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Post by missouriboy on Mar 6, 2018 14:46:55 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 6, 2018 16:30:49 GMT
Sleeping giant may awaken?
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 6, 2018 21:38:07 GMT
Sleeping giant may awaken? Hope he/she isn't really grumpy.
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 7, 2018 0:35:15 GMT
Count me in on that as well Missouriboy!
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Post by Ratty on Mar 7, 2018 0:44:58 GMT
Make that three: I'm MUCH closer to the action.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 7, 2018 3:48:57 GMT
Ran into a statement that Krakatoa (1883) may have been partially responsible for the 5-year series of intense winters and blizzards that ravaged North America from 1883 to 1888. This was also a period of several sequential, weak solar cycles. Looking for relevant articles.
In the three year winter period from December 1885 to March 1888, the Great Plains and Eastern United States suffered a series of the worst blizzards in this nation’s history ending with the Schoolhouse Blizzard and the Great NYC Blizzard of 1888. The massive explosion of the volcano Krakatoa in the South Pacific (in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)) late in August 1883 is a suspected cause of these huge blizzards during these several years. The clouds of ash it emitted continued to circulate around the world for many years. Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years, and temperatures did not return to normal until 1888. Record rainfall was experienced in Southern California during July 1883 to June 1884. The Krakatoa eruption injected an unusually large amount of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas high into the stratosphere which reflects sunlight and helped cool the planet over the next few years until the suspended atmospheric sulfur fell to ground.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 8, 2018 4:10:16 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Mar 8, 2018 12:18:21 GMT
Stop it! That's only 6,000ks from here.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 9, 2018 19:17:22 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 13, 2018 22:53:32 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 14, 2018 9:57:15 GMT
The people in Naples are continually living with what could happen if Vesuvius were to erupt again. If you can visit Pompeii it is worthwhile if only to see how advanced the Romans were with their buildings, shopping streets and even traffic calming blocks in the roads. It also has the best white knuckle ride I have experienced. Get in a cab in central Naples and say "The airport I'm in a hurry" Stop lights are advisory only and all the cars are delivered pre-dented.
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Post by acidohm on Mar 14, 2018 10:25:47 GMT
The Italians are completely nuts! I hired a scooter with a mate in Rome years ago, spent all day going past smashed scooters left by the roadsides...
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 14, 2018 10:43:13 GMT
The Italians are completely nuts! I hired a scooter with a mate in Rome years ago, spent all day going past smashed scooters left by the roadsides... They are but I spent some time in Naples and realized that the locals would just walk across a busy road and the traffic would go round them - so I started doing it. Was difficult to persuade people that were only there for a day or so to just walk, but funny watching their reaction after waiting for the pedestrian 'green light' and realizing that the traffic didn't stop unless they walked.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 14, 2018 16:06:27 GMT
The people in Naples are continually living with what could happen if Vesuvius were to erupt again. If you can visit Pompeii it is worthwhile if only to see how advanced the Romans were with their buildings, shopping streets and even traffic calming blocks in the roads. High centered on a Roman speed bump on a one-way street? Axle clearance regulations. I can visualize young delinquents having "fun" with a small slingshot.
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 14, 2018 18:09:05 GMT
What I found interesting was the row of shops with grooves for sliding doors and built in counters and a public bath house with hollow walls for steam heating, towel racks etc. Obviously a planned town. Really worth a visit
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