Pictures and video of our South Coast sledding rampage. That's South Coast, Massachusetts, player. If I had to go to war, I'd take one good sledder over 100 of those NASCAR folks driving circles in Alabama or wherever. This is Potato Hill in Westport. If you want to see a 250 pound 52 year old guy on a child's toy, look out below... Potato Hill is a popular spot with local sledders, but my kid had been pulled from school for a special sledding-related research project for a local media conglomerate, so we had the place to ourselves mostly. Potato Hill is a pretty steep climb if you smoke a pack a day or have the Covid or something. Next stop... the old Fairhaven Drive-In. We had to park sort of sketchy, but locals probably have a better plan for this than I did. Fairhaven has two hills, the closer one is less daunting, the farther one is steeper and has jumps. Pierce Playground, or Pierce Beach if you get going really fast and can't stop. Pierce Beach is in Somerset...
Today, we are going to assume that one side of the "Where Cape Cod ends" argument is correct, and that side is the "Cape Cod ends at the Canal" opinion. We're choosing this side because we're very interested in the follow-up questions to ending Cape Cod at the Canal. If you choose the Canal as the cutoff point, you have to reclassify several villages from two Cape towns. Almost all of Sandwich is east of the Canal, which is the Rubicon for this argument. Scusset Beach, however, is "on the mainland," but still part of Sandwich. Bourne has a greater chunk of town on the mainland, with Buzzards Bay, Bournedale and Sagamore Beach representing hard north of the Canal. Chopping these villages off of Cape Cod completely to make a new town is a fun idea for a columnist. They would make for a very small town. I don't think Scusset has any people at all. Buzzards Bay, with 3800 people, is Bourne's most populous village. Sagamore Beach isn't far...
A 3.6 Richter scale earthquake (downgraded from the original 4.0 designation) just hit in Buzzards Bay. We mean the body of water, not the village. It lasted 3-5 seconds, and I have reports of people feeling it from Pembroke to Westport. No tsunami warning is in effect, I don't think it was that big, It appears to be right off Westport/Dartmouth. 9 km SSW of Bliss Corner . Earthquakes happen a lot in New England, but they are generally very small, and it is rare to feel one. We don't live on any San Andreas Fault stuff. If a tsunami came, it would probably be smll enough that a well-built sandcastle could shake it off. No reports of damage. We'll be back with an update if needed.
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