Ike from space.

[theweaselking]

This is a storm the size of a medium-sized state, like Texas.

Comments

[jerril]

I believe Texas is technically a large state. Unless you meant "Nation state".

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Texas is barely the size of Alberta.

Texas is medium-sized.

[triskelmoon.livejournal.com]

Is this one of those, "Everything's bigger in Canada" cracks? *snicker*

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

Those 8 people in Alberta are awfully lonely though, with all that distance between them.

[triskelmoon.livejournal.com]

Pokes head in for obligatory "I just friended you comment": Umm, pointed here by your torrain via the excolo hive mind. Stayed for the snark.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Texas is a large state. It would be a medium-sized province.

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

That would be generous, then...

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

You may just be right. (http://community.livejournal.com/sf_drama/1407128.html)

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

O_O ... Good Gods Almighty.

[zdallin.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha! A picture says a thousand words :D

[shemale.livejournal.com]

i lol'd hard

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's large, *for a state*.

It's still medium-sized.

[jirel.livejournal.com]

So, the size of most European countries?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Europe is full of tiny countries.

But yes.

[dscotton.livejournal.com]

Actually I think Texas is bigger than any country in Europe except Russia.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Ukraine and France are within a few percent. Turkey is significantly bigger. Spain is smaller but close, as is Sweden.

[thette.livejournal.com]

No...? 450 000 square kilometers compared to the 700 000 square kilometers of Texas.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

2/3.

It's larger than any other US State except Alaska. It's more than three times the average size of the rest of the States.

I call that "close".

[thette.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

[dscotton.livejournal.com]

Err, so Turkey (784k square km) is "significantly bigger" than Texas (696k square km) but Ukraine (604k square km) is "within a few percent"? Interesting...

I wasn't including Turkey as part of Europe, but if you do there are two European countries bigger than Texas.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You counted *Russia*.

Last I checked, that's northern Asia. Turkey's a prospective EU member, and it's a lot closer.

(And, France is within 3%. And it was the original item from that sentence before I saw the size of the Ukraine)

[dscotton.livejournal.com]

I know Turkey's a prospective EU member, but I just went by the Europe map that Wikipedia shows on a lot of the European countries' pages. On that map, western Russia is part of Europe (which corresponds with what I thought was the conventional wisdom), but Turkey isn't.

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

So Asia starts at the Norwegian border by Murmansk? Try again. (And should I even mention East PrussiaKaliningrad?)

40% of the land area of Europe is in Russia. Roughly 3,960,000 km² or 5.6 times Texas.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, you sound like a Texan.