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The closest eruption was the snag point I was thinking. We’re relatively near a fault line, but I don’t know of any volcanoes for a very, very long distance.

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JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Of you’re talking new Madrid fault line in southern Illinois then you’re kinda close but a couple hundred-ish miles away even if you’re in Evansville Indiana area. I think the closest volcano is in Washington state to us.

Please don’t make a volcano in southern Indiana, my family in southern Illinois probably won’t enjoy being between a volcano and a major tectonic fault both lol

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You don’t even want to know how people pronounce Terre Haute where I live.
  
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  - JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Tear-ra hoe-te
    
    Think I did that right but not sure on how to spell out how we say haute in a southern Illinois accent.
    
    If you’re a Hoosier from south of Indianapolis then we likely speak very similarly
    
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    FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I hear “Terr Hoot” all the time. Why “hoot?” I have no idea.
    
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- Zeppo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oddly it’s the same in New Mexico, where people should know better. There’s a town between Santa Fe and Albuquerque called New MAD-rid.
  
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  - JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Even worse since some level of Spanish should be understood by most everyone in the southwest lol
    
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    Zeppo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It was a mining town, so I thought that probably it was named/renamed by non-Hispanic Europeans. But why would they call it Madrid? So I have no idea.
    
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