the big here
Brent Finnegan -- April 10th, 2007
How much do you know about where you live?
I saw this quiz called “the big here” (via Waldo’s blog) a while ago, and Thanh and I have been talking about it recently. Since she knows a lot more about local watershed issues than I do, she’s helping me come up with a list of answers (to the best of our knowledge anyway). I selected ten and rewrote a few. We’ll post the answers we came up with sometime later this week. In the meantime, give it a try:
1) Trace the water in your house from rainfall to the tap.
2) How many feet above sea level are we?
3) Where does your electricity come from? How is it generated?
4) What watersheds and sub-watersheds do we live in? When rain runs off your roof, where does it go?
5) What happens to your garbage when the city takes it?
6) Where do the recyclables go?
7) When you flush, what happens to the wastewater and solids?
8) Where is the nearest wilderness? When was the last time a fire burned through it?
9) From which direction do storms usually come?
10) Where is the nearest earthquake fault line?
…Check back in a few days for the answers, since I don’t have them all yet.
Brent, this quiz is great! I had fun doing it, and I hope others at least give it a mental try if not post their answers here too. It definately made me realize that I don’t know a lot of things about my community, and it gave me a thirst to search for the answers…
Yes, people should go ahead and answer the ones you know (or at least think you know).
Presumably it’s cheating to look it up.
Meh. Not really. I had to. Some of them may not even be on the Internet.
1. Dry R., treatment plant, pipes. 2. 1,000. 3. Vepco to HEC; coal, nuke and hydro grid. 4. Chesapeake; Blacks Run to North River to S. Fork of Shenandoah, to Shenandoah, to Potomac. 5. Burned for steam for JMU heating and cooling; ashes hauled to county dump. 6. Heaven? 7. Pipes to plant to N. River. 8. St. Mary’s; don’t know. 9. I’ve always heard that if a storm hits the Valley just above Roanoke it will roll to Pennsylvania like a bowling ball, but west is probably the real right answer, albeit less poetic. 10. Do I get extra credit for knowing that a small one hit Charlottesville in 2001?