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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Whoever made this underestimates the shore of a Great Lake, I see. Ohio and Michigan already have beaches.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look man, I'll get sick if i drink from Lake Erie same as if i drank from the ocean. Works for me

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

In some parts of Michigan you don't even have to drink out of the lake. You can just drink out of your sink and get sick

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No salt and no sharks, and all the beachy goodness.

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who grew up on the Great Lakes who now lives on the Pacific, they are not comparable.

[–] itsprobablyfine@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

In MI I could go swimming in the lakes. In OR its less ideal

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

You can't get surfer hair without saltwater.

[–] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You can even turn into a human ice cube when you go in the water! (Love the great lakes)

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

After this map, Ohio no longer has a Great Lake Beach.
They’ll just be left with a salty proboscis through Mary’s West Virginia.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Michigan is stealing our BEACHES??!

TO WAR, I SAY! ⚔️

[–] pokemaster787@ani.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Michigan already stole the northern half of your state and you didn't go to war, what's a little more?

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

(I mean, let's be real. They can have Toledo.)

But we're keeping Sandusky.

[–] itsprobablyfine@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah for MI this is an absolute win. Look at all that gained lakefront

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minnesota and Wisconsin too. And with the Eerie canal, they all have access to the ocean

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If we're just gonna start counting whether or not our waterways have access to the ocean, then pretty much every Midwestern state counts by way of the Mississippi's drainage basin. 32 states have tributary rivers that find their way to the Mississippi, and then to the Gulf.

Incidentally, I love the detail in this map where the state of Mississippi no longer touches the Mississippi River, and the city of New Orleans is apparently divided across the states of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The image says nothing about beaches, it's just the title of the post.

[–] legion02@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And no shot Chicago is moving into Wisconsin without a civil war first.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, Chicago here. Fuck the ocean, give me back my lakeshore.

Edit: actually, if I'm still physically in Chicago, I guess it doesn't matter overly much whether it's Chicago, IL or Chicago, WI, though I think Illinois needs us more, from a political perspective.

[–] Blackout@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah we don't need it, keep your east coast beaches.