.. can we be sure there aren't any local human traffickers on the lookout for a new pad?
Historic Missouri home comes with a nine-cell jail
A brick home in Fayette, Missouri that just hit the market was built for the Howard County Sheriff and still has a jail attached.therealdeal.com
I hope you know we are just messing with you. Sometimes where you come from feels like part of who you are and it is like cutting off your arm to part with it ( mostly because ya know it is Missouri and all) jk
For a long time I felt that way about here as well. I mean, with as much as I can't stand so many things about this state, my family literally built their house and farm with their hands entirely. My dad designed it all.. the house, garden, orchard, farm.. hell he even designed and built cars there. Him being gone it feels like that is all we have left of him and why I sold my house and moved into an apartment and used that money instead so that my Mom could keep the house and farm and spend the rest of her days there. It will be hard to leave for sure. I still think one day I want to leave though. I have other family, they can stay here and keep the farm after my mom is gone.. I think eventually I still want to spend some time in paradise before it is all said and done. The weather here is literally trying to kill me.
Funny though I have a flattened penny collection too, but from all over the place. Anytime I find somewhere that does it I just can't resist. haha! Though my favorite flattened pennies are the ones we actually flattened ourselves on the railroad tracks as kids. Those little cute prints you get when going places is nice and all, but the sheer terror of putting it on the track and staying close enough to see which way the penny went so it was so loud and like a crazy wind tunnel was just too much fun and fond memories.
I also collect blown glass.. I have a glass dragon collection then my weird obsession with gas sculptures and art glass is sort of a creepy ridiculous obsession of mine. I can see why you enjoy watching them make them, I have a friend that makes Neons. It is pretty cool. That was on my list of crafts I wanted to learn how to do, but I dropped that plan when the virus messed up my lungs so it is pretty much out of the question now because blowing into the glass and being able to regulate how much air you blow is sort of required to do it. It looks amazing though.
THIS TYPE OF ART GLASS:
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Clearly they thought they were just gonna eat a lot of peaches
Yeah, not sure what some people expect. "I'm gonna move to a farm/ranch area, but all those animals are just annoying!" Because clearly your steak was always a plastic wrapped hunk of meat.
That'd be me, and it's not just redwoods. Wildfire is a critical part of temperate/subtropical coniferous forests and plains/shrubland. It's necessary for everything from soil remediation, to removing old/dead plant matter to encourage growth, to a (theorized) collective defense mechanism against invasive species and competitors. Hell, many of these species can't even propagate without fire, because pods/cones don't release their seeds unless heated.
Holy mother of god, how does anyone live in that? My perspective might be a little skewed from being Canadian and not being in a place where people have air conditioning, but I just can't process the idea of that being...habitable. This year has been the hottest on record (I think, at least the hottest in my 26 years of being alive) and it got up to 42°C/107°F for a couple days, I still don't know how I didn't just drop dead from that.
Like, seriously, I'll take -40 over that bullshit any day of the week.
As an Arizona resident who had about a week of around 120 degrees temps a little while ago, it's a combination getting acclimated to it and A/C, and if you can't get that shade is good too as there's no humidity to transfer heat (though heat tends to stick around in the pavement and such and keeps it pretty hot well after the sun goes down). I remember back when I was a kid it would get down into the 80's at night but now you're lucky if you can get below 100.
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I have relatives in Toronto, Canada/ Once when I visited them, we went off to this other town in Ontario (Kingston?), a few hours by road. The whole journey was the same: flat land, with nothing but seemingly identical conifer trees, the odd farm, and occasional billboards.
That would drive me insane. I'm used to a country where 30 miles travel in any direction would usually see you in totally different terrain.
That would drive me insane. I'm used to a country where 30 miles travel in any direction would usually see you in totally different terrain.