Posted on 02/24/2006 5:51:38 AM PST by Spunky
No Umatilla dam. Ice Harbor is the closest, then McNary, Bonneville, Grand Coulee is about 150 miles and the biggest of all. They do a real neat laser light show on it.
I've heard of that. Oh yeah, McNary. Isn't Ice Harbor actually on the Snake River?
Pasco is. It got a bad rap for many years though, but it is the best laid out and well kept. Years ago it was the busiest of the three cities as far as shopping went but then everything went to Kennewick and Pasco became pretty much a bedroom community. That is changing now though. They are really growing and lots of new business are coming to Pasco.
Interesting. Is the Hanford site still around there?
You can! Canadians came from England you know:)
I apologize. My comments were over the top and uncalled for.
I guess I'm just cranky today.
I guess I'm just cranky today.
Are your gears out of whack?
BTW, thanks for posting this thread, I've learned a lot.
Not even a tourest.
A traveling teepee to teepee salesman of magazines, cheap Asian knock-off trinkets, and artificial caribou hide siding.
Having grown up in the Tri-Cities (Kennewick, specifically), and attended the first 5 Hydro races there, starting in 1966, I can clear that up for you.
The Columbia flows from British Columbia, South, and then forms a 3/4 horse shoe as it loops East, then South, then West. The Tri-Cities bracket the Columbia on the top side of this loop. Kennewick is about 25 miles North of the point where the river straightens out to head West, at Umitilla, OR.
Ocean going ships can sail all of the way to the Port of Pasco, WA, which is just to the East of the area the Hydro's race.
Mapquest can help.
Somebody said the results would be astounding or amazing. So far they are not.
Yes!
England, Ireland, Scotland, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Russia, France....
That was then. Now most are from Somalia, Pakistan, China, Iran, Iraq,.....
;-)
I hear there was some big salmon controversy too--the Indians wanted to get rid of the dams so that THEY could kill the salmon.
True. I've heard there's a LOT of different kinds of people in British Columbia.
Yes, and there is a Bill in the Legislature to make the B Reactor (part of the Manhattan Project) a National Museum. I sure hope they do as it would be a shame to tear it down.
Yes, and there is a Bill in the Legislature to make the B Reactor (part of the Manhattan Project) a National Museum. I sure hope they do as it would be a shame to tear it down.
Interesting. Did they make one of the atomic bombs there?
LOL! Probably.
Now I've got an image of the tin man from the Wizard of Oz in my head.
Now I've got an image of the tin man from the Wizard of Oz in my head.
Just make sure you're not wearing a tin foil hat with it. It would be a conspiracy if that happened.
I do believe that was the Scientist from the Smithsonian who said that and to him I am pretty sure it is astounding and amazing.
I myself find it very interesting since I live here. What I have learned is that since he was buried here there is the possibility that there was a whole community of his people who lived here over 9000 years ago and that it took almost 9000 years to populate this area again.
Canadians came from England France and Ireland (later Russians from the Ukraine and Pakistanis). In the 19th century Montreal was an Irish city that rivaled Boston in its makeup.
I know, I know...:)
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