Did the Thousand Islands get inflated to 10,000 ?
On 30 August 2014 23:08, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I was just ribbing you. In the winter, when we live in Florida, my next
> door neighbor is a building contractor from Brockville, Ontario... on the
> St. Lawrence River in the 10,000 Islands area. I've never, ever heard him
> mention a metric measure and his measuring tape is assuredly not metric.
> But he is 72 and grew up that way. I can count by 2s, 8s, 10's or 16s but
> really do prefer inches, feet and miles for most things except lenses, of
> course. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 8/30/2014 5:18 PM, John Hudson wrote:
>
>> Feet and / or meters for land elevations ................. helps to
>> accommodate those few who have difficulty with a base 10 measuring system.
>>
>> Does the US keep exclusively with miles, yards, feet and inches because
>> too many people have trouble grasping base 10 :-)
>>
>> jh
>>
>>
>> On 8/29/2014 9:24 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> I thought you guys up there had given up on feet as a measure. :-)
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>> On 8/29/2014 5:44 PM, John Hudson wrote:
>>>
>>>> This reminds me of a logging road in south eastern British Columbia we
>>>> drove up in mid summer 1995 and seen here:
>>>>
>>>> *http://tinyurl.com/qack7vw
>>>>
>>>> *The logging road was in active use ...... big 40 wheelers with upwards
>>>> of 150,000 pound loads ....... during our drive up the hill in our
>>>> diesel VW Jetta.
>>>>
>>>> Total elevation gain from the highway to the parking lot's look out was
>>>> >5,600 feet.
>>>>
>>>> jh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8/29/2014 5:44 PM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is where we went on Wed. +/-9mi/15km rt. Will be trying to get
>>>>> out more this fall.
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/DamfinoLks/Damfino_0100.JPG
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> more as I get to them.
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/DamfinoLks/>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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