• Flying Squid
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    423 months ago

    If I had a good concept of Rhode Island’s size beyond ‘smaller than all of the other states,’ that would be a useful description.

    • @werefreeatlast
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      103 months ago

      Non problem, soon it will be the size of more recognizable cities.

      • Flying Squid
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        43 months ago

        Is Rhode Island the state smaller than any U.S. city?

        • @FireTower
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          63 months ago

          It’s 4 times larger than LA.

          • @Wilzax
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            43 months ago

            It’s closer to 2-3 times larger, depending how you count

            Rhode Island is 1545 sq mi, 1034 of which are land.

            Los Angeles (the city, not the county) is 501.55 sq mi, 469.49 of which are land.

            So by total area, Rhode Island is 3.08 times the size of Los Angeles.

            Counting only land, Rhode Island is only 2.20 times the size of Los Angeles.

    • @AbidanYre
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      3 months ago

      About 50 miles by about 40 miles

      • Flying Squid
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        33 months ago

        See, now I have an idea of how long a mile is, unlike how big Rhode Island is. If only they had just told me how big it was in miles.

    • @thouartfrugal
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      3 months ago

      Brave friend of mine went into Forest Conservation and Firefighting, got calf muscles big as cantaloupes!

    • @IphtashuFitz
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      23 months ago

      Using states as a unit of measure for forest fires seems to be a common thing. A couple decades ago I flew into Fairbanks Alaska , and as we were getting close to landing the pilot told everybody not to panic if we smelled smoke because it was just the forest fires that were covering an area the size of Massachusetts.

  • Jessica
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    143 months ago

    I’m a little verklempt. Discuss amongst yourselves.

    Here, I’ll give you a topic: Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island.

    Discuss

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      Time to teach a fun fact!

      Up until 2020, the official name of Rhode Island was State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

      Providence and surrounding towns on the mainland were the “Providence Plantations”, and Newport and Portsmouth, on the island also known as Aquidneck Island, were the Rhode Island part of the equation.

    • Ioughttamow
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      23 months ago

      Have you ever seen Rhode Island and Rhodes in the same place? No? I rest my case.

  • @kescusay
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    133 months ago

    I miss summers when everything wasn’t on fire.

    • @tills13
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      43 months ago

      We’re literally at a point where a small to medium size town is wiped off the map every year here in Canada. Lytton last year and Jasper this year. Will anything be done about it? No… Maybe some pearl clutching and prayers but nothing concrete.

    • Flying Squid
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      23 months ago

      Hey, my house hasn’t burnt down this summer yet.

      We’re out $3000 because a huge storm knocked down our huge oak trees, but…

  • John Richard
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    63 months ago

    Sometimes in the gorge we get really windy days. One of these fires on a windy day after a dry spell could be one of the worst disasters in human history.

  • @NineMileTower
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    53 months ago

    That’s about the size of Kickapoo, Illinois. Probably. Maybe