Team USA

[LA se Karachi]

Damn,I didn't know Texas was that big. @Hamartia Antidote @LA se Karachi


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Funny picture.

Alaska is even larger, though:

 

[Gomig-21]

Damn,I didn't know Texas was that big. @Hamartia Antidote @LA se Karachi


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I have family in Houston and every time we're down there, we drive to San Antonio to see the Alamo and the awesome Riverwalk and a couple of times we drove up to Dallas to see Dealy Plaza (very eerie to see the X where JFK was shot in the head) and in order to do all that, we spend half the time on the road lol.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Who's going to be in the predicted pathway of the solar eclipse? Antidote, too bad we're no where near it. We might have to wait another 100 years.

I live in Nashville, TN, so I'm right in the path. It's all our local news has been talking about. Middle TN is supposed to be getting up to 1.5 million tourists to witness it.

 

[Gomig-21]

I live in Nashville, TN, so I'm right in the path. It's all our local news has been talking about. Middle TN is supposed to be getting up to 1.5 million tourists to witness it.

I read people are coming from as far as Japan to see it since you're almost at the epicenter of its peak.
Hopefully no sacrificing will be going on.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Hmm..can't remember if the ~1993 eclipse was better than this one.

 

[Butchcassidy]

My lame attempt at capturing the eclipse

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

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My lame attempt at capturing the eclipse

Way better than my pathetic attempt.

 

[Butchcassidy]

Way better than my pathetic attempt.

View from central park

 

[Gomig-21]

@Hamartia Antidote Was it you who won the Powerball here in MA?

1 person hit the $759 million powerball lottery in Massachusetts. The funny thing is the state lottery agency anounced the wining ticket was sold in Watertown, MA, and all the media from all over the country was piled up in front of the store until they realized they made a mistake and it was another store in another town. Bummer for that Watertown store, they don't get the $50K reward for selling the winning ticket.

Someone is phsyhed this morning. If they take the lump sum and after taxes, they walk away with $432 million lol.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

@Hamartia Antidote Was it you who won the Powerball here in MA?

1 person hit the $759 million powerball lottery in Massachusetts. The funny thing is the state lottery agency anounced the wining ticket was sold in Watertown, MA, and all the media from all over the country was piled up in front of the store until they realized they made a mistake and it was another store in another town. Bummer for that Watertown store, they don't get the $50K reward for selling the winning ticket.

Someone is phsyhed this morning. If they take the lump sum and after taxes, they walk away with $432 million lol.

I wish. I was so busy with work I forgot to play. Sold in Chicopee at a gas station mini-mart. That's one of the lowest income cities in the state (~$25K income average). Somebody is going to go from rags to super riches.

Edit: guy I work with hit for a whopping $4. Lol!

 

[Gomig-21]

I wish. I was so busy with work I forgot to play. Sold in Chicopee at a gas station mini-mart. That's one of the lowest income cities in the state (~$25K income average). Somebody is going to go from rags to super riches.

Edit: guy I work with hit for a whopping $4. Lol!

Yaaay $4! Better than nothing. The lady that won it has an interesting story. She's a 53 year-old mother of 2 who's husband was killed in a hit & run last year.

EDIT: I just noticed you opened a thread on it.

Looks like Harvey is going to be a nasty Hurricane. The amount of water and flooding is very scary. 3-4 feet of water is like us getting something like 80 feet of snow! And the storm surges from this thing will be a huge problem for the coast.

Winds at the eye are predicted to reach 120 mph by tonight.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Winds at the eye are predicted to reach 120 mph by tonight.

Lol the chief meteorologist in Hong Kong had to resign for not warning people about Cyclone Katos severe 73mph winds. Of course that may not be the eye.

 

[Gomig-21]

Talk about Team USA!

https://twitter.com/x/status/902749597038194691

 

[VCheng]

America. A Poem for July 4.
Original poem (1893)

O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife,
When once or twice, for man's avail,
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain,
The banner of the free!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

And the view that inspired that famous poem:

 

[Gomig-21]

Good luck to anyone who lives in south FLA, especially the Keys and Miami. There's only 1 road out of the Keys and everyone needs to evacuate soon. Get your boats on trailers and haul out because Irma is not looking pretty. This is going to be tough and not just south Florida, but all the way up to Savannah, GA, might need to brace for the worst.