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kescusay ,
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I miss summers when everything wasn’t on fire.

FlyingSquid ,
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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…

tills13 ,

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.

FlyingSquid ,
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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.

PenisDuckCuck9001 ,

Rhode Island is about 52 square ar-15 bud lights per bald eagle in size.

ShepherdPie ,

Oh I see. You should have lead with that.

werefreeatlast ,

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

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

FireTower ,
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It’s 4 times larger than LA.

FlyingSquid ,
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Thanks. That’s what I thought.

Wilzax ,

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 ,

About 50 miles by about 40 miles

FlyingSquid ,
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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.

disguy_ovahea ,

Here’s a map of the fires.

fire.airnow.gov

NineMileTower ,

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

dwemthy ,

A long ass fucking time ago in a town called Kickapoo

vzq ,

Another entry in “Americans measuring thing in everything but measurement units”

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

T00l_shed ,

What’s that in metric?

atomicorange ,

Calf muscles as big as charentais melons.

treadful ,
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600 square miles (1,553 square km)

IphtashuFitz ,

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.

timewarp ,
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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.

Montagge ,

Damn near was a couple years ago

SayJess ,
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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

Atelopus-zeteki ,
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Neither is it rode. But it IS LAND. Even scientists can't explain it.

Ioughttamow ,

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

roy_mustang76 ,

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.

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