The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

Same for us in the southern tier - Seneca Army Depot. Had an aunt in Elmira that used to say "when the sirens go off, meet me in Ovid because I want it over quick"


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Griffiss Air Force Base near Rome (also close to Utica) was a huuudge target. Lotsa B52s and nukes, also the Eastern Air Defense Sector was (still is) based there. I'd be bummed if it got nuked cuz that's where my retired military pay comes from.

[gravitylover]

I thought EADS was based in Plattsburgh. Were they ever?

[Brownski]

Last time I paddled around Valcour Island 2 F-15s went overhead. Always cool to see. Are they based someplace up there still or more likely transients?

[riser4]

Last time I paddled around Valcour Island 2 F-15s went overhead. Always cool to see. Are they based someplace up there still or more likely transients?

VT ANG flys F-35s out of BTV these days.

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

I thought EADS was based in Plattsburgh. Were they ever?

Can't say if EADS was ever at Plattsburgh but I don't think so. I used to spend a fair amount of time at that place and never saw any sign of EADS being there. I know for sure EADS was at Griffiss on 9/11.

Last time I paddled around Valcour Island 2 F-15s went overhead. Always cool to see. Are they based someplace up there still or more likely transients?

F15s that train over my house in SoVT are from Cape Cod (Otis). As Riser noted, F35s are based at BTV nowadays. We see them a fair bit when racing a sailboat on L. Champlain in the summer.

[buttahflake]

Those are F-15’s making all that noise over Stratton? Good to know, everyone says they’re 35’s from BTV. Is Westover still an active base?

[twomartinis]

I visited a young dad who had moved his kids and wife to T-berg from Westchester Co because "NYC will get the first nuke hit" . Still feel bad that I told him about Sampson. The look on his face.

I had the same look on my face... when I heard they shut down the Rongovian Embassy.

No other reason to live in Tburg that I can think of...


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[ticketchecker]

I had the same look on my face... when I heard they shut down the Rongovian Embassy.

No other reason to live in Tburg that I can think of...


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Saw Donna The Buffalo at the Rongo, iconic establishment


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[MyNameIsAugustWest]

Those are F-15’s making all that noise over Stratton? Good to know, everyone says they’re 35’s from BTV. Is Westover still an active base?

Westover is all cargo. One of the bartenders at Grizzly's is a crew chief on C-5s, the second biggest plane to ever fly.

F-35s train over by Fort Drum (upstate AF). Definitely F-15s from Otis over Stratton.

[Brownski]

Westover is all cargo. One of the bartenders at Grizzly's is a crew chief on C-5s, the second biggest plane to ever fly.

F-35s train over by Fort Drum (upstate AF). Definitely F-15s from Otis over Stratton.

I walked through a C-5 at an air show once. Amazing plane.

[Boosh]

speaking of nuclear threats my parents actually have a bomb shelter in their basement, 3' thick concrete walls and all, kind of cool but also kind of spooky - the house used to be owned by a physicist from the U of R during the cold war, and some of the higher up scientists were working on some classified military technology and were told that they might specifically be targets if things went to shit so a bunch of them built shelters in their homes around the Rochester area.

also had some blackhawk choppers from Fort Drum land on our parade field at Massawepie scout camp back in the day, that was pretty neat and that area of the 'daks is upstate AF.

[twomartinis]

speaking of nuclear threats my parents actually have a bomb shelter in their basement, 3' thick concrete walls and all, kind of cool but also kind of spooky - the house used to be owned by a physicist from the U of R during the cold war, and some of the higher up scientists were working on some classified military technology and were told that they might specifically be targets if things went to shit so a bunch of them built shelters in their homes around the Rochester area.

One of my college professors was an electrical engineer for Kodak in the '60s & '70s. He used to tell stories of how he'd be boarding a plane to DC with a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist! No shit... said he was working on the control systems for spinning mirrors in satellites.

All we heard was handcuffs, satellites & thought he was some kind of some kind spy like james bond! Man, to be young and stupid again...


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[gravitylover]

The room next to the cafeteria in my elementary school was a fallout shelter. In the early 60s it was dug out big enough for 200 kids plus staff and was kept stocked into the 70s when I was there (the school closed in 1976). There were stacks of MRE's, 55 gallon drums of fresh water and a stack of car batteries wired to floodlights. It was kinda spooky.

[fastfred]

I had the same look on my face... when I heard they shut down the Rongovian Embassy.

No other reason to live in Tburg that I can think of...


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Whoa bud

T burg came to mind right away then I realized maybe he Kent tottenberg

Now I just had a bunch of flash backs like big time

[rideit]

I saw the Horseflies once there, such a fun venue. Bunch of freaks in the middle of nowhere.

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

The room next to the cafeteria in my elementary school was a fallout shelter. In the early 60s it was dug out big enough for 200 kids plus staff and was kept stocked into the 70s when I was there (the school closed in 1976). There were stacks of MRE's, 55 gallon drums of fresh water and a stack of car batteries wired to floodlights. It was kinda spooky.

MRE's didn't come out until 1984....

[gravitylover]

So what were all the boxes marked "meal - morning" and "meal - evening"?

[m2711c]

C-Rations… mmmm tasty!

[riser4]

So what were all the boxes marked "meal - morning" and "meal - evening"?

Looks like they were hoping the school lunch program would still be up and running. Nothing marked meal - lunch?

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

C-Rations… mmmm tasty!

People would literally cry if they got the C-rat omelet. Eggs were green, just like the can.

[twomartinis]

The room next to the cafeteria in my elementary school was a fallout shelter. In the early 60s it was dug out big enough for 200 kids plus staff and was kept stocked into the 70s when I was there (the school closed in 1976). There were stacks of MRE's, 55 gallon drums of fresh water and a stack of car batteries wired to floodlights. It was kinda spooky.

I remember seeing stacks of smaller drums of water (still full in late '90s) - lots of the older Buffalo public schools had fallout shelters in the old coal bins & tunnels. I remember seeing crackers or cookies in one of them, abandoned & forgotten...

Not kinda spooky, fkna spooky!


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[riser4]

People would literally cry if they got the C-rat omelet. Eggs were green, just like the can.

Isn't there a kids story about something like that, Sam I am?

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

The Doctor has been canceled...

[gravitylover]

Not kinda spooky, fkna spooky!

We had air raid drills a few times a year right up till I was in Jr High so it was part of our "normal".

[twomartinis]

... now back to the lighter side of upstate with some history



^^
Academy Park, across the street from the state capitol


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