Post #440,119
10/8/21 1:47:50 AM
10/8/21 1:53:19 AM
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You're in basically the same climate as me
And yeah, it rains a lot.
We're just now heading into The Long Dark. I'm at an even higher latitude than you (I think of all the IWTers, only CRC and Jack have a chance of being further north) by about 6°, and so I'm eagerly looking forward to about six hours of daylight, just around Xmas.
Edited by pwhysall
Oct. 8, 2021, 01:53:19 AM EDT
You're in basically the same climate as me
And yeah, it rains a lot.
We're just now heading into The Long Dark.
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Post #440,120
10/8/21 5:29:15 AM
10/8/21 5:29:15 AM
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Cheer up, you've got over an hour more than that.
--
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking EverythingMail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
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Post #440,121
10/8/21 8:41:12 AM
10/8/21 8:41:12 AM
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Re: Cheer up, you've got over an hour more than that.
Yeah, but the first hour and last hour are daylight in name only.
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Post #440,128
10/8/21 5:15:29 PM
10/8/21 5:15:29 PM
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Hour? The first and last frigging MONTHS of the year are totally fracking useless.
These latitudes are really only inhabitable from about April to September, IMO. :-( --
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking EverythingMail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
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Post #440,131
10/8/21 10:51:08 PM
10/8/21 10:51:08 PM
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Don't know about Finland, but in Iceland couples have more children.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #440,136
10/9/21 9:27:36 AM
10/9/21 9:27:36 AM
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You'd think that goes for all the Nordic countries, but nativity here is still really low.
For the native populations, that is -- at least Sweden seems to think they've found the solution to this in allowing what is in practice unlimited immigration from MENA countries, which immigrants don't seem to drop their nativity rates for at least the first couple generations or so, but... I better not go further here, lest I be construed as being not only in the wrong forum (this not being Politics), but on all the wrong sides of it, too. --
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking EverythingMail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
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Post #440,129
10/8/21 5:18:16 PM
10/8/21 5:18:16 PM
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Long dark. I bought a sun lamp
Basically an LED panel that is really bright. You're supposed to spend an hour next to it each morning. Don't look at the light, read a newspaper, do chores etc.
I feel it does tickle my brain. I had the choice between this and the ceramic metal halide and this is safer / cooler and uses less electricity. I would actually rather have the CMH because you can feel warmth from it and it slowly ramps up so it feels like there is a sunrise happening. That'll be next.
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Post #440,132
10/9/21 2:20:55 AM
10/9/21 2:20:55 AM
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Quite different here . . .
. . in this Land of Three Seasons (Drought - Fire - Flood / Mudslide).
Of course in my exact location, there is a significant change in the time of daylight. I live in a deep narrow valley(1) with mountains (to exaggerate a little(2)) on both sides. In summer, sunlight is from one end of this valley to the other. In winter, it is from over one mountain and down over the other. This sort of emulates what is happening in more northern regions - fortunately, not seriously.
(1) This valley exists because a fault line runs from one end to the other, but it's small, and been dormant for a few million years or so, unlike up in Washington, where it's very big, and on a 300 year cycle that's past due. A good thing about this area is that it's all rotten granite, and I mean really rotten, you can kick it apart with your boots. This doesn't propagate earthquake shocks very well at all.
(2) Actually, compared to the Appalachians. these are "mountains", but compared to what we call "mountains" out here, not so much.
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Post #440,134
10/9/21 7:49:05 AM
10/9/21 7:49:05 AM
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I'm on the edge of the state with real mountains to the east.
This means sunrise is around 7:00 a.m.
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Post #440,141
10/9/21 8:54:35 PM
10/9/21 8:54:35 PM
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That means you'll get flattened by the tsunami.
Ceterum autem censeo pars Republican esse delendam.
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Post #440,142
10/10/21 7:27:29 AM
10/10/21 7:27:29 AM
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I love the tsunami evacuation signs
When's the last tsunami that hit this area? Never.
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Post #440,151
10/11/21 12:01:37 PM
10/11/21 12:02:08 PM
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let Never:u32 = 5;
Ceterum autem censeo pars Republican esse delendam.
Edited by InThane
Oct. 11, 2021, 12:02:08 PM EDT
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Post #440,153
10/11/21 1:16:47 PM
10/11/21 1:34:49 PM
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There was once a continent . . .
. . where the Pacific Ocean is now. The Pacific Plate shoved the whole thing down under the North American Plate - except a fragment along the Pacific Northwest - which is still being shoved under.
As that former continent is shoved under, it causes the land to bulge up to the east. When it finally releases, the land slides west and drops. This action causes a very major tsunami, affecting the coast from Vancouver Island to the northern border of California.
Geologists have determined these slippages happen on average every 300 years. It is now 321 years since the last one. The tsunami could hit this afternoon, or 150 years from now, we do not know. What we do know is that it will happen.
Geologists expect that pretty much everything west of the I5 will be wiped.
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Post #440,154
10/11/21 2:57:44 PM
10/11/21 2:57:44 PM
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If you're looking for Never, it ain't there.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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