<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Send Em Back Al)</div><div class='quotemain'>I just turned 41 this week. But I'm a young 41! </div> Gotta ya beat, Cowboy. I'll be 35 in early Sept. I won't accept gifts just $. The kickbacks from here @ Sf's website are not paying very well. Is it time for my mid life crisis yet????
Mid life crisis? Crap! I forgot to start mine. Thanks for the heads up. My only crisis is that my son thinks that my car is his! I pretty much have lost use of it on the weekends...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Steelerfan_2003)</div><div class='quotemain'>Let the crisis begin.</div> Crisis? What crisis? I am done dealing w/ you know who from over there.
You have a son that's driving Chip? Ok, that just seems odd... But I guess whey you get to be YOUR age, you shouldn't be driving much anyway....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Steelerfan_2003)</div><div class='quotemain'>You have a son that's driving Chip? Ok, that just seems odd... But I guess whey you get to be YOUR age, you shouldn't be driving much anyway.... </div> YOU think it seems odd? Naw, it's not that bad. It is funny that he is older than some of the people posting to the board. BTW, we don't really 'drive' in SoCal. We just shuffle between parking spaces.
Once again true. My question is where does the East Coast end and Mid-Atlantic begin? Is it the mountain range that separates the two? Isn't that the case on the West Coast?
You want an opinion on East Coast geography from me? I think I'll pass. The width of California pretty much takes away coastal status from Nevada, & Arizona. In both cases you are crossing miles of California (Mojave) desert before you leave the state, at least in the southern portion. In the north, the Sierra Nevada range would be a good cutting off point, and thus the state border... Also hundreds of miles from the ocean. I guess it's all a matter of perspective. In California, many people consider pretty much everything 'the other side' of Colorado as eastern. My wife tells people that when we go to Chicago that we are heading 'back east'.
Everything on the other side of the Sierra Nevadas (Reno to ??) is considered the Great Basin. Very similar to parts of the near East and SW Asia (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, & Afghanistan) SLC is a desert. Not a typical one sense like Cairo, Tucson, or Vega$. Rather a High Altitude (4400 ft minimum), Cold weather (can get damn cold Dec to Feb) desert. After all, the winter games were here 2 years ago. Can you tell someone is showing off their college degree in Geography?
Lets bring this desert thing one step further with weather supplying some details. Deserts are typically found in either a 30 degree north and south latitudes or 90 which would be the north and south poles. Antartica a desert? True but who would have thought. The reason for this is that there is semi permanent high pressures supplying descending dry air. So of course you would expect to find the moist rising air at 0 and 60 which are typical places to find rain forests. With this being said I'm guessing SLC is found somewhere in the 30 degree north range.
SF has gone from crackin' jokes to just plain playa hatin' Honestly, useless trivia (history) was my minor. Glenso; SLC is a little north of 40 degress north which is about the same as NYC. U R absolurtely right about why all deserts occur where they do. As the warm equatorial air sinks, it dries out because of the horse latitudes. Simply put, the air gets drier and as it sinks it causes the surface to dry out as well.
