I have floated the slogan before, and I had some really good responses from a few people. The main detractors seemed to fixate on the point that there are areas of prairie east of Brandon.
They are kind of missing the point. Besides, there is a lot of truth in saying that the Great Plains begin in Brandon. There are areas of prairie to the east, but it is west of the city that the prairie landscape seems to continue uninterrupted; east the prairie gets broken up by areas such as the Carberry Sandhills. Brandon is the first major settlement firmly situated on the prairie.
Other arguments have said that the Great Plains refers to the American plains, a semantic argument at most, and not completely true. Then we can at least lay claim to it for the future. Municipal , opinion. If Cozad, Nebraska Pop can do it, I would think we can. Next Post Pot, lies, and audiotape…. Recent Rants: Presidential Alert? But, many then, and Hip Head Ian Durham now, claim to have been at that show, and it was definitely in So, it happened after the release of this record and can't possibly be the story behind this lyric.
At the infamous Buffalo show, a shoe hit Gord, he walked off stage and the rest is Hip history. So, if you know of any other Buffalo lore, let me know. The boys played there many times before Buffalo could have been used simply because it rhymes with Hengelo. The second incident referenced is great because not only is the story a keeper, but the aftermath was caught on tape. During a tour of the Netherlands in the early 90's the Hip's tour manager, Dave Powell, got lost attempting to drive the boys to their show in Hengelo.
As Powell attempted to navigate the van around the narrow and unmarked European streets, the band members sat in the back and drank. They estimated potential evapotranspiration — the amount of water the atmosphere could potentially extract from the surface — from the land based on temperature, wind speed, solar radiation and relative humidity.
The ratio of actual precipitation to potential evapotranspiration provides the aridity index. The th meridian runs from pole to pole, degrees longitude west of the prime meridian in Greenwich, England. It cuts through six U. Powell identified this line as marking the point where the average annual rainfall dropped from 61 centimeters on the eastern edge to 46 centimeters at the western edge. New research shows a sharp aridity gradient still exists, but it's moved east a bit, closer to the 98th meridian.
Climate models predict it will move farther eastward in coming decades. Credit: National Atlas, modified by K. Cantner, AGI. Climate models project that the aridity gradient will move eastward by an additional two to three degrees by , Lis says. That is due to expected increases in potential evapotranspiration driven by warming, rather than by decreases in precipitation, he adds. They noted that aridity will likely increase at all longitudes across the Great Plains and that the existing gradient will weaken, blurring the boundary between east and west.
This eastward shift in aridity will be most evident in the southern and central Plains, and less so in the north. Both farming and water management will be affected by these changes in coming decades, the team noted. Traditionally, the researchers wrote, the Midwestern farm economy has reflected the east-west aridity gradient: the density of farms is highest between the 90th and th meridians at all latitudes, and uniformly lower west of the th meridian, where far more extensive irrigation is used.
This sign in Dodge City, Kan. That is because, in arid areas, farms must be larger to be profitable, Seager says. The Dust Bowl droughts of the s led to larger farms amid the Great Plains for that reason, he says. What farmers plant is also determined by the aridity of their land, the researchers note. At present, corn is the dominant crop in the east, especially in the northern Plains.
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