Reee-markable. Thanks. / In the After photo, Boston & Hartford are alight. But the mean streets of Greenwich CT are dark. / Of course Fairfield County is always In the Black anyway. :)
Thanks, Brendan, from one of your camp followers who never remembers that “Hey, Mom, the Goodyear Blimp!” means “Point the camera at it!”, not “Look at THAT!”
As Brendan so nicely placed a map with NY state centered on it, I figured I’d take this chance to explain NY geography to the hordes of Californians that seem to think that everything in NY state is close to NYC. First of all, NY is the big triangular state in the center of these maps. The massive white area on the before picture is NYC and many of its suburbs–not that these are not limited to being within NY state. On the far West of the state, there are two oblong shapes–the more Northern one is Lake Ontario, and the more Western one is Lake Erie, two of the Great Lakes. The large glow of light on the Northwest edge of Lake Ontario is Toronto, and the circle of light it is connected to that’s right between the two lakes is Buffalo (to a first approximation–Buffalo and Niagara Falls/Ft Erie are close enough that their lights probably intermingle on this shot). Toronto and Buffalo are a good two hours apart by car, even for those driving like madmen. This is why prior to college Brendan, despite living in Connecticut, went to NYC more often and I did, as he was considerably closer–the entire state of Connecticut is closer to NYC than Buffalo is. Now, of course, he lives in the Big Apple, which is an even better reason for being there more frequently than someone in a different city. :)
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August 15th, 2003 at 5:06:08 pm
Reee-markable. Thanks. / In the After photo, Boston & Hartford are alight. But the mean streets of Greenwich CT are dark. / Of course Fairfield County is always In the Black anyway. :)
August 15th, 2003 at 5:34:32 pm
Not as stark as I expected but still pretty crazy!
August 15th, 2003 at 6:17:58 pm
Thanks, Brendan, from one of your camp followers who never remembers that “Hey, Mom, the Goodyear Blimp!” means “Point the camera at it!”, not “Look at THAT!”
Excellent report.
August 16th, 2003 at 5:28:25 pm
As Brendan so nicely placed a map with NY state centered on it, I figured I’d take this chance to explain NY geography to the hordes of Californians that seem to think that everything in NY state is close to NYC. First of all, NY is the big triangular state in the center of these maps. The massive white area on the before picture is NYC and many of its suburbs–not that these are not limited to being within NY state. On the far West of the state, there are two oblong shapes–the more Northern one is Lake Ontario, and the more Western one is Lake Erie, two of the Great Lakes. The large glow of light on the Northwest edge of Lake Ontario is Toronto, and the circle of light it is connected to that’s right between the two lakes is Buffalo (to a first approximation–Buffalo and Niagara Falls/Ft Erie are close enough that their lights probably intermingle on this shot). Toronto and Buffalo are a good two hours apart by car, even for those driving like madmen. This is why prior to college Brendan, despite living in Connecticut, went to NYC more often and I did, as he was considerably closer–the entire state of Connecticut is closer to NYC than Buffalo is. Now, of course, he lives in the Big Apple, which is an even better reason for being there more frequently than someone in a different city. :)