Propped
We could have taken I-75 all the way into the great mass of Miami and dropped a short distance down I-95 to our hotel, but Robin's telephone told us there'd been a wreck and that all the Miami highways were a mess. We hopped off the highway early instead and dropped down the western edge of the Miami metroplex. And when I say "edge," I mean a very sharp, very sudden edge. In terms of layout, Miami Land is more like a desert city, a kind of waterlogged version of Phoenix Land where civilization is very dense right up until the instant it vanishes. It's a SimCity layout made out of packed squares carved from drained swamps, but the swamps want it all back, so the fight against the sawgrass and alligators is constant. This highway marks the border. Everything to the left is city. Everything to the right is a hundred miles of grass.
I thought it was funny how they'd planted palm trees along the edge, but that they all had to be propped up by 2x4s. I don't know how effective this 2x4 support method would be against a hurricane. I don't know what kind of entropy they're fighting against here.
Propped
We could have taken I-75 all the way into the great mass of Miami and dropped a short distance down I-95 to our hotel, but Robin's telephone told us there'd been a wreck and that all the Miami highways were a mess. We hopped off the highway early instead and dropped down the western edge of the Miami metroplex. And when I say "edge," I mean a very sharp, very sudden edge. In terms of layout, Miami Land is more like a desert city, a kind of waterlogged version of Phoenix Land where civilization is very dense right up until the instant it vanishes. It's a SimCity layout made out of packed squares carved from drained swamps, but the swamps want it all back, so the fight against the sawgrass and alligators is constant. This highway marks the border. Everything to the left is city. Everything to the right is a hundred miles of grass.
I thought it was funny how they'd planted palm trees along the edge, but that they all had to be propped up by 2x4s. I don't know how effective this 2x4 support method would be against a hurricane. I don't know what kind of entropy they're fighting against here.