I Can Give Directions
By Angie
@andriaperry (116936)
Anniston, Alabama
September 19, 2019 10:22am CST
I know people can look on a map, if so inclined to, but no matter how you look at it on paper, or the screen, its not really knowing exactly how far and how close one is to an actual city or area and most of all what the weather is like.
So... I live just outside the city of Anniston, Alabama. To divide the state in three sections, I am in the middle and east toward Georgia.
I am 60 minutes form downtown Birmingham.
I am 30 minutes to the Georgia state line or 90 minutes from Downtown Atlanta.
I am 2 hours from Huntsville.
I am 2 hours from Montgomery (state capital)
I am 3 hours from gulf shores.
We have the flat lands down to the beach and the mountains to the Tennessee state like. Anniston is more on the hilly side but we have many flat valley`s.
There are lakes and/or rivers just about anywhere you look in the state.
Weather wise we get a mix as well.
North Alabama actually gets more snow than anywhere in the state, on the cooler side for the summer, occasionally gets a tornado.
Central Alabama has mild winters and is hot and humid in the summer. We have thunderstorms and tornado`s.
Southern Alabama, we do have a small area of beach with Mobile and Gulf Shores, its hot and humid, and is known to get a hurricane from time to time, as well as the bad weather associated with being close to the Gulf of Mexico.
There ya go! that is how it is in Alabama, my home state for most of my life.
How about you? What is like where you live?
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@wolfgirl569 (105885)
• Marion, Ohio
19 Sep 19
Not too bad in the summer except when the humidity spikes. We get all four seasons with winter often pretty nasty either in extreme cold or lots of snow. Some years both of those. Tornadoes are normal here during the warmer months. The area I am in is all flat land but if you head south about 2 hours it starts getting hilly then a little farther it gets to be almost all hills.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Sep 19
Farm land id what I call the flats.
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@wolfgirl569 (105885)
• Marion, Ohio
19 Sep 19
@andriaperry That is mostly what is around us. It is easier to work than hills
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@GardenGerty (160621)
• United States
20 Sep 19
I am in the eastern part of Kansas, and a bit north. I live in an area known as the Flint Hills. Do not let anyone tell you Kansas is completely flat. We are three hours from Kansas City, Missouri. Three and a half hours from Oklahoma City, 1.5 hours from Wichita. If you head west you run into the flatness and the dryness, and the lack of trees. Our part of the state is cattle and farm country.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
20 Sep 19
Your state is one I have not visited yet.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Sep 19
Oh no! I have this talent now.... I go online and do a street map, them I get a visual map.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
19 Sep 19
I am not good at directions. I have gotten many people lost but let me see if I can do this.
I am in Eastern Canada in the south central portion of our province, along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the Saint John River.
I am an hour drive from the Maine state border in Calais.
We are a port city so we get many cruise ships visiting this area during the summer and early fall. Today we have three cruise ships in port with a total of 10,000 passengers. Always nice to talk to the people visiting the city.
People are very friendly here and always make tourists feel welcome.
We have a river system, numerous lakes, the bay and the Atlantic Ocean. I can be at any of them within minutes.
We are home of the highest tides in the world and the Reversing Falls.
We have fog almost every morning and evening so that keeps things cool in the summer. It is our natural air conditioning. We never have a night that it is too hot to sleep even in the summer months.
In the winters we have cold temps and tend to have more ice then snow. Snow usually quickly turns to rain/sleet/freezing rain which makes for an icy mess.
Falls is beautiful here with all the colored leaves. We have lots of trees so most people will take a drive in the fall to look at all the beautiful leaves.
I have lived in this province all of my life and in this area for over thirty years. Before that I lived in the northern part of the province. I like it here and really can't see me living anywhere else.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Sep 19
LOL. Today we have the 80`s, so I will go to work.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
19 Sep 19
@andriaperry We have 80s now but it will get worse.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
20 Sep 19
Here all I have to do if I am lost is look toward the mountains and I know that is WEST
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
20 Sep 19
LOL, that is all you need to know is the way home.
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@jstory07 (139550)
• Roseburg, Oregon
20 Sep 19
@andriaperry It rains nine months out of the year.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
20 Sep 19
Its okay. what kind of weather is normal for there.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
20 Sep 19
The cold of the north and the heat of the south.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
19 Sep 19
@andriaperry I am living in Florida about an hour away from Tampa and 1 1/2 hour away from Orlando. Other than that I can't tell you where I am. I am one of those directionally impaired people who can't read a map.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
21 Sep 19
@andriaperry I actually think it's a nice area but I can't stand the heat.
@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Sep 19
I know where you are now. I have been to both Tampa and Orlando.
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@Bensen32 (27610)
• United States
19 Sep 19
Wow now I know where you live
Let see, I live in Wisconsin,
10 minutes north of the Illinois boarder.
10 minutes west of Lake Michigan.
45 minutes south of downtown Milwaukee.
We have flat lands in the south and big hills, not quite mountains in the north. We boarder 4 other states, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan. We have the shores of two of the Great Lakes. Lake Michigan on our east side and Lake Superior on our North.
Wisconsin is know as America's Dairyland because it is one of the nation's leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese.
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
19 Sep 19
I could easily tell exactly where I live for I know where exactly my home town is.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
19 Sep 19
I was doing mine to help someone know I don`t live on the coast with hurricanes.
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@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
19 Sep 19
@andriaperry That's good. You're safe.
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@samysotelo18 (7744)
• Mexico
19 Sep 19
Where i live is way too hot in the day and super cold by night haha, we have a lot of summer and our cold months are december-february, this month we are getting rain by night which i think is very nice
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@LindaOHio (178043)
• United States
19 Sep 19
In our area of Ohio we have four seasons. The summers can be hot and humid. Many times we go from summer to winter without any real 70s weather. Fall starts on the 23rd but we are still in the mid to upper 80s. We live a couple of miles from Lake Erie (used to live right on the lake for 7 years). We (knock on wood) are not prone to tornadoes on the east side of Cleveland. We are about an hour or so from downtown Cleveland where you will find the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, etc. We live in a really nice area because the houses are far apart; and we have 1-1/4 acres with a nursery on one side. We live in the snow belt; so we can get some serious snow totals at times.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
20 Sep 19
Seems lake Erie is popular in Mylot.
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@jordancampbell (14)
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19 Sep 19
You seem to have tons of knowledge. It is always a phenomenal feeling to meet an erduite and intellectual person.
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