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I'm deeply blessed to live on and own ~100ft of Lake Erie's shoreline. I can hear her waves now. Like all the Great Lakes, she is an inland ocean, enormous, inv
by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
I'm deeply blessed to live on and own ~100ft of Lake Erie's shoreline. I can hear her waves now. Like all the Great Lakes, she is an inland ocean, enormous, inviting the misapprehension that she will dilute an infinite amount of anything you could drain into her. Alas, around here we know the history: not that long ago the surface of Lake Erie caught on fire and no one could figure out how to put it out. So let's remember that we're doing better than we once did. My backyard is daily frequented by bald eagles chasing one another. The place is in many ways healthy.
At the same time, it's quite clear that it's still not good enough - particularly the algae blooms centering on the mouth of the Maumee river (near Toledo) which turn miles of the lake into something looking and feeling like bright green paint every so often. It doesn't come near my place, but you can imagine how I feel when I picture a hundred square miles of toxic green sludge, juxtaposed with Michigan and Ohio Republican politicians proposing "self-regulation" as the solution...
- thisisnico 6y agoI live quite close to you, fellow Ontarian here. Windsor is where I call home. I plan one day to own a house on the lake, nothing else like it.
- jeffmcmahan 6y agoI'm a Michigander - across the water from Amherstburg and a tick south.
- tjr225 6y agoI come from Kalamazoo. I hope I never have to move back. Cheap, but for a reason.
- jeffmcmahan 6y agoUh, is that intended as a shot at Michigan? Maybe that's not what you meant. I don't know. When I sit on my break wall with friends, sipping scotch and enjoying a half decent cigar, I get to feeling like certain parts of Michigan are pretty hard to improve upon.
- tjr225 6y agoDefinite shot against Michigan. It’s fine, I suppose. Glad to never return however. Enjoy the cigar!
- bosswipe 6y agoI've lived in several shithole places, as our ex-prez would say, and I've learned that you can have a grand old time just about anywhere as long as you have good friends to spend the time with.
- svnpenn 6y agoCant you just say "the waves"? Calling it "her" once is fine, but four times is creepy.
- jeffmcmahan 6y agoIt's weird to say 'her' once and then switch pronouns. But I hear you. You're picturing me with a peg leg. :)
- unethical_ban 6y agoHere's an HNer who knows that gendered pronouns exist for many inanimate nouns, and thinks that it's okay. edit: Just to make sure I'm understood, I mean to say "I think it's okay", not to mock the OP who used the pronouns. More directly and non-sarcastically: "Using 'her' for bodies of water is not wrong".
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- CROANLY 6y agojeffmcmahan says>"It's weird to say 'her' once and then switch pronouns. But I hear you. You're picturing me with a peg leg. :)"< No, just with your dick in the dirt.
- screye 6y agoWe have already seen 1 great water body lose to human hubris : L̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶B̶a̶i̶k̶a̶l̶ (edit: Aral Sea). Aral Sea volume (1960) - 1000 cubicKm Lake Erie volume - 500 cubicKm So yeah, If L̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶B̶a̶i̶k̶a̶l̶ (edit:Aral Sea) can go down, so can the great lakes.
- OrbitRock 6y agoLake Baikal is so large and ancient that it’s a major global hotspot for freshwater diversity, hosting entire families found nowhere else.
- porb121 6y agoDo you mean the Aral Sea? Lake Baikal has not been lost at all.
- screye 6y agoAh this, is embarassing. Yes, I meant the Aral Sea. edited to reflect error.