A Short Trip to US |
送交者: jingchen 2022年07月25日06:10:25 於 [新 大 陸] 發送悄悄話 |
A short trip to US This summer, we are taking a short trip to US. We drove across the border from Vancouver. There is no waiting at the border. That’s fantastic. We spent a night in Seattle, with an extended family and close friends. Then we drove east. Washington call itself the evergreen state. But that is true only for the western part. The eastern part is very dry. The coastal mountain gives abundant rain to the west and blocks almost all moisture to the east. For most part of the east, it was a never green state, at least before the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam. We drove east toward the Grand Coulee Dam. It’s the largest hydro dam in US, and was the largest hydro dam in the world until the Three Gorge Dam was built. The Grand Coulee Dam is truly grand. It produces three times more electricity than the Hoover Dam. Somehow, the Hoover Dam is a lot more famous. The Grand Coulee Dam was built around the same time as the Hoover Dam. This reflected the mood of America at that time. This mood was best captured by Woody Guthrie’s song Grand Coulee Dam. Well, the world has seven wonders, the travelers always tell Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know them well She heads up the Canadian Rockies where the rippling waters glide In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of Thirty three Now in Washington and Oregon you hear the factories hum In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray A video of Woody Guthrie’s Grand Coulee Dam
Today, that spirit has largely dissipated. But the hard work that went into the Grand Coulee Dam still benefit today’s population greatly. It still irrigates large amount of farmland, turning wasteland into green fertile agricultural fields. The Columbia valley is the place where most computer servers are based, to take advantage of cheap electricity produced by the Grand Coulee Dam. |
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