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When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
| | | Re: Moving to Virginia... any tips? < Reply # 12 on 1/8/2024 2:16 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Jeremys556 Hi all, In about 4 months I'm going to be moving to Virginia (near the Staunton area most likely). I am from southern California so it is quite the move for me haha. I wanted to know if anyone knows of any dangers specific to Virginia. Excited to move here though! Tired of California, most of it is dead plants (where I live anyway), no actual nature.
| Some suggestions: 1. As you make new local friends, etc. try not to talk about California a lot, instead, talk to them about your new local community. There is a stereotype about Californians that you do not want to live-up to... Switch to a VA drivers license & license plate ASAP! 2. Definitely get a feel for the local culture & attitude -- if you're caught trespassing somewhere, you DON'T want to be thought of as "Some guy from California, here to cause crime," ideally the thought is "He's a new resident, very curious about things, and maybe didn't know he was trespassing. 3. A lot of the history is more along the lines of the Civil War, original 13 Colonies, etc. "Old" in California often meant early to mid 1900s, whereas in the VA/MD/WV area, "old" can often mean 1700s. 4. During the Cold War, all Washington DC area federal government agency HQs had to establish emergency relocation sites for 'continuity of operations' in-case of a nuclear attack on DC. Many of these secret ERS locations were established in rural parts of VA/PA/MD/WV/NC, because they were in-range of helicopters or ground transport. Many ERSs were somewhat 'disguised in plain-site,' meaning that in addition to a 'secret bunker,' the site had an overt, daily mission. Plenty were small colleges, because they had housing, food production, etc. I certainly am not going to steer you towards anything that may still have a secret mission, but in your travels in the area, if you see something that just doesn't make-sense, maybe it's an ERS... Often, the local old-timers know that something strange was going-on, because when the building was constructed, the basement was really deep, they used lots of extra cement & rebar, the access road gets priority for snow-plowing, they occasionally saw/heard gov't helicopters landing near the place, etc. For example, look at: https://www.flickr...72157617578295401/ Also, while it's not real close, this once-massive, once important site is now apparently a county park, with ruins of some of the old Navy structures: https://www.flickr...72157714543335256/ /-/ooligan
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