Ruins of Detroit
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commando1
Old Man with a Hat
That I don't know. Sorry. It was substantial enough where he lived an extremely comfortable life in his latter years though.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
As always, it depends.
The Natives complain how Sebring has changed for the worse but then exuberantly proclaim how they love going to Home Depot, Walmart, Panera, Olive Garden, Bed, Bath, & Beyond.....
Nobody hears themselves talk out of both sides of their mouth.
tbm3fan
Old Man with a Hat
As always, it depends.
The Natives complain how Sebring has changed for the worse but then exuberantly proclaim how they love going to Home Depot, Walmart, Panera, Olive Garden, Bed, Bath, & Beyond.....
Nobody hears themselves talk out of both sides of their mouth.
The only place you would see me in is Home Depot, as for a DIY guy, there aren't many good size lumber/hardware stores anymore. Or even in the past within a decent travel distance. The rest of those places you can keep.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Where I live was a cattle ranch until the 60's.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Note how that "trail" is still in my back yard.
cool shots.
but excuse my ignorance of Florida topography .. what's the whitish soil (in both pics) or is that something else?
but excuse my ignorance of Florida topography .. what's the whitish soil (in both pics) or is that something else?
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
I cant help but wonder what he paid for it, what he got for it and what its worth today..
All rhetorical of course but thats where my mind goes. I find stuff like this extremely interesting
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
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commando1
Old Man with a Hat
One of the few people to buy acres of scrub pine and scrub oak on sandy nothing in the middle of nowhere and actually make a ton of money. Had he bought 20 minutes East, South, or West of there, it would still be today what it was 80 years ago.
Dumb luck on a real longshot or savvy visionary?
Sand. Very fine pure white sand called Sugar Sand.
ah...just like the beaches but in the "interior" of the state too. wow.
i need to read up on how this came to be (probably because the whole state was underwater just a few million years ago) and what the chemistry/process of sugar sand. thx.
There's probably a layer of it all over and the cow path is lower than the rest because they wore through the dirt layer covering it from years of them following the same path
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that sure seems to be the case. and it makes perfect sense - now.
my narrow experience "beaches' and "deserts" are where you find "sand". everywhere else you find "dirt" - not true but that was my limited view
"white" sand has a high calcium/limestone content it seems, hence the color. the calcium is from pulverized corals/sea creatures (different colored sand is from other eroded/pulverized rock) from the sedimentary limestones formed under seawater.
the whole state of Florida apparently is dirt over limestone over bedrock .. limestone is soft, erodes relatively easily versus much harder rocks and sometimes disastrously (sinkholes), etc. -- because just a blink of geological time ago (40 million years) it was completely underwater.
so long geological story short, this "sugar sand" is everywhere in Florida. More visible/closer to the surface in parts of the state (the beaches, commando1's neighborhood) than other parts.
learn something everyday.
Maybe he made his own luck
Noah Cross .. one of my favorite movie bad guys. lets hope commando1's uncle was a nicer feller
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
If I go out back and grab a handful of sand, it will be filled with seashells and tiny shark's teeth along with other marine artifacts.
Sebring was the first area in the entire Peninsula to pop up out of the oceans as the waters receded. A lake minutes from me is the oldest known lake in the eastern part of the U.S.
Being all beach sand and scrub, it is exactly like being on the ocean shoreline. Being here reminds me of being on Cape Cod.
The rest if the country has no clue what it's really like here. They think of Disney World or Miami. Totally wrong.
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time travel via "thought" exercise. thats how Einstein conceptualized time dilation before he wrote a single equation. i digressed on purpose
30-40 million years ago, a big a** limestone rock (that would become comnando1's back yard) emerged from the ocean.
millions of years of wind and waves put down layers and layers of white sand while other parts of the rock were still underwater.
fast forward and that ancient first sandy beach never got too far from the surface...i'd bet its still not the best soil for growing things is it?
its still more like the prehistoric wind/wave/rain eroded "beach" it was for millions of years in that regard vs other areas in the state.
fascinating stuff (to me anyway)
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Citrus trees are just about the only thing that likes our sandy soil.
Stange how the topic moved from Detroit to a rural city 2hrs from anything.
FWIW, I'm good for a while. Miami is flucked.
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yeah, it'll be a few hundred thousand years before you'll need to break out the "sugar sand" bags. miami may only have about 40,000 years
.the Detroit thing may have run its course in this thread...the points have been made. in a few decades we'll know how that story turns out.
