Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 14, 2019

After a little more global warming, the time of high tide will matter.

It turns out that even the rocks distort just a little bit under the influence of the Sun and the Moon. Which can matter when it comes to a seismic fault that’s just  on the edge of releasing.

The captain and the kid.

However, Come Monday…

I live approximately 350 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, so I don’t qualify as an ocean dweller. Conversely – as a person from the southeastern US – I don’t qualify as a midwesterner. What I AM is an original Parrothead. When I heard Pencil Thin Mustache on the radio I was intrigued; when I heard Captain And The Kid I was hooked for life. Does that make me a ’tweener?

Has Buffet written anything since the ’70’s that has gotten radio airplay?

♫It’s hard for me to stop my heart♫♫Love never knows when the time is right♫Time and Tide was by Basia

I live on an island on the edge of the ocean. If you don’t think time matters, trying running for the 6:15AM ferry so you can make it to work.

Rising sea levels means rising levels in major rivers, too. There are habitable areas far inland that won’t be habitable in the future.

Um, Frazz, New York is “right on the ocean.” How many New Yorkers have you met to whom “time doesn’t seem to matter”?

new latitude always gives you a new attitude

There’s always the fans ‘a mile high in Denver (where the rock meets timberline).’

If you concede that Lake Michigan is in the Midwest, it does have tides, but they amount in height to about nickel taking a nap. However, we do have a phenomena called a sietch. As a good low pressure system runs down the lake, the local water level comes up under it and the water can be pulled along with it. When this wave coincides with a north wind, it can pull water away from the shore, briefly lowering it, followed by the wave that was created. Marinas in Chicago usually have floating docks, kept in position by sliding on poles driven into the bottom. As the wave comes by, it lifts the dock off the 8 to 10 foot poles, and the wind moves the dock, taking boats with it.

I thought I saw “Time & Tide” open for Jimmy in Key West once.

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Something I’ve learned, and forget way too often, is that to understand what matters, you have to understand what doesn’t. That’s lesson one. Lesson two is figuring out that some things matter sometimes, and sometimes the same things don’t.

So simple. Soooooooooooooo complicated.

Personally, I’ve always wondered what it’d be like to be wasted away like a Cheeseburger in Paradise in Margaritaville …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppYgrdJ0pWk

Time and tide wait for no man.

FWIW, the Great Lakes experience tides, and the ocean tides cause the Hudson River to rise and fall as far north as Albany.