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Famous Key West buoy burned after 2 set tree on fire
Washington Times ^ | 1-1-22 | unattributed

Posted on 01/01/2022 2:21:39 PM PST by dynachrome

Police are searching for two people who burned a part of Key West’s famous Southernmost Point buoy early New Year’s Day after setting a fire near the landmark tourism icon.

News outlets report two males lit a Christmas tree on fire in front of the buoy around 3:30 a.m. Saturday and the flames charred sections of the colorful, 4-ton cement monument that reads “90 miles to Cuba, Southernmost Point, Continental U.S.A.”

Archival webcam images of the buoy from a marketing company shows two people lighting the tree on fire near the marker, with the flames leaving a large black burn mark on the monument.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: buoy; burned; fl; florida; keywest
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To: skeeter

There is an island or two in the Aleutians on the other side of the Int’l date line IIRC.


21 posted on 01/01/2022 3:47:23 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: dynachrome

Leftards!


22 posted on 01/01/2022 3:47:23 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: FatherofFive

1. The farthest South - Hawaii

2. The farthest North - Alaska

3. The farthest East - Maine

4. The farthest West - Alaska


23 posted on 01/01/2022 3:51:38 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: digger48
had to stop and wait for a 4 foot iguana to cross the road

Should have just run the damn thing over. Lots of videos of contractors shooting the damn things with air rifles.......They number in the millions now and are still multiplying.

24 posted on 01/01/2022 3:52:00 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (They call me mellow yellow)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Really? They are dang good eating.


25 posted on 01/01/2022 3:54:19 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: Don W; FatherofFive

“Hawaii
Alaska
Alaska
Alaska”

Okay I’ll bite - how can Alaska be the most easterly *and westerly state at the same time?


26 posted on 01/01/2022 3:56:18 PM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: FatherofFive
Trivia question. Of the 50 US states, which is: 1. The farthest South

2. The farthest North

3. The farthest East

4. The farthest West

I realize that this is a trick question. I'll try to answer it in the way that I think makes the most sense, which probably isn't how you get the correct "trick answer", so you can correct me, I'm sure.

"East" and "West" are relative directions, that don't have a pole associated with them. (Unlike North and South.)

You can obviously get to any point on the earth by either traveling in either direction on the East-West axis. One can go from Nevada to California traveling due East - you just have to circle most of the earth to do this. But at no time will you be traveling West.

Oddly, North and South don't work this way. You can't go from Texas to Oklahoma without traveling North. If you tried the same "go South" trick that works with East-West you would travel South until you crossed the poll (or southern apogee of your trip, and then you would have to travel North to the North Pole (or northern Apogeee) and then finish by traveling south again.

So, for North and South it's easy: what's closest to either pole. It's Alaska and Hawaii.

For East and West, you need a starting point of reference.

If you say from Kansas City, Kansas (as roughly the geometric center of the USA) the furthest East would be Maine, the furthest West I think Alaska again.

Just because there are Longitude measurements with North and South in them, doesn't mean that logically Japan is East of Hawaii.

No one would say that Tokyo is East of Hawaii.

27 posted on 01/01/2022 3:58:31 PM PST by Vlad0
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To: AAABEST

The island of Attu is at 172 degrees East longitude.


28 posted on 01/01/2022 4:05:16 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Vlad0

Alaska straddles the 180deg parallel. East (looking at a globe with the Arctic at the top) is to the Right from the Prime Meridian, and, West is everything to the Left.

Some parts of Alaska are closer to 0 by moving to the Right on the globe, and, some are to the Left.

It’s also why our closest European neighbor is Russia.

It’s a longitude thing.


29 posted on 01/01/2022 4:09:42 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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To: AAABEST

See #21 There are a couple of Aleutian islands across the International date line.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-easternmost-point-in-north-america-is-actually-west-of-alaska.html


30 posted on 01/01/2022 4:10:15 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: FatherofFive

I just learned this week that one point of one of the Hawaiian Islands is further south than Key West. Of course it is not in CONUS.


31 posted on 01/01/2022 4:24:44 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: Don W; Billthedrill

Aha!

Nice.


32 posted on 01/01/2022 4:42:26 PM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Vlad0

“Just because there are Longitude measurements with North and South in them...”

There aren’t. The ones with North and South are measurements of latitude.


33 posted on 01/01/2022 4:46:33 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: digger48

I go down there frequently to meet up with family and the get the heck away from everything. Iguanas are everywhere.


34 posted on 01/01/2022 4:50:43 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

And chickens.


35 posted on 01/01/2022 4:53:01 PM PST by abb
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To: Rummyfan

All of Hawaii lies further south than Key West.


36 posted on 01/01/2022 4:53:02 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Real Cynic No More

It is repainted several times a year I think. Probably fixed on the next business day.


37 posted on 01/01/2022 4:57:17 PM PST by gunnut
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To: abb

Tons of chickens.


38 posted on 01/01/2022 5:13:59 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: digger48
I just drove on by. After I had to stop and wait for a 4 foot iguana to cross the road.

Was the iguana being chased by the chickens?

39 posted on 01/01/2022 5:18:47 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos

Was the iquanas chasing the chickens? I tell you my iguana story, many many years ago in South Florida during one of the rare freezes I walked out in my backyard to find a dead iquana in the grass. I went back inside figuring I would dispose of him later in warmer weather and when I later went out to do it he was not there, he warmed up and climbed back up the tree.


40 posted on 01/01/2022 5:52:17 PM PST by Rock N Jones (1935t)
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