new york's volcano!!!
By CraftyCorner
@CraftyCorner (5600)
United States
July 31, 2008 10:25pm CST
New York has it all, including a tiny volcano in New York Harbor.
Smug New Yorkers who revel in California's frequent natural disasters
should be reminded that we too are liable to get a few shakes of our own.
For there is a long dormant fault running down the Hudson Valley, which
gives off a wiggle from time to time as practice, perhaps for the "Big
Show." Nonsense, you say, there is no Ring of Fire here! But there is
and the evidence is right in New York Harbor: Governor's Island. What
seems to be a flat bit of rock, topped by a swanky Coast Guard station is
actually the sleeping caldera of an admittedly tiny volcano, Mauna Guvna.
The Coast Guard station is completely heated by geothermal means.
Smug New Yorkers who revel in California's frequent natural disasters
should be reminded that we too are liable to get a few shakes of our own.
For there is a long dormant fault running down the Hudson Valley, which
gives off a wiggle from time to time as practice, perhaps for the "Big
Show." Nonsense, you say, there is no Ring of Fire here! But there is
and the evidence is right in New York Harbor: Governor's Island. What
seems to be a flat bit of rock, topped by a swanky Coast Guard station is
actually the sleeping caldera of an admittedly tiny volcano, Mauna Guvna.
The Coast Guard station is completely heated by geothermal means.1 person likes this
2 responses
@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
1 Aug 08
This paragraph is copied word for word from a site called "The New York That Really Never Was". It is a grouping of parody writings last copyrighted in 1999. [v4.1] Copyright 1995,1996,1997 J. Henry H. Lowengard and © 1999 Henry Lowengard. (http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/tnytrnw.html)
As for Governor's Island, here is what Wikipedia states: From 1966 to 1996 the island served as a major United States Coast Guard installation. All but 13% of the island (which was doubled in size in 1900, not by a volcano, but by the diggings from a subway tunnel) is owned by the State of New York. The 13% belongs to the US Dept. of the Interior as the Governor's Island National Monument ( http://www.nps.gov/gois ). There is no currently operating Coast Guard Station there, swanky or otherwise.
You can learn more about this history of this island just off of Manhattan's island in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Island.
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
1 Aug 08
I fudged. I'll admit it.
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I do it when my corporal tunnel syndrome bites me yet I want to pass something along that startles me bad, yet I hurt too much to write a lot. I was so startled by the ideal of a volcano in New York I didn't research it at all.
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I got these factoids from an email from a friend and wanted to t pass it on, not from a website.
@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
27 Aug 08
I had a nastier diagnosis for the corporal tunnel ache. It's not just corporal tunnel. It turned out to be a manifestation of Fibermyagia plus corporal tunnel. Fortunately, I can manipulate the mouse with both hands so I suffer relatively minimally as I sit in front of the computer more than I should. That's because I am a shut in.
@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
2 Aug 08
I was born a skeptic, apparently. I check out everything that comes my way (particularly political and religious emails that proliferate during voting seasons). But, I was interested in this because I'm only 2 hours from NYC and remember the earthquake of Feb 1973 (can be found on the USGS site). I know there are faults in our area and that some day we may learn the hard way. All the sand we live on will act like quicksand and we'll be back under the sea (cue Disney tune here) as we once were thousands of years ago.
I understand about the carpal tunnel, though. Have the beginnings of it myself.
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
1 Aug 08
It's worth a giggle considering all the ribbing California gets for wiggling. I don't know how small a 'small' caldera is, but your right, the Big Apple would be 'sauced'!
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Sorry for the pun...
