Monday, August 11
I was puzzled as to why, in an area where land is obviously at a premium, Bowral west of the railway line remains almost entirely undeveloped.
Large level expanse of land, there for the taking.
Large level expanse of land... At a lower elevation than the rest of the town.
Doh!
It's a floodplain. The floodplain of the Wingecarribee River, I'd guess.
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On the highway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, right at the CA/NV border on the NV side, there's the first casino resort. It's like 20 feet from the state line. And it's surrounded by a big, flat, open area where there's nothing. No roads, no buildings, nothing at all.
One time coming back from vacation I found out why. There had been a real freak storm, and the entire area was under water albeit not very much water; a couple of feet. Given that it's desert, I finally realized that it was a dry lake bed. The resort didn't flood, but that's because it's on a small rise. (In fact, it looks to me like it's fill.)
We ignore hydrology at our peril.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, August 12 2008 06:22 AM (+rSRq)
I've tried ~10 times over the course of a half-hour or so, no joy. My 'net connection is solid, so that's not it.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled comment thread.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, August 12 2008 12:43 PM (AW3EJ)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, August 12 2008 01:56 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, August 12 2008 02:09 PM (PiXy!)
Still no joy. It DID let me upload 12kb of a 140kb file, but then gave me the same error.
I just tried to upload a 22kb file, and that worked, but the bigger one coughed and died.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, August 12 2008 02:28 PM (qBCpG)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, August 12 2008 02:32 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, August 12 2008 02:33 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, August 12 2008 02:33 PM (+rSRq)
Not so good news: another, of the same size, didn't, same error message.
Maybe it's just .mu.nu? Or just me?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, August 12 2008 03:43 PM (AW3EJ)
When I get home tonight I'll try uploading some files of various sizes and see what happens.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, August 12 2008 04:12 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, August 12 2008 10:00 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, August 12 2008 11:53 PM (PiXy!)
Probably just a glitch in the intarwebs, but I'll letcha know if it pops up again.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, August 14 2008 12:24 PM (AW3EJ)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, August 14 2008 01:57 PM (PiXy!)
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