Random Photos You Took - Page 55

Urban Sky · #**1081** Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 3:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by BTinSF

View out MY windows:

San Francisco

wow, those clouds are awesome...

LostInTheZone · #**1082** Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 9:10 PM**

beautiful views BT- how do most San Franciscans feel about the Sutro Tower? I love it- it looks like something Godzilla would knock over:

GO_UAE · #**1083** Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 10:11 PM**

Watch my parent bought me when i first graduated from highschool and most expensive thing i was ever given back in those days

BTinSF · #**1084** Posted **Mar 16, 2007, 11:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by LostInTheZone

how do most San Franciscans feel about the Sutro Tower? I love it- it looks like something Godzilla would knock over:

I would say "most" are fairly ambivalent about it. It's an interesting thing on the skyline, but the people who live around it complain and whine a lot about microwave radiation giving them brain cancer and the possibility the thing will fall over in an earthquake and crush them. With the onset of digital and HD broadcast TV, there's a plan to put new antennae on it and and possibly enlarge it and the NIMBY's are a bit out of control over all that: http://www.sutro.org/ .

You might enjoy this quote from Herb Caen (deceased SF Chronicle columnist and local icon): “I keep waiting for it to stalk down the hill and attack the Golden Gate Bridge.”

BTinSF · #**1085** Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 12:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by Urban Sky

wow, those clouds are awesome...

This is one of the things about living in SF: Those low clouds (locally called "fog" or the "marine layer" creep in from the sea most afternoons in summer. The city's central hills (Twin peaks, Mt. Davidson) block them from the downtown area until they build up enough to pour like liquid over the top of the hills and down the side through the Castro and Haight neighborhoods. Since I live closer to downtown, I get to watch this out the window--usually at just about 4 in afternoon but on very clear days sometimes later as in the photo I posted. They usually reach my place, closer to downtown, a hour or two later and by 9 PM the whole city is swirling in mist. Usually the last place to be enveloped is the Mission District so it has a reputation for being the city's warmest, sunniest neighborhood. Sometimes to the west of the hills out by the ocean (Richmond, Sunset neighborhoods), they get no sun at all in July and August.

Urban Sky · #**1086** Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 10:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by BTinSF

This is one of the things about living in SF: Those low clouds (locally called "fog" or the "marine layer" creep in from the sea most afternoons in summer. The city's central hills (Twin peaks, Mt. Davidson) block them from the downtown area until they build up enough to pour like liquid over the top of the hills and down the side through the Castro and Haight neighborhoods. Since I live closer to downtown, I get to watch this out the window--usually at just about 4 in afternoon but on very clear days sometimes later as in the photo I posted. They usually reach my place, closer to downtown, a hour or two later and by 9 PM the whole city is swirling in mist. Usually the last place to be enveloped is the Mission District so it has a reputation for being the city's warmest, sunniest neighborhood. Sometimes to the west of the hills out by the ocean (Richmond, Sunset neighborhoods), they get no sun at all in July and August.

we have marine layer down here in san diego too, but just not hills in the middle of the city.

Derek · #**1087** Posted **Mar 18, 2007, 3:10 AM**

i like the Sutro Tower too

KevinFromTexas · #**1088** Posted **Mar 18, 2007, 4:09 AM**

Those shots of San Francisco are stunning.

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Originally Posted by BTinSF

You might enjoy this quote from Herb Caen (deceased SF Chronicle columnist and local icon): “I keep waiting for it to stalk down the hill and attack the Golden Gate Bridge.”

Ha, it is a bit like a tripod from War of the Worlds isn't it? I've always loved the Sutro Tower, too.

Derek · #**1089** Posted **Mar 18, 2007, 4:19 AM**

how tall is that thing?

Upward · #**1090** Posted **Mar 18, 2007, 10:15 AM**

297.7 M, 977'.

So, taller than any of the skyscrapers in the city, and also up a pretty high hill. My question is: how high is the hill?

GO_UAE · #**1091** Posted **Mar 18, 2007, 10:46 AM**

i know the area i live in sucks , but thats what you get for not being ultra rich in the UAE

That Grey Opel is mine

Urban Sky · #**1092** Posted **Mar 18, 2007, 7:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by GO_UAE

i know the area i live in sucks , but thats what you get for not being ultra rich in the UAE

That Grey Opel is mine

so how much on average does a really nice place out there cost? (in US $ if possible)

Urban Sky · #**1093** Posted **Mar 18, 2007, 7:06 PM**

Tijuana, Mexico

Urban Sky · #**1094** Posted **Mar 18, 2007, 7:09 PM**

Crazy-ass Squirrels

Vashon118 · #**1095** Posted **Mar 19, 2007, 3:22 AM**

Stripped down computer at 2nd & Pike in Seattle.

Derek · #**1096** Posted **Mar 19, 2007, 3:26 AM**

squirrels!!!

Derek · #**1097** Posted **Mar 19, 2007, 3:29 AM**

oh the Sutro Tower sits atop Mount Sutro, which is 909 feet...so if the Sutro Tower is 977 feet...then the top of the tower is 1886 feet above sea level

Urban Sky · #**1098** Posted **Mar 19, 2007, 4:19 AM**

damn son, you know youre stuff

Matty · #**1099** Posted **Mar 19, 2007, 4:35 AM**

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Staten Island's 9/11 memorial.

Matty · #**1100** Posted **Mar 19, 2007, 4:36 AM**

Staten Island's 9/11 memorial.