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92tide

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I had a secretary from Sylvania for about 20 years. She once said she hated being from Sand Mountain. I asked why and she said "Because you don't never get it out of your speech." (She wrote perfect English and had a master's in psychology.) My mother had mostly dropped it, but, occasionally, when I returned home, I'd say "You been hanging out with your sisters again?" :D
my dad was a grammar (and pronunciation) nerd and raised us that way, but 30+ years of living there caught up with him ;)

i don't have much of an accent, but when i get back there, it starts creeping up.
 

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my dad was a grammar (and pronunciation) nerd and raised us that way, but 30+ years of living there caught up with him ;)

i don't have much of an accent, but when i get back there, it starts creeping up.
For Sand Mountain, think "mahring," and you'll get the misspelling... :)
 

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there's some good boating on sand mountain. got several runs on the little river (not the suicide section) and not long before i stopped boating, i got to run south sauty
I've just run the upper two, with S. Sauty and, get this, Town Creek at 2500. That was a rush, or, more accurately, "flush." :D
 

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the south sauty was a hoot. solid class 3-4 creek boating and it's a beautiful creek
It is indeed, as is Town Creek. Town Creek, at Ocoee-volume water was 6, all the way down. That was back when I didn't feel totally alive unless I were an millimeter from death. I was a bad adrenaline junkie...
 

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It is indeed, as is Town Creek. Town Creek, at Ocoee-volume water was 6, all the way down. That was back when I didn't feel totally alive unless I were an millimeter from death. I was a bad adrenaline junkie...
we always used to get a kick out of listening to the gauge goddess' accent when saying "town creek at geraldine."

(the old usgs gauge hotline, my friend still remembers the number)
 

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we always used to get a kick out of listening to the gauge goddess' accent when saying "town creek at geraldine."

(the old usgs gauge hotline, my friend still remembers the number)
I once ran Sock-em-Dog at 2.75 and rising. Dumbest thing I ever did... :)
 

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