Oddities of geography (factories, underground, industry)

[1greatcity]

It was previously mentioned that both Los Angeles and St. Louis have same-named suburbs, including Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood, and Glendale. And someone added that the St. Louis Rams came from LA. Here are some additional connections between these two very dissimilar metro areas:
1. The western edge of the LA area is defined by the Pacific Ocean; the western edge of St. Louis County contains a portion of the city of Pacific.
2. Both LA and St. Louis have a "Walk of Fame". (The STL version is 3 blocks long, and the world-famous Hollywood Walk covers 15 blocks.)
3. There is a Venice located on water (the ocean) in LA, and a Venice located on water (the Mississippi River) across from St. Louis.
4. Los Angeles County and St. Louis County each contain a similar number of incorporated cities (88 and 91 respectively.)

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by I'minformed2

Oh brother not this stupid debate again.

S. Fla has a tropical CLIMATE.....it's possible for a region to have a tropical climate without being between the Cancer and Capricorn!

So a viewpoint that counters yours is stupid, huh?
Besides, there were plenty of nights that dipped into the 40s and sometimes 30s when I lived in Miami. Such a thing doesn't happen in Tortola or St Lucia.

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by 1greatcity

It was previously mentioned that both Los Angeles and St. Louis have same-named suburbs, including Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood, and Glendale. And someone added that the St. Louis Rams came from LA. Here are some additional connections between these two very dissimilar metro areas:
1. The western edge of the LA area is defined by the Pacific Ocean; the western edge of St. Louis County contains a portion of the city of Pacific.
2. Both LA and St. Louis have a "Walk of Fame". (The STL version is 3 blocks long, and the world-famous Hollywood Walk covers 15 blocks.)
3. There is a Venice located on water (the ocean) in LA, and a Venice located on water (the Mississippi River) across from St. Louis.
4. Los Angeles County and St. Louis County each contain a similar number of incorporated cities (88 and 91 respectively.)

Both were connected by the famed Route 66.

[just_sayin']

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

So a viewpoint that counters yours is stupid, huh?
Besides, there were plenty of nights that dipped into the 40s and sometimes 30s when I lived in Miami. Such a thing doesn't happen in Tortola or St Lucia.

Not a viewpoint that counters mine....a viewpoint that counters the official climatological definition of regional climates that is widely recognized.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

So a viewpoint that counters yours is stupid, huh?

He said the debate is stupid, because it proceeds from several different definitions of "tropical" and is usually entered into by people who refuse to budge from their definition.

tropical
— adj
1. situated in, used in, characteristic of, or relating to the tropics

If one debater wants to define it as situated in and another wants to define it as characteristic of, you have a stupid debate about whether a place is tropical or not, and both parties in such a debate are stupid, for being there in the first place.

[1greatcity]

By far, the most isolated US state capital is Juneau, Alaska. The city is some 530 miles from the nearest interstate designated highway (according to Google Maps). Not that that really matters, since Juneau is currently reachable only by plane or boat. But, a proposed 51-mile long road would finally link the city to the rest of North America. It's known as the Juneau Access Road, and a public hearing on the project is set for early 2013.

[just_sayin']

Originally Posted by jtur88

He said the debate is stupid, because it proceeds from several different definitions of "tropical" and is usually entered into by people who refuse to budge from their definition.

tropical
— adj
1. situated in, used in, characteristic of, or relating to the tropics

If one debater wants to define it as situated in and another wants to define it as characteristic of, you have a stupid debate about whether a place is tropical or not, and both parties in such a debate are stupid, for being there in the first place.

Exactly...thank you.

[Brookdale46]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

The majority of Oregon is in Pacific Time Zone but a county or two in the far eastern part of the state that borders Idaho is in Mountain Time. Thus you could place a call from this part of Oregon, a state that borders the Pacific and talk to someone in Pensacola (or Ft. Walton or Panama City) in a state that borders the Atlantic and only be an hour's time difference between the two.

I love quirks of time zone boundaries. Farther to the north, the Idaho panhandle, which lies east of the Oregon MTZ areas, is in the Pacific time zone, I suppose due to the historical commercial draw of Spokane. These two I understand. More perplexing to me is why both North and South Dakota can't be in one time zone (Central), for ease of business state-wide. There are no major population centers in Montana or Wyoming to draw the western parts of the Dakotas into the Mountain zone. In both states the lines separating the two time zones practically pass through the capital cities.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

Thus you could place a call from this part of Oregon, a state that borders the Pacific and talk to someone in Pensacola (or Ft. Walton or Panama City) in a state that borders the Atlantic and only be an hour's time difference between the two.

And, when daylight time is switched, there is an hour each year when it is the same time in Florida as Oregon. At 1 am on that fall night, Pensacola drops back to Eastern Oregon time an hour before Oregon sets back.

[1greatcity]

The town of Wendover, Nevada, is the only part of its state not in the Pacific Time Zone. Since 1999, Wendover has observed Mountain Standard Time.