I just travelled to Annecy and Charleville-Mezieres France (for business) and your vlogs on using the Metro to get to/from the airport and through France saved my life!!! So I just wanted to say thank you in advance for everyone who uses the tips in your blogs and doesn't say it.... If you are ever in Atlanta, Ga. first drink is on me!
I spent the day in Lyon once, years ago. Sadly, I had an upset stomach, so no tasty food for me, and limited energy to explore. The benefit, sitting around gave me the opportunity to talk to people. I’m just remembering the group of teenaged skateboarder guys competing to speak English to me, and wanting me to tell them who was the best. Hehe! So cute!
Lyon's restaurants closes when us from Sweden were there. But that's ok, there was wine :-) And "Le pecheur was always open, great place. Well worth a visit!
A few trips back, we stayed in the old part of Lyon. It was a lot of fun and the passerelles were very handy. My wife wanted to see the Musée du Tissage, and I really enjoyed it, along with the puppet museum. I'm sure tomorrow's video will have some places we didn't discover. It's a different station, but, have you ever read "Le Robinson de la Gare de Saint-Lazare?" Apollinaire has a wonderful quirkiness that any writer would appreciate.
So fun to see my old college stomping grounds! I lived at the top of the hill in Le Vieux Fort. There was a flippin roman aquaduct outside my window. :D (how to blow a 20 year old American's mind) Gotta get back there at some point. Is today your last day there? Lyon is a place where it's well worth doing a guided walking tour so you get shown all the cool traboules and the cool historical tidbits. Check out the opera house. It burned at one point and they made a modern domed glass top to the old stone base. The dance company trains up there and I had a chance to go and watch them once with my ballet class. The view was fantastic.
Absolutely loved your sisters design of Notre Dame. I have checked off quite a few people for Christmas 😎. We stood as a family in front of Notre Dame three days before it burned. I quite enjoy your videos. Nancy from Canada
Hey jay! I just had a thought! On your trips, you could pick up small "treasures" and then show them to us, and then put them up for auction on E Bay, and I bet you could have a great resell business! Then you could take more trips..... and well you get the idea! Just a thought!
@@JaySwanson Yeah, love the 'voiture bar', especially sipping red wine and watching the landscape. Regional TERs are also nice trains travelling at a slower pace through typical landscapes and smaller cities/villages.
After seeing the photos on instagram, I'm so excited to see videos of Lyon AND for you to get away (and hopefully relax) for a bit! Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend x
Looks like you recovered from your jet lag. We always find that the time problem is easier going from SFO to Europe than on the return. Lyon is beautiful.
I was having a very bad start of the day. Already feel a whole lot better , this just made my day! Also Jay, aren’t you afraid someone may take your camera when you’re taking shots of you walking?
I was in Lyon last November for the first time, loved it, ate WELL (with the help of a food tour in old town) and just loved the view from up top ⛪️ Enjoy!
If you have the time and the weather is good I recommend taking a stroll in the Parc de la Tête d'Or. It’s apparently the largest urban park in France. Thanks for the great work!
Looking good so far, can't wait for tomorrow. When I eventually get to Lyon I'd like to visit the Textile Museum. Hope you find more space invaders today. ☺
I LOOOVE the Notre Dame design your sister did! Also - so excited to see you are in Lyon. We loved it there a few weeks back. Excited to see the Basilica again via your post tomorrow. I hope you aren't planning to walk all the way up there! We took a cab. Cause we are lazy. Update: Just ordered the Notre Dame tshirt!
Ah, first! Dang I was hoping to see some good food, having read about Lyon being a capital of French gastronomic excellence! Well, peut-être demain... I am enchanter with Lyon since seeing you go once already, lovely. I loved seeing the little (settlements) as your train took you through the countryside. I feel like I remember those killer stone twirling steps? This is a delightful mini adventure! Even knowing to ask for ibuprofen at the Pharmacy, a good tip! Merci :)
when i planned for a trip to lyon, i didn't have any recommendations, and had to rely on google, and 1-2 newspaper articles. one place that was recommended, and spot on was L'Ebauche. good food, slow service, but really really good cheese plate.
jay when do you feel it all of a sudden become overcome by the tourist season. i've been in november and in june and my oh my, paris in the rain is superb and summer in paris is gorgeous but everywhere you go you are stepping on toes.
I tried but sadly failed - should have gone for one of the touristy ones in the end I guess but I got too hungry to wait for the walk back to old town 😂😂
Hi Jay! Awesome video! I'm planning on going to Lyon from Paris but I have no idea how and where to go for transportation and their prices. :( Also, when you ride the train, do they look for any ID? thanks!
Lyon looks loverly! I drove through, once. My first upload here, almost ten years ago, is of driving through Lyon (I think. I’d better go vet that! 😂 EDIT: I checked. It is!). Maybe someday I’ll be able to visit longer. Hope the Invader hunting goes well! 👍🏼✌🏼
The price is the same however you buy (or print) your tickets. However, it is very convenient to use the Oui app and have tickets and information and notifications from your phone. BTW, the SNCF uses dynamic pricing (like airlines) so every time you look the price might be different. As with airlines, Mondays and Fridays are usually the most expensive days.
David Guy oh thank you. My issue with ‘M tickets’ is the battery life on my phone while travelling. If there is no comparable price difference then a traditional ticket would be my preferred choice. I envy the trains of France and Italy for the good fares and reliability. :)
@@historianlaura You're right that there is a risk relying on your phone. Fortunately, all the trains I've travelled on in France in recent years have had power outlets, so I've been able to keep my phone charged. You also have the option of buying the ticket online (or on your phone) and printing it out at a kiosk in the station. You just need the reference code you received at purchase time and the last (family) name you used.
phone tickets are same price. just buy your tickets a few months before for the cheapest fares, and also travel the first train in the morning for the cheapest fare. if you want dirt cheap, i.e., $10 tickets, SNCF now has the Ouigo service where you can book ahead to select cities, but the train stations are not centrally located, and you don't get a reserved seat, they assign seats. the difference between french and german trains is that french high speed trains usually come with a seat reservation, german trains normally don't, so on a german train, most people simply buy the ticket, crowd the platform, and when the doors open, it becomes a scrum to find an open seat; a bit annoying, but germans seem to prefer it that way. another difference between french and german trains is german trains are not stylish, and are normally late due to poor maintenance of the rail system.
Seine is up 30 inches from 12 hours ago. I think they do controlled releases of the water, based on the shape of the graph of the water levels. (Has to rise another 4 meters to get to the levels seen 03/06/2016) (no evidence of that on the horizon) (but it's been low for weeks, now this sudden rise) (dotcom). ;)
Christopher I am interested in you because you say such interesting things, just wondering how is it that you are following the water levels of the Seine- so randomly interesting ! :) I have said how nosey I am in comments before, please forgive me... a lifelong trait I'm afraid.
@@yvonnerahmes9618 Haha thank you! (multiple posts, if it'll let me .. this got longer than I expected, haha) *1 of 3* posts from me, here, now. ;) Starting a conversation is hardly nosey - please continue! I was a big fan of Highlander (the series, Adrian Paul) which was shot for half a season in Paris, each year. When MacLeod would board the barge (which was moored at Quai de la Tournelle, in the shadow of Notre Dame**1) the ramp from the quai to the barge would change angles (dramatically, from almost level to very steep upwards to get onto the deck of the barge). Which meant that the Seine had risen (or fallen) quite a bit, as referenced from some other episode of this TV show. V924+54 Notre Dame, Paris As I'm interested in shooting locations for motion pictures, and city geography as well .. and rivers (generally) I started to track the levels of the Seine (just in the scenes filmed for that TV show) and look for further evidence (in other scenes in the same episode) of the river rising and falling. I wondered about the true season of the year in Paris as compared with the depicted season for TV, and how the river levels changed, seasonally. When I started noticing the same effects in Jay's vlog (which are daily visual reports of the locale) I decided to find out how the newspapers seemed to know just what the current levels were, which was (recently!) when I found www.vigicrues.gouv.fr which reports on such metrics, just as we have them here, locally (northwest Connecticut, USA, 41N 73W). ________ **1 also Bassin de la Villette, when the Seine was in flood stage, they'd move the barge there, which puzzled me for a long time
post 2 of 3 IN THE United States, we have very good monitoring of river levels, and they're all reported (via Internet) as the public is paying tax money for this surveillance (and so the gov't finds it necessary to offer the data, free to the public). So I track those as well (but generally only during times near flood stage, or drought). As I used to kayak in our local rivers (mostly, the Farmington River) I became interested (back then) in how the managers used 'impounded' rain waters - the rivers here seemed to me (from camping on the shore!) to rise suddenly, and with no direct relationship to the weather. They were releasing water into the rivers, that had been impounded behind dams I didn't wonder so much as to why, but more as to how, as I had no knowledge of the hold-and-release strategy they use (here, and elsewhere).
post 3 of 3 I think. ;) Note to self: reply to your own, to sequence them correctly, without fuddle-dee-doo reverse collation ;) After a (very large) rain storm, locally, the river will be high for a full week after: they'd impounded enough water behind the dams, to have enough to release for an entire week (that's a lot of excess capacity). Now, water cannot just stay in one place (as it flows downhill each and every moment it is unobstructed from doing so) so I knew that the river level should have fallen, long before that week was out, so I deduced they'd impounded some (water available only during the storm itself) and were 'letting it out, slowly'. And in this way, they keep river levels from rising unreasonably, and (I think; don't know) also, this gives them water to release when conditions are (now) so dry that the river 'could use a little more water than it has' for various reasons (including enhancing sports fishing; they stock the rivers with fish for the anglers' benefit, and other purposes) (including river navigation, by boats, that need the extra water, so that they don't ground and become stranded, or damage the boat).
Post 4 of 3 (hahaha) We have a reservoir for drinking water that was formed by damming a natural river. This had consequences in Connecticut, including industrial water power (a surprising number of factories relied upon water power to produce goods for consumption). When the City of Hartford commissioned the building of the reservoir's dam (in 1912!) it was decided that the (subsequent) denial of river water volume to those factories was unacceptable, so they decided to also (on a completely different watershed) build the 'Compensating' reservoir near Barkhamsted (the other one is Nepaug). The Compensating Reservoir (still called that when I was a kid; don't know about today) had one job: to compensate for water power 'lost' to the Nepaug reservoir; they'd impound water from time to time (during rainstorms) and let it out (to somewhat drain off excess capacity) into the same watershed that used to be fed by the Nepaug (River) (I think). So anybody downstream from the feed point would experience increased water power, during those times, and factories could continue to produce goods for consumption, as the water power drives power shafts in the factories, in the very same way an electric motor would. Sometimes water power is used directly, using mechanical linkage, and other times it's converted to electricity (using turbines turned by the force of flowing river water) and then the electricity is used to power electric motors that do the work in the factory. I FOUND out about the reservoir scheme hatched by the City of Hartford, in a document from 1912 (or thereabouts) that was offered online. Google was my friend (that day). Apparently, the other (obvious) option was the Connecticut River, which was filthy from industrial uses at that time, and nobody wanted to drink from it. ;) Also, the Farmington may've actually been closer to Hartford (than Nepaug) and may've been considered for the same uses. They went with Nepaug.
France is so cloudy all the time but so beautiful
The clouds are part of the beauty =D
I just travelled to Annecy and Charleville-Mezieres France (for business) and your vlogs on using the Metro to get to/from the airport and through France saved my life!!! So I just wanted to say thank you in advance for everyone who uses the tips in your blogs and doesn't say it.... If you are ever in Atlanta, Ga. first drink is on me!
Happy to share some tips!😊
I spent the day in Lyon once, years ago. Sadly, I had an upset stomach, so no tasty food for me, and limited energy to explore. The benefit, sitting around gave me the opportunity to talk to people. I’m just remembering the group of teenaged skateboarder guys competing to speak English to me, and wanting me to tell them who was the best. Hehe! So cute!
I hope you chose wisely ;D They probably still talk about it to this day.
I LOVE the Notre Dame design! Her drawing the church without a spire...foreshadowing? 🤔
Foreshadowing indeed...
Beautiful!! Look forward to the sights tomorrow!
I hope you enjoy the results =D
Charming! It's just what I imagined an old French Town would be! I kept thinking that you would wander into a cool old bookshop, and find a treasure!
@@thomasfrance3545 I hope to go there some day! It is BEAUTIFUL!!
Lyon's restaurants closes when us from Sweden were there. But that's ok, there was wine :-) And "Le pecheur was always open, great place. Well worth a visit!
I'd love to go back!
A few trips back, we stayed in the old part of Lyon. It was a lot of fun and the passerelles were very handy. My wife wanted to see the Musée du Tissage, and I really enjoyed it, along with the puppet museum. I'm sure tomorrow's video will have some places we didn't discover.
It's a different station, but, have you ever read "Le Robinson de la Gare de Saint-Lazare?" Apollinaire has a wonderful quirkiness that any writer would appreciate.
So fun to see my old college stomping grounds! I lived at the top of the hill in Le Vieux Fort. There was a flippin roman aquaduct outside my window. :D (how to blow a 20 year old American's mind) Gotta get back there at some point. Is today your last day there? Lyon is a place where it's well worth doing a guided walking tour so you get shown all the cool traboules and the cool historical tidbits. Check out the opera house. It burned at one point and they made a modern domed glass top to the old stone base. The dance company trains up there and I had a chance to go and watch them once with my ballet class. The view was fantastic.
I hitch-hiked through Lyon (we stopped to eat, nearby) in 1977. ;)
I definitely want to go back and get a more comprehensive experience =D
Absolutely loved your sisters design of Notre Dame. I have checked off quite a few people for Christmas 😎. We stood as a family in front of Notre Dame three days before it burned. I quite enjoy your videos.
Nancy from Canada
That will make a lovely gift for your family, very meaningful considering the timing!! 🇨🇦
One Journal - Jeff & Pam Thank you, I think my family will love it.
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I loved everything in this video...the comments, the shots, the music and of course Lyon. I've only been there once and am wanting to go back. Cheers!
Thanks!
That music bro..........My brain is dead with that music inside lol
Hey jay! I just had a thought! On your trips, you could pick up small "treasures" and then show them to us, and then put them up for auction on E Bay, and I bet you could have a great resell business! Then you could take more trips..... and well you get the idea! Just a thought!
Could be interesting =)
5m09s your best cut yet! So good! :D
Thanks 😊
Travelling by train in France is one of the greatest hidden pleasure you could have while there.
Gotta use that TGV =D
@@JaySwanson Yeah, love the 'voiture bar', especially sipping red wine and watching the landscape. Regional TERs are also nice trains travelling at a slower pace through typical landscapes and smaller cities/villages.
Have fun...Lyon looks lovely...see you tomorrow xx Kerrin and Leia xx
It was lovely indeed! =D
I lived in Lyon for 4 months and I loved it omg so happy you visited !!!
I hope I can make a revisit!
After seeing the photos on instagram, I'm so excited to see videos of Lyon AND for you to get away (and hopefully relax) for a bit! Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend x
If only relaxation had been on the menu, haha. But one of these days ;D It was definitely well worth the visit!
Looks like you recovered from your jet lag. We always find that the time problem is easier going from SFO to Europe than on the return. Lyon is beautiful.
Here's hoping it doesn't totally kick my butt haha
I was having a very bad start of the day. Already feel a whole lot better , this just made my day! Also Jay, aren’t you afraid someone may take your camera when you’re taking shots of you walking?
I'm glad you're feeling better! And nah, life's too short to worry about cameras ;D
I was in Lyon last November for the first time, loved it, ate WELL (with the help of a food tour in old town) and just loved the view from up top ⛪️ Enjoy!
Well worth a visit!
If you have the time and the weather is good I recommend taking a stroll in the Parc de la Tête d'Or. It’s apparently the largest urban park in France. Thanks for the great work!
I definitely want to hit that on a return trip!
Looking good so far, can't wait for tomorrow. When I eventually get to Lyon I'd like to visit the Textile Museum. Hope you find more space invaders today. ☺
Thanks! =D I found a solid number in the end 👾👾👾
I LOOOVE the Notre Dame design your sister did! Also - so excited to see you are in Lyon. We loved it there a few weeks back. Excited to see the Basilica again via your post tomorrow. I hope you aren't planning to walk all the way up there! We took a cab. Cause we are lazy. Update: Just ordered the Notre Dame tshirt!
I hope you love it!😊5
I also saw from the later vlog you did not read my comment in time to spare yourself the walk up to the basilica in Lyon.😩
Ah, first! Dang I was hoping to see some good food, having read about Lyon being a capital of French gastronomic excellence! Well, peut-être demain... I am enchanter with Lyon since seeing you go once already, lovely. I loved seeing the little (settlements) as your train took you through the countryside. I feel like I remember those killer stone twirling steps? This is a delightful mini adventure! Even knowing to ask for ibuprofen at the Pharmacy, a good tip! Merci :)
I'd need a lot more time to get into the food properly I feel like - and maybe some outside help haha
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Paris or Lyon ! great Vlogs in both cities Jay.
And as usual amazing edits. The sequence in the stairs with your clones was superb.
Thanks!😊
when i planned for a trip to lyon, i didn't have any recommendations, and had to rely on google, and 1-2 newspaper articles. one place that was recommended, and spot on was L'Ebauche. good food, slow service, but really really good cheese plate.
Sounds tasty
Coffee with jay! Only I can have mine in a mug
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Looks lovely jay..have a nice time
Thanks Vance!
jay when do you feel it all of a sudden become overcome by the tourist season. i've been in november and in june and my oh my, paris in the rain is superb and summer in paris is gorgeous but everywhere you go you are stepping on toes.
Thumbs up for Paul Bocuse , qui nous a quittés.
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Love the Lyon montages!!
Had a great time in Lyon! =D
Me second! Lol! Don’t know why I’m still up but hey, I was looking forward to this anyway.
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Love this video!
Im going to have to visit Lyon next time i come. I totally enjoy your videos. :)
Thanks! I had a great time visiting =D
Quite the nerd-heavy vlog today 👾😂 Lyon looks like a sweet city.
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Love traveling by train. Thanks for sharing. Could you give us a tour of the Airbnb?
Surely
Exploring is fun! 👾👾👾👾 Naps are fun! Trains are fun! Fun! I think I need a nap.
Naps for everyone! =D
I hope you went in some "bouchon" (name of restaurants in Lyon) because Lyon is the gastronomic capital of France !
I tried but sadly failed - should have gone for one of the touristy ones in the end I guess but I got too hungry to wait for the walk back to old town 😂😂
That’s my city 💕💕 so many good memories living in Lyon !!
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Every time you get food, I want to fly over to France.
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Hope you loved visiting my city. I think you should come back because you cannot see all the beautiful things it has to offer in less than two weeks.
i know that this is an old video but what is the space invaders app called
Flashinvaders - all one word I believe
Hi Jay! Awesome video! I'm planning on going to Lyon from Paris but I have no idea how and where to go for transportation and their prices. :( Also, when you ride the train, do they look for any ID? thanks!
Lyon looks loverly! I drove through, once. My first upload here, almost ten years ago, is of driving through Lyon (I think. I’d better go vet that! 😂 EDIT: I checked. It is!). Maybe someday I’ll be able to visit longer. Hope the Invader hunting goes well! 👍🏼✌🏼
It'd definitely be worth a stopover!
You brighten my morning!! Love watching how excited you are at hunting new space invaders. Are space invaders only in France? Have a Great Day!!!
Nope! They're all over the world space-invaders.com
Looks like almost like Paris lite
That's one way to think of it
The phone tickets are they marginally cheaper than paper tix. Not that french trains are expensive compared to the UK.
The price is the same however you buy (or print) your tickets. However, it is very convenient to use the Oui app and have tickets and information and notifications from your phone. BTW, the SNCF uses dynamic pricing (like airlines) so every time you look the price might be different. As with airlines, Mondays and Fridays are usually the most expensive days.
David Guy oh thank you. My issue with ‘M tickets’ is the battery life on my phone while travelling. If there is no comparable price difference then a traditional ticket would be my preferred choice. I envy the trains of France and Italy for the good fares and reliability. :)
@@historianlaura You're right that there is a risk relying on your phone. Fortunately, all the trains I've travelled on in France in recent years have had power outlets, so I've been able to keep my phone charged. You also have the option of buying the ticket online (or on your phone) and printing it out at a kiosk in the station. You just need the reference code you received at purchase time and the last (family) name you used.
David Guy just like Eurostar - All this talk of travel has made me have itchy feet my souls is calling for mainland Europe
phone tickets are same price. just buy your tickets a few months before for the cheapest fares, and also travel the first train in the morning for the cheapest fare. if you want dirt cheap, i.e., $10 tickets, SNCF now has the Ouigo service where you can book ahead to select cities, but the train stations are not centrally located, and you don't get a reserved seat, they assign seats. the difference between french and german trains is that french high speed trains usually come with a seat reservation, german trains normally don't, so on a german train, most people simply buy the ticket, crowd the platform, and when the doors open, it becomes a scrum to find an open seat; a bit annoying, but germans seem to prefer it that way. another difference between french and german trains is german trains are not stylish, and are normally late due to poor maintenance of the rail system.
jay, it says you took TGV to lyon, Isn't OUIGO cheaper. Is there a reason, have you taken OUIGO before and did you enjoy.
Hey Jay, love your videos!! Are you able to share the best train to catch to Lyon from Paris??
I'd check with SNCF or Omio!
Go to Reynon!
You should have gone to Marseille, it's great
I have a few videos in Marseille ⛵
Fun edits
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Seine is up 30 inches from 12 hours ago.
I think they do controlled releases of the water, based on the shape of the graph of the water levels. (Has to rise another 4 meters to get to the levels seen 03/06/2016) (no evidence of that on the horizon) (but it's been low for weeks, now this sudden rise) (dotcom). ;)
Christopher I am interested in you because you say such interesting things, just wondering how is it that you are following the water levels of the Seine- so randomly interesting ! :) I have said how nosey I am in comments before, please forgive me... a lifelong trait I'm afraid.
@@yvonnerahmes9618 Haha thank you!
(multiple posts, if it'll let me .. this got longer than I expected, haha)
*1 of 3* posts from me, here, now. ;)
Starting a conversation is hardly nosey - please continue!
I was a big fan of Highlander (the series, Adrian Paul) which was shot for half a season in Paris, each year.
When MacLeod would board the barge (which was moored at Quai de la Tournelle, in the shadow of Notre Dame**1) the ramp from the quai to the barge would change angles (dramatically, from almost level to very steep upwards to get onto the deck of the barge).
Which meant that the Seine had risen (or fallen) quite a bit, as referenced from some other episode of this TV show.
V924+54 Notre Dame, Paris
As I'm interested in shooting locations for motion pictures, and city geography as well .. and rivers (generally) I started to track the levels of the Seine (just in the scenes filmed for that TV show) and look for further evidence (in other scenes in the same episode) of the river rising and falling.
I wondered about the true season of the year in Paris as compared with the depicted season for TV, and how the river levels changed, seasonally.
When I started noticing the same effects in Jay's vlog (which are daily visual reports of the locale) I decided to find out how the newspapers seemed to know just what the current levels were, which was (recently!) when I found www.vigicrues.gouv.fr which reports on such metrics, just as we have them here, locally (northwest Connecticut, USA, 41N 73W).
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**1 also Bassin de la Villette, when the Seine was in flood stage, they'd move the barge there, which puzzled me for a long time
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IN THE United States, we have very good monitoring of river levels, and they're all reported (via Internet) as the public is paying tax money for this surveillance (and so the gov't finds it necessary to offer the data, free to the public). So I track those as well (but generally only during times near flood stage, or drought).
As I used to kayak in our local rivers (mostly, the Farmington River) I became interested (back then) in how the managers used 'impounded' rain waters - the rivers here seemed to me (from camping on the shore!) to rise suddenly, and with no direct relationship to the weather.
They were releasing water into the rivers, that had been impounded behind dams I didn't wonder so much as to why, but more as to how, as I had no knowledge of the hold-and-release strategy they use (here, and elsewhere).
post 3 of 3 I think. ;)
Note to self: reply to your own, to sequence them correctly, without fuddle-dee-doo reverse collation ;)
After a (very large) rain storm, locally, the river will be high for a full week after: they'd impounded enough water behind the dams, to have enough to release for an entire week (that's a lot of excess capacity).
Now, water cannot just stay in one place (as it flows downhill each and every moment it is unobstructed from doing so) so I knew that the river level should have fallen, long before that week was out, so I deduced they'd impounded some (water available only during the storm itself) and were 'letting it out, slowly'.
And in this way, they keep river levels from rising unreasonably, and (I think; don't know) also, this gives them water to release when conditions are (now) so dry that the river 'could use a little more water than it has' for various reasons (including enhancing sports fishing; they stock the rivers with fish for the anglers' benefit, and other purposes) (including river navigation, by boats, that need the extra water, so that they don't ground and become stranded, or damage the boat).
Post 4 of 3 (hahaha)
We have a reservoir for drinking water that was formed by damming a natural river.
This had consequences in Connecticut, including industrial water power (a surprising number of factories relied upon water power to produce goods for consumption).
When the City of Hartford commissioned the building of the reservoir's dam (in 1912!) it was decided that the (subsequent) denial of river water volume to those factories was unacceptable, so they decided to also (on a completely different watershed) build the 'Compensating' reservoir near Barkhamsted (the other one is Nepaug).
The Compensating Reservoir (still called that when I was a kid; don't know about today) had one job: to compensate for water power 'lost' to the Nepaug reservoir; they'd impound water from time to time (during rainstorms) and let it out (to somewhat drain off excess capacity) into the same watershed that used to be fed by the Nepaug (River) (I think).
So anybody downstream from the feed point would experience increased water power, during those times, and factories could continue to produce goods for consumption, as the water power drives power shafts in the factories, in the very same way an electric motor would.
Sometimes water power is used directly, using mechanical linkage, and other times it's converted to electricity (using turbines turned by the force of flowing river water) and then the electricity is used to power electric motors that do the work in the factory.
I FOUND out about the reservoir scheme hatched by the City of Hartford, in a document from 1912 (or thereabouts) that was offered online. Google was my friend (that day).
Apparently, the other (obvious) option was the Connecticut River, which was filthy from industrial uses at that time, and nobody wanted to drink from it. ;)
Also, the Farmington may've actually been closer to Hartford (than Nepaug) and may've been considered for the same uses. They went with Nepaug.
Yo I live here if you want to grab a coffee let me know!
Thanks for the invite! ☕ Lyon was great!
omg that intro! :)
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Jay, I just don’t see people walking like zombies with their head plunged into their phone screens like in here. Am I wrong?
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12:46 for 13:00 (another character)
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*spoiler:*
The Sleepy Bear ;)
Are there space invaders in Canada?
www.space-invaders.com/home/
North America: Cancun, Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles and New York.
Christopher thanks. So the answer is no. Thats why I never heard of it (other than these videos)
Merci!