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The eastern U.S. was so cloudless last week due to a massive high pressure system that you could actually see fall colors from space. (lemmy.world)

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It’s like the Midwest where the land is flat and everything was planned out on a map ahead of time, is laid out in a grid.

However anywhere with mountains, meandering rivers, earlier settlement before map planning, is laid out by settlement patterns strongly influenced by natural features