On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:03:01AM -0400, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > Hmmm how did this get from my riff on the Steinberg New Yorker Cover > regarding Cotty once living in California (after someone joked about > his Britness)to a serious discussion of the Hudson River? I had > hoped I had released a jolly play-on-words thread. > > Oh well
At least you can now answer in the affirmative if someone asks if you've driven a fjord thread recently. > > ann > > On 10/3/2013 22:43, P.J. Alling wrote: > >The Hudson River is geologically considered to be a fiord so it's pretty > >close to sea level. The Connecticut River which geographically isn't a > >fiord is tidal to about 30 miles inland. > > > >On 10/3/2013 5:40 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >>On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 03:23:12PM -0600, steve harley wrote: > >>>on 2013-10-03 14:43 Larry Colen wrote > >>>>On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:35:24PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >>>>>On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:27 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>>on 2013-10-03 13:11 Larry Colen wrote > >>>>>>>On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:03:12PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >>>>>>>>I don't think the Hudson River flows south either. > >>>>>>>Although, depending on the tides, it probably flows both directions > >>>>>>>right at the opening. > >>>>>>not just the opening — in flood tide, it flows "upstream" as far > >>>>>>north as Albany > >>>>>> > >>>>>><http://atlanticsailors.com/Hudson-River.html> > >>>>>LOL! Like with any internet forum, there is always someone who will > >>>>>nitpick the details of any simple statement to death. > >>>>Godfrey, you are often one of those people. I should know, I am often > >>>>two of those people. > >>>me three, i guess, but i'd like to think i brought life, not death > >>>to the subject — "right at the opening" vs. 140 miles upstream is a > >>>major detail, at least to us river rats > >>I wonder what the elevation of the river is 140 miles upstream. > >>High tides much over, what?, a meter?, are probably a bit unusual, > >>and tidal effects are probably mostly limited by the elevation > >>of the river surface, and the high tide level. > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
