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It really is both. Winter in the north is stunningly beautiful, but it can be very unforgiving. I'm still far enough south that even though it can be cold, there's still infrastructure and deep freezes rarely last more than a week or two at once (it's 27F here today, hoodie and jeans weather). The far north where that pic is from, the true arctic, is a totally different story. Weeks, sometimes months, of ultra cold temperatures. Vast tracts of land with no roads and very little signs of life. Hundreds of miles between villages, never mind towns or cities. Oh yeah, and 24 hours of darkness for 6 months of the year.

On the flip side, the summers are just as beautiful. Life springs out of the most unexpected places and the wilderness explodes with color and activity.

I truly love the north. It's in my blood.

 

Will that affect your ability to update your OnlyFans page? Asking for a neighbor.

 

Which drift is covering your home?

 

The white one.

 

yes, but i'm drawing pics now and mailing them out now.

still charging full price

 

Sounds like a deal! I’ll go tell him.

 

So... when you say 24 hours of darkness for 6 months of the year, are you saying no light for 6 months; or are you saying it's only dark for 24 hours out of the entire 6 months; or...

I've always been intrigued by that whole thing, but I thought it was only the true northernmost point that experienced it

 

As far as I know there is. I don't get out that way much anymore.

To date myself, when I was in high school we would skate on the soap box derby track.

 

No real light for almost 6 months. It's more like 11 weeks at the north pole, but the rest of the winter is twilight so basically night. Once you get across the Arctic Circle from the sun essentially doesn't rise from basically the end of October until March. The further north you get, the longer the darkness lasts. The southern more latitudes, closer to the Arctic Circle will maybe 30 days of total darkness and then various levels of twilight for most of the winter.

 

Vampire land, that's what that is.

 

The fish are a minor problem. It's the explosions that are bad.

WNOR hoax isn't funny to everyone and no, Mount Trashmore isn't really going to blow up
It started as an April Fools' prank by a couple of irreverent disc jockeys.

But what happened Wednesday was no joke to police, the Federal Communications Commission and listeners who believed a report that Mount Trashmore was about to explode.


The hoax began around 6:30 a.m., when WNOR-FM 99 disc jockeys Henry "The Bull" Del Toro and Tommy Griffiths warned that the old landfill was about to hurl debris all over Virginia Beach.

The disc jockeys said that a University of Virginia seismologist had detected a methane-gas buildup under the old dump, which has been converted to a public park.

For more than an hour, they issued news flashes about the imminent disaster and the danger of "low-flying dirt clods." The station's newscaster and traffic reporters played along.

Then came the evacuation warning: Everyone within a seven-mile radius of Mount Trashmore was being asked to leave.

And that's when the trouble began. Just as in 1938, when Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast convinced the nation that New Jersey was under attack by space aliens, some folks believed that the danger was real.

"I was terrified," said Tani Cornelius, who packed up her 5-month-old daughter and sought refuge at a friend's house in Norfolk. "While I was driving down Princess Anne Road parallel to Mount Trashmore, I kept thinking, 'What if it blows right now? My baby.' "

Callers, whose moods ranged from disbelief to panic, lit up police emergency lines.

"There was the possibility that someone with a bona fide emergency could not get through or was delayed in getting through," said Lou Thurston, spokesman for the Virginia Beach Police Department.

The station stopped the broadcast about 7:45 a.m., after police showed up at its Chesapeake studios.

Virginia Beach police also lodged a complaint with the FCC. The local FCC director, J.J. Freeman, said the complaints to his agency and police numbered in the hundreds.

Freeman said that if the commission finds that WNOR endangered the public's health and safety, it could fine the station up to $25,000 or revoke its license.

Such strict punishment would be unusual. The commission has not revoked a license for a false broadcast in recent history – not even when a St. Louis station falsely reported a nuclear attack on the United States at the start of the Persian Gulf war.

Joseph D. Schwartz, WNOR vice president and general manager, went on the air Wednesday and apologized.

"Tom and Henry have very fertile imaginations," Schwartz said. "Perhaps they took it to a higher extent than they should have."

Schwartz said he is considering disciplinary action against the disc jockeys.

 

Whoops

 

I guess nobody has a sense of humour or critical thinking skills any more.

Riding in the van to work on April 1st years ago and the folks on the radio were doing some bit about how there was a big sewer system backup so no one was supposed to flush their toilets or something. I was laughing the whole time but one of my co-workers called her husband in a panic.

 

A couple of weeks ago, about a dozen schools in NC got swatted on the same day. I guarantee you nobody thought that shit was funny.

 

Not really the same thing now is it?

 

Ice fish and fornicate. Hockey is boring.

 

Nothing like getting a Muskie on the line to get the juices flowing

 

I have yet to catch a muskie. Not really any of them around here. Lots of pike though, big ones too.

 

And you can do both at same time

 

Exactly why I have a pop-up ice shelter and propane heater.

 

It's actually better than it used to be. The big vert ramp is still there but they added a bowl and a whole street section.

 

Still a hoax. Kinda like the stupid DJ’s.

 

The DJs were cracking a joke. The stupid ones are those who didn't verify from a reputable source.

 

Looks like I picked up a new quote in my signature. @Outbound

 

I was driving to work when the Mt Trashmore one was happening. To me it was obviously a prank. There were subtle hints, like route 64 instead of interstate 64.

 

thought that was the Matterhorn.