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View Poll Results: Is CT on the east coast?
Yes 87 95.60%
No 4 4.40%
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Old 02-22-2017, 09:57 AM
 
Location: Florida
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You are wrong and have no clue what you're saying... Look at the map below of what is actually Long Island Sound. As you can see, the easternmost towns in CT actually border the Atlantic Ocean, and not Long Island sound...

Attachment 181230

None of this matters anyway, because LIS is a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean..

..so I'll repeat, this thread is stupid.
That is wrong. Look at Google Maps. You will see that none of the southern water border of CT actually borders the real Atlantic Ocean. It borders NY (Long Island Sound) and RI (Block Island Sound).

 
Old 02-22-2017, 10:17 AM
 
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That is wrong. Look at Google Maps. You will see that none of the southern water border of CT actually borders the real Atlantic Ocean. It borders NY (Long Island Sound) and RI (Block Island Sound).
So now you're drawing your own boundaries? It is fact that [at least] Stonington is on the Atlantic, it's not opinion. The map SeaDoo posted is correct. I'm a boater and outside the official LI Sound boundary (which SeaDoo outlined), there is a marked difference in conditions. If you want to come up with your own fairytale, go for it, but it doesn't mean you're correct.

Additionally, LIS is an estuary of the Atlantic, which means it's still part of the Atlantic.

I know it's been mentioned many times, but the fact this thread was even made concerns me.
 
Old 02-22-2017, 10:18 AM
 
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Originally Posted by SeaDoo342 View Post
You are wrong and have no clue what you're saying... Look at the map below of what is actually Long Island Sound. As you can see, the easternmost towns in CT actually border the Atlantic Ocean, and not Long Island sound...

Attachment 181230

None of this matters anyway, because LIS is a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean..

..so I'll repeat, this thread is stupid.
Just re-highlighting this post, since it's accurate.
 
Old 02-22-2017, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Connecticut
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An interesting bit of trivia, NY state is north of, south of, west of, and east of CT according to its boundaries.

If you watch weather forecasts especially on the weather channel (although I have seen this on the local news too) sometimes they incorrectly include "Block Island, RI" as part of long island.

This is especially easy to notice when they use different colors for the states on the screen.
 
Old 02-22-2017, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Florida
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So now you're drawing your own boundaries? It is fact that [at least] Stonington is on the Atlantic, it's not opinion. The map SeaDoo posted is correct. I'm a boater and outside the official LI Sound boundary (which SeaDoo outlined), there is a marked difference in conditions. If you want to come up with your own fairytale, go for it, but it doesn't mean you're correct.

Additionally, LIS is an estuary of the Atlantic, which means it's still part of the Atlantic.

I know it's been mentioned many times, but the fact this thread was even made concerns me.
That is completely false.

Stonington's official boundary in the water is RHODE ISLAND. It doesn't just go into the Atlantic Ocean. Go to Google Maps and zoom in on the area and you will clearly see that there is a boundary that is RI.
 
Old 02-22-2017, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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This is ridiculous.

Long Island Sound is an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. IF you need an extremely simplistic definition of an estuary it is where rivers and the actual ocean waters meet.

Also, Block Island Sound is a STRAIT of the Atlantic Ocean. If you are REALLY going to argue that Stonington "belongs" to RI, then you need to argue that Fisher's Island "belongs" to RI, as well, since it falls into the strait. You would also need to argue that ONLY Long Island is really the east coast. Come on.

Our BEACHES--aka coastline--border the estuary (into which the Ocean flows) AND pieces of the Atlantic Ocean proper. Whatever the name of those straits, whatever, our state does indeed touch pieces of the Atlantic...which, makes CT East Coast.
 
Old 02-22-2017, 11:57 AM
 
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That is completely false.

Stonington's official boundary in the water is RHODE ISLAND. It doesn't just go into the Atlantic Ocean. Go to Google Maps and zoom in on the area and you will clearly see that there is a boundary that is RI.
So to clarify, now you're saying Rhode Island is a body of water?

Lol, you can't make this stuff up.
 
Old 02-22-2017, 12:01 PM
 
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Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. Explain.

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Old 02-22-2017, 12:06 PM
 
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That is completely false.

Stonington's official boundary in the water is RHODE ISLAND. It doesn't just go into the Atlantic Ocean. Go to Google Maps and zoom in on the area and you will clearly see that there is a boundary that is RI.
Bahahhahahahahahahahahhahahaha
 
Old 02-22-2017, 12:08 PM
 
Location: Connecticut
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That is completely false.

Stonington's official boundary in the water is RHODE ISLAND. It doesn't just go into the Atlantic Ocean. Go to Google Maps and zoom in on the area and you will clearly see that there is a boundary that is RI.
If you look at the map, only a portion of Rhode Island sticks out in front of Stonington. Stonington still has about half that faces open ocean. Jay
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