Sometimes I worry about Google Maps
May. 7th, 2007 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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I was talking to a friend in Columbus, Ohio, and asked whether he'd been affected by the tornadoes in Kansas, because I thought the middle of America was all one place.
To drive from Columbus, Ohio to Greensburg, Kansas is 1541 kilometres; almost exactly the same distance as to drive from Cambridge to Vienna. People rarely ask me whether my house is dry when they've heard that the Danube's flooded in Austria.
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Date: 2007-05-07 03:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-07 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-07 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-07 03:04 pm (UTC)(I'm not sure whether Ohio gets tornadoes; Michigan certainly does, but not
the big classical twisters you see in Kansas)
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Date: 2007-05-08 12:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-07 04:05 pm (UTC)When we went to Arizona on the train, we did get to see quite a bit of the middle of the US. There was a lot of it. We slept through Kansas, both ways.
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Date: 2007-05-07 04:25 pm (UTC)