The Definitive Solution to the Upstate NY Question

[tirolski]

Doug's. There is only Doug's. Doug's is God, like Clapton.

Here ya go Pony.

Doug’s taint far from the Crossroad of Route 20 and Jordan Road in The UpState.

 

[tirolski]

Eerie canal’s bicentennial is this year.
Twas big doins when we had “The Wedding of the Waters” in Clinton’s Ditch.

The rest is history,

Volunteers do amazing work at this place in Camillus ( @jamesdeluxe ).
Ya can bike along side it from Albany to Buffalo and kayak on it on the rebuilt aqueduct over non mile creek.

 

[tirolski]

This dude’s channel goes briefly into the high points of history of places in The UpState (some other NY places to boot).
They’re brief but well done. Some comments are interesting.

 

[Brownski]

There’s a new episode BTW- and it’s really really good this time

 

[tirolski]

Big Moose station at over 2000 feet is said to be the highest train station east of the Mississippi.

 

[tirolski]

An Essex County blast from the past with skiing Mount Pisgah to boot.

There’s other gems if ya watch it all.

 

[tirolski]

No joke, growing up western Suffolk County folks all said that upstate started at the GW. There is a big world out there. My mind was blown as a teenager when I realized Binghamton is in the 'Southern' Tier.

Hurricane Agnes came to The Southern Tier of NYS & Northern Tier of Pa. towards the end of the spring of ’72. We’ve been making pitstops in the area since I was a little kid on our drives to and from Western Pa. This year folks made a documentary of the flood.

Twas a big tragedy and left a mess. Folks have subsequently built some big-ass dams for flood control and recreations.

 

[tirolski]

I used to work at an agency that regulated water companies. The group that was responsible for Lawn Guyland companies was known as the WAWddah Division and the Upstate group was the WhattERR Division. Maybe that's the definitive answer.

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Whatdoya know about OCWA?
Onondaga County Water Authority.
Pronounced “aqua”
Big water main break affecting a lot of folks in The UpState.
Just in time for The Holidays.

McMahon: If residents of six CNY towns don’t conserve water, ‘we have serious challenges’

Without cutting back on water, some areas could lose water in less than a week.

www.syracuse.com

 

[tirolski]

Folk have been having public pressers to update folks on the big break.

https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/mcmahon-ocwa-heads-give-update-on-water-main-leak-pushing-thousands-of-central-new-yorkers-to-limit-water-use/

At Potsdam we took a course called "consumer economics". For our project we decided we would study Potsdam’s public H2O system then write a report. We toured the public water plant near the Raquette river, talked with employees, performed analyses of tap water samples and surveyed local folks who were consumers of the H2O. I think we got an A.

We didn’t have an engineering student on our project, as they were studying stuff across the river, but some were our friends and also consumers.