Another entry in “Americans measuring thing in everything but measurement units”
Brave friend of mine went into Forest Conservation and Firefighting, got calf muscles big as cantaloupes!
What’s that in metric?
Calf muscles as big as charentais melons.
600 square miles (1,553 square km)
Using states as a unit of measure for forest fires seems to be a common thing. A couple decades ago I flew into Fairbanks Alaska , and as we were getting close to landing the pilot told everybody not to panic if we smelled smoke because it was just the forest fires that were covering an area the size of Massachusetts.
I’m a little verklempt. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Here, I’ll give you a topic: Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island.
Discuss
Neither is it rode. But it IS LAND. Even scientists can’t explain it.
Time to teach a fun fact!
Up until 2020, the official name of Rhode Island was State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence and surrounding towns on the mainland were the “Providence Plantations”, and Newport and Portsmouth, on the island also known as Aquidneck Island, were the Rhode Island part of the equation.
Have you ever seen Rhode Island and Rhodes in the same place? No? I rest my case.
I miss summers when everything wasn’t on fire.
We’re literally at a point where a small to medium size town is wiped off the map every year here in Canada. Lytton last year and Jasper this year. Will anything be done about it? No… Maybe some pearl clutching and prayers but nothing concrete.
Sometimes in the gorge we get really windy days. One of these fires on a windy day after a dry spell could be one of the worst disasters in human history.
Damn near was a couple years ago
That’s about the size of Kickapoo, Illinois. Probably. Maybe
A long ass fucking time ago in a town called Kickapoo
