Re: Nebula finalists 2010

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:14:44 -0600, "Jay E. Morris"
<morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
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<is Texas a desert?>
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Admittedly I haven't been to Fort Worth much or in a long time but I
don't remember it being desert.
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According to this Nations Online Project map I'd say maybe 20% is desert.
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https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/USA/texas_map.htm
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Scroll down a bit.

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I clicked on it.
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I was greeted with all sorts of ... stuff.
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And more stuff I had to ignore when I tried to leave.
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Well, one thing can be said for it: it's persistant.
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Hopefully, my Full Virus Scan tomorrow won't find any surprises.
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The land-form list seems to feature a lot of dry parts, some actually
containing areas with "desert" in their name.
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But, IIRC, East Texas may be soggier than the rest of the State.
Something about "piney woods thinning out as you move West onto the
plains".
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Of course, if we define, say, any County with less that a given
population density as "desert" (using an older sense where the focus
was on a lack of people living there and not on sand and heat), there
would (I suppose) be a /lot/ of deserts.
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