This REALLY ticked me off when I lived in NY

[Sigarms]

New York state truly is beautiful.I live in the St.Lawrence River Valley(think Thousand Islands),foot hills of the Adirondack Mountains(the Park is 6 million acres).The scenery is beautiful,the hunting and fishing great.I can see Canada out my front door;so we are about as much removed from the city as possible.

Made a couple of drives to the Massena area when I lived in NY.

The St. Lawrence offers some of the best scuba diving with visability for shipwreck sights in the North IMO.

It is a beautiful area.

 

[Jstpssng]

New York state truly is beautiful.I live in the St.Lawrence River Valley(think Thousand Islands),foot hills of the Adirondack Mountains(the Park is 6 million acres).The scenery is beautiful,the hunting and fishing great.I can see Canada out my front door;so we are about as much removed from the city as possible.

I could never quite figure out how the park was set up. It seems like much of it's on private land, perhaps with conservation easements?

I was working on private land down around North Lake, and was all packed up to come home so parked in the shade where I was going into the woods so that my computer and the other contents wouldn't get cooked.
When I came out of the woods at the end of the day I found a note from a NY ranger saying that if I parked there again my truck would towed to park headquarters... it was 20 miles to the nearest town. My very survival depends on my truck being there at the end of the day with spare water and food; taking it would have been my death warrant. I had to stop by my client's office on the way home so I gave him the note and said "you had better take care of this."

All that I could think was that 100 years ago they hung horse thieves; now they make them New York Park Rangers.

 

[check]

Well, all of you non-NY'ers are welcome, because so far his presidential ambitions have been side-tracked by his gubernatorial struggles.

"Gubernatorial" - love that term. Did you know it came from the Andy Griffith show? LOL

 

[smstonypoint]

"Gubernatorial" - love that term. Did you know it came from the Andy Griffith show? LOL

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A clear case of homophone confusion: "Gubernatorial" versus "Goobernatorial."

Here's an example of the correct usage of "Goobernatorial" in a sentence.

"Judy, Judy, Judy" and "Ain't you got a jack?" are Goobernatorial.

Steve

 

[Oaktree]

I was working on private land down around North Lake, and was all packed up to come home so parked in the shade where I was going into the woods so that my computer and the other contents wouldn't get cooked.
When I came out of the woods at the end of the day I found a note from a NY ranger saying that if I parked there again my truck would towed to park headquarters... it was 20 miles to the nearest town. My very survival depends on my truck being there at the end of the day with spare water and food; taking it would have been my death warrant. I had to stop by my client's office on the way home so I gave him the note and said "you had better take care of this."

Did you ever find out why your truck was ticketed? Were there perhaps "no parking" signs that could have been more obvious or just some unwritten rule to that regard...a rule you were "just supposed to know about"?

Other large cities (except for maybe bean town)...don't make a big deal and media show about how "together" they are when a disaster happens...They act like they expect the rest of the nation stop what they're doing and notice how important they think they are...

Not making light of the 911 terrorist attack in any way...But something that always "ticked me off"...was the way so many of the ny'ers refused to wear dust masks during the clean up...but later came whining and screaming for compensation for symptoms supposedly caused by harmful dust that they had been warned about prior to being exposed...

Again, how is that any different from any other city/state/region where regional pride has turned into arrogance. I won't name any, but 'most anyone here could rattle off a half dozen or so right off the top of their head. Yours may be different than mine.

As far as lack of dust masks on 9/11...OK, people do stupid things, or just don't think. Again, any worse than those who rebuild in flood, earthquake or wildfire-prone areas?

 

[Jstpssng]

Did you ever find out why your truck was ticketed? Were there perhaps "no parking" signs that could have been more obvious or just some unwritten rule to that regard...a rule you were "just supposed to know about"?

He thought I should have been in the parking lot 1/2 mile away. I walk enough over the course of the day, and was working for the landowner.
I'm not sure what he would have done on a previous trip down, when I parked at the same gate and ATVed around it... or the day that I pulled out my wrenches and let myself through another gate, because the land had just changed hands and the new owner/ client didn't have keys.
Every time I went down there I saw nice areas and beautiful wood, including cherry that I couldn't even believe existed. And DEER! I sat in my truck one Sept evening and counted over 150 in one field.

 

[nybirdman]

I could never quite figure out how the park was set up. It seems like much of it's on private land, perhaps with conservation easements?

I was working on private land down around North Lake, and was all packed up to come home so parked in the shade where I was going into the woods so that my computer and the other contents wouldn't get cooked.
When I came out of the woods at the end of the day I found a note from a NY ranger saying that if I parked there again my truck would towed to park headquarters... it was 20 miles to the nearest town. My very survival depends on my truck being there at the end of the day with spare water and food; taking it would have been my death warrant. I had to stop by my client's office on the way home so I gave him the note and said "you had better take care of this."

All that I could think was that 100 years ago they hung horse thieves; now they make them New York Park Rangers.

Much of the Adirondack Park is private land,a lot owned by paper mills and leased to hunting clubs.The state also owns quite a bit and also.The private owners are very protective of their property;a lot of big money people and don't want trespassers. The park is known for hiking the high peaks and canoeing,millions of visitors every year.Inside the "Blue Line" there are many restrictions to building and land use codes.

 

[Jstpssng]

Much of the Adirondack Park is private land,a lot owned by paper mills and leased to hunting clubs.The state also owns quite a bit and also.The private owners are very protective of their property;a lot of big money people and don't want trespassers. The park is known for hiking the high peaks and canoeing,millions of visitors every year.Inside the "Blue Line" there are many restrictions to building and land use codes.

The lease holders can get pretty testy, also. We've had a couple incidents where somebody has been threatened while on the job, and they don't care that we are working for the person who holds their lease.

 

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Again, how is that any different from any other city/state/region where regional pride has turned into arrogance. I won't name any, but 'most anyone here could rattle off a half dozen or so right off the top of their head. Yours may be different than mine.

As far as lack of dust masks on 9/11...OK, people do stupid things, or just don't think. Again, any worse than those who rebuild in flood, earthquake or wildfire-prone areas?

The biggest part of what makes it different for nyc is...it gets the media coverage because it's a media base...other cities in the N.E. are not quite as bad...

The peeve about the clean up workers is they were told to wear the supplied masks...many of those refusing to wear the masks were the first in the lines for handouts after the fact...my comment had nothing to do with rebuilding after a disaster...

 

[goeduck]

"Goobernatorial."

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