Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Maryland is indeed a paradise. I got nailed via a camera for a speeding ticket when I missed a sign and did not slow down in time, even though the sign was in the middle of the forest and the town was not yet visible.

 

I’m sure others on here have done the Mackinac Bridge walk on Labor Day. Even though there aren’t any “Gales of early September” it sways quite a bit.

It’s really cool when a Great Lakes freighter moves below you.

 

When you are going under a bridge on a ship, right up until the last second the optics make it look like you are going to hit. We used to have so much fun with guys who were experiencing it for the first time.

 

Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, senior engineer testifies

 

I did it once. Scared the hell out of me looking at the water a long way away.

 

I don’t get scared of heights, but I had a bad case of vertigo 20 years ago when I tried to walk to the edge of a huge, deep sinkhole in the Ozark woods. It was the strangest feeling. I had to sit down. As for the GGB, I scared my girlfriend by leaning over the railing.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/18/greenland-hotter-temperatures/

The coldest and highest parts of the Greenland ice sheet, nearly two miles above sea level in many locations, are warming rapidly and showing changes that are unprecedented in at least a millennium, scientists reported Wednesday.


That’s the finding from research that extracted multiple 100-foot or longer cores of ice from atop the world’s second-largest ice sheet. The samples allowed the researchers to construct a new temperature record based on the oxygen bubbles stored inside them, which reflect the temperatures at the time when the ice was originally laid down.


“We find the 2001-2011 decade the warmest of the whole period of 1,000 years,” said Maria Hörhold, the study’s lead author and a scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany.

 

I walked across the Goethals a couple months ago, kinda for the hell of it. (I flew into Newark and I was meeting friends on Staten Island. I didn't feel like going into the city and back out. So bus to Elizabeth, walk, and another bus it was. Adventures are fun.) It wasn't very scenic, unless you like oil tanks and industrial everything. I have nothing else to add.

 

In Vicksburg they have two bridges across the Mississippi River — the I-20 interstate bridge and an old bridge that's closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic. They have a couple of events on the old bridge each year, including a run across it and back (always thought it'd be fun to do it and say you ran to Louisiana and back) and a dinner event where some local chefs set up in the middle of the bridge.
There's also a train bridge adjacent to the old bridge (which is why they haven't torn it down) and it is still active. Most times during the later stages of the run the train comes through and people get to run alongside it for a bit. The engineers will sometimes come out of the cab and watch the runners as well. It looks like they're close enough to high-five each other, but it's really a pretty good gap between the two bridges. The thing still shakes like crazy and is pretty unnerving if you're on it when the train rolls across.

 

The bridges in DC are great for running or walking across. Spacious and not too crowded at all. When I go downtown with the kids, we park at Arlington Cemetery and walk across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall. The scariest part of that is negotiating the giant traffic circle on the Virginia side.

The Wilson Bridge has a really nice walkway, especially when you get to the Maryland side and head toward National Harbor. The 14th Street Bridge isn’t bad either.