FSchmertz

FSchmertz t1_jacqbd1 wrote

Reply to comment by CloudDweller182 in Jessie Diggins is first U.S. cross-country skier to win individual world title by smackslips

Guessing you have a few less people than the US?

If you have less to pick from, you're less likely to find the "best in the world."

It's just that the US didn't have that many X-C skiers in the past, and still doesn't have a lot of places with the necessary snow for it.

Signed Captain Obvious? ;)

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FSchmertz t1_j9co6cw wrote

Reply to TIL: The Graveyard of the Pacific is a place where 2,000 ships have wrecked and more than 700 lives have been lost. This is due to unpredictable weather conditions, including storms and fog, and dangerous coastal characteristics, including shifting sandbars, tidal rips, and rocky reefs. by iboughtarock

It's interesting that there's also place on the East coast, around the Hatteras Barrier Islands/Outer Banks area of North Carolina, that's known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_of_the_Atlantic

>More than 5,000 ships have sunk in these waters since record-keeping began in 1526

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FSchmertz t1_j0x5zru wrote

Reply to comment by Emotional_Dare5743 in Hurricanes Reveal 19th-Century Shipwreck Hidden Beneath Florida Beach by That-Situation-4262

Sounds very similar to what was at the barrier islands of North Carolina. That area is referred to as "The Graveyard of the Atlantic." It's the area that the Labrador Current and the Gulf Current intersect, building up sandbars and such.

Much of the housing (and economy really) originated by materials from the frequent shipwrecks, and they had rescue stations all along the coast with some very brave people who made frequent and extraordinary rescues of ship crews.

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FSchmertz t1_itnciok wrote

Reply to comment by css01 in Ravine Lake, Far Hills by css01

And pretty sure the Far Hills Country Day School is up the road more towards Bernardsville (East), so I'd expect at least that side of the lake to be Far Hills.

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FSchmertz t1_itmdo6b wrote

Reply to comment by Revolutionary-Bus962 in Ravine Lake, Far Hills by css01

Used to travel up that way near Halloween. Blairsden is a classic old English manor house right out of old horror movies!

P.S. I guess wiki is indicating it's actually Beaux-Arts style

P.P.S. Ravine Lake used to have a private club, don't know if it still exists. Built by Mr. Blair I think as part of his estate.

P.P.P.S. Blairsden is supposedly in Peapack-Gladstone.

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FSchmertz t1_irkwpwp wrote

Reply to TIL of Joseph Trombino, a security guard who survived the 1981 Brink’s robbery in Nyack, NY. He continued working for the company for the next 20 years, was nearly killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and was ultimately killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. by schmo_hawk

From this

http://notanothernewenglandsportsblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/joseph-trombino-brinks-guard-who-had.html

>Joe Trombno was about a year away from retirement on the morning of September 11th. According to co-workers, he stayed in the underground garage with his truck when the planes hit, calling the Brinks dispatcher and inquiring about the whereabouts of the gurads who had gone into the WTC buildings to make a pickup (they had managed to escape but had no means of communication). Trombino told the Brinks office in his last phone call that water was starting to seep in and the walls were starting to crumble around him.

Another link from his obituary:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/corning-observer/name/francis-trombino-obituary?pid=110632%26utm_source%3Dfacebook%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dobitsharebeta

>Now 68, he was at last planning to retire in a year or so, his wife said. But on Tuesday, as ever, he was up at 2:30 a.m. and out by 3:30 a.m., to make it to work in Brooklyn by 5 a.m. A little after 9 a.m., he was waiting in the armored truck in the basement of the trade center for his three fellow guards to return from the 11th floor. They made it to safety. Joseph called into Brink's from a pay phone, his wife said, to say a policeman had told him to move the truck. The building was shaking and water was cascading down, Joseph said, before the line went dead.

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