Difference between revisions of "2009-10-30 33 -84"

Revision as of 01:48, 5 November 2009

Graticule

About

Near Centerville Georgia.

Expedition

After a fun filled day at work with Halloween parties, I decided to drive on out to this hash even though it was pouring down raining. I drive to the center of Atlanta and hop on I-20 heading east. Traffic is about average for this time maybe a little heavier because of the rain.

I pull up on the hash spot and notice a gate across the path to the service road to the power lines. [1]. I then noice that the fence is only about 50 feet long and stops in front of the house. I notice that there is not a side fence bordering the house[2].

I go and knock on the door of the house and an older gentleman answers the door. He opens the door to tell me that he isn't interested in any thing that I am selling and closes the door.

I knock again and tell him through the door that I am not selling anything that I am looking for something that happens to be on the property under the power lines. Through the door he says "Go ahead." Permission granted.

As I pulled up and parked under the High tension lines, I could hear the hum and sizzle of the power lines above me. I was actually worried at one point when I needed to climb a hill under the power lines with it raining as hard as it was, would I get a jolt of my life. At the top of the small hill I could feel the amount of electricity in the air and hurriedly walked down the hill to the hash spot.

I find the hash spot with 1.25 feet to go and take a few pictures. Soaked, I walk back to my truck walking around the hill avoiding getting shocked. I then drive to back to Norcross.

Gallery

Photo Gallery
Typical Atlanta traffic. 4 miles in 18 minutes.
102 feet to go.
Looks like stars but it is rain captured with the flash on the camera.
1.25 feet to go. Close enough.
Time of the meetup.
Looking up the hill from the Geohash spot.
Looking down the hill. Can you tell how hard it was raining?

Achievements

NWoodruff earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (33, -84) geohash on 2009-10-30.

NWoodruff earned the Consecutive geohash achievement

by reaching 10 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-10-21.

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 {{land geohash | latitude = 33 | longitude = -84| date = 2009-10-30| name = NWoodruff}}
+{{consecutive geohash | count = 10 | latitude = 33 | longitude = -84 | date = 2009-10-21 | name = NWoodruff }}
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