WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
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WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
More reading about salt domes and the strategic reserve - texascooppower.com/the-salty-hi...
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These underground pillars of salt are salt domes - geologic structures that began as layers of salt deposited by a very early Gulf in the Jurassic (160+ million years ago). As miles of sediment accumulated above them, the salt slowly began to flow upward under pressure as a huge column
Thought the geology would be neat but wow - when we say we store the strategic petroleum reserve in "salt caverns" that means we actually carved giant cisterns into truly massive underground pillars of ancient rock salt that slowly flowed upward through layers of sedimentary rock like geologic taffy
Okay I'm doing the deep dive myself and so far I've learned that they're actually salt domes, and they're the result of something called salt tectonics. Stay tuned, this is already awesome and I will report back.
So fondly remember going to see this on our trip to Disney when I was in HS - my dad, ever the joker, decided to amp up the special effects by grabbing the top of my head
These are all so cool but I really love the shots with trees!
And they look incredible under a UV/black light!
Okay I'm going to need a geology deep dive on the gulf coast salt caverns
My absolute favorite is when I find a post describing my exact issue and someone commented like 10 years ago with the fix, and there's a decade's worth of folks chiming in to say "thanks, this still works"
Reddit remains undefeated as the best place to find advice written by real humans about the very specific and annoying problem you're dealing with. Already this week I've fixed a weird computer thing and found a replacement for my much-beloved and discontinued favorite sports bra.
Yay yay! Very excited to read what's next for Dorothy Gentleman, ship's detective - I re-read the short and wonderful Murder by Memory this past weekend so my own memories would be fresh for the sequel.
What is it about preposterous adventure movies??? The heart wants what the heart wants - to be not bored, and sometimes unreasonably pleased.
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
The time change is dumb but at least it’s good for deer - shifting the evening commute away from dusk reduces deer deaths from car crashes!
The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.
The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.
This year I’m going on a guided hike with retired geology professor Bran Potter, one with wildflower expert Mary Priestley, and one with two naturalists who know a ton about plant behavior. Jonathan’s doing an off-trail ranger-guided hike into the old growth forest of Savage Gulf
Registration is open for this year’s Trails and Trilliums - a weekend of guided hikes, talks, workshops, a native plant sale, and this year a keynote by David Haskell. April 10-12 in Beersheba Springs. It’s super fun and always feels like early summer camp for nature nerds, highly recommend
I’m assuming your motorcycle has a bread basket
If you ever ride out to Monterey there is a bakery there that sells this rosemary thyme sourdough that makes the most incredible toast
Have we considered that all ufo sightings may be explained by Alexander Graham Bell and his gigantic tetrahedral kites
That is wild!
Even better than I imagined!
I feel like @cait.bsky.social and her followers are always good at digging up stuff like this
George Russell hyuck hyuck hyuck
Newly watching F1 because my family is obsessed and I keep hearing “George Russell” in my head like Nathan Lane as Mr. McAllister in the Gilded Age
Omg thank you finally instructions to make the dot go away (clicking doesn’t actually make you go live don’t worry)
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
His great great grandfather was a WWI vet and he's buried in Mt. Olivet! His great great great great grandfather is buried out in Hickman County and we know where the cemetery is! I haven't been this excited since we found that cemetery with @betsyphillips.bsky.social
We got so far back in one branch we were like "oh, he was actually born in North Carolina" but wait, that's because Tennessee didn't exist yet