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Real Gone | Make It Rain Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

seldom|seen: Putting one of my many maintenance challenging series to bed. This series contains some of my earliest puzzle creations, foreshadowing the plethora of S|S creations to follow.

As the years have progressed and my time and zeal for the sport has wained, so has the experience of the active geocache community, particularly when you work so hard to solve these puzzle and are then meet with unfulfilling and often unmaintained physical finals.

As tough as it is to let these go when I reflect on time and energy invested for the benefit of those who appreciated the same, I do have to accept that the experience created out of necessity to place a physical final (90% of my caches would be virtuals, if they were allowed to be) has soiled the experience once associated with finding log sheets to sign.

The S|S flag has been at half mast for a good half decade and it's time to take it down out of respect for the community. Thanks for finding these and your wonderful logs. This is the beginning of a long painful archiving process for hundreds of caches and I appreciate your patience and I put many to bad and ferret out those that I can continue to monitor and maintain.

If anybody is eager to adopt a series, feel free to PM me.

-seldom|seen

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Hidden : 12/18/2006
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The night's too quiet
Stretched out alone
I need the whip of thunder
and the wind's dark moan

I'm not Able, I'm just Cain
Open up the heavens
Make it rain!

I'm close to heaven
Crushed at the gate
They sharpen their knives
on my mistakes

What she done, you can't give it a name
You gotta make it rain
Make it rain, yeah!



Another Real Gone cache. Hope you're having some fun with these, I know I am. This one is a bit more on the serious side. If you follow the local news you'll know just how much water rights and water rate increases have been a hot button issue in Appleton and neighboring community politics this year. The local fight for rights and fair prices shows just how dominant water rights issues are becoming. Globally, the picture is even more serious and solving this cache should leave you with a little bit more knowledge about global water issues.

ABOVE COORDINATES ARE NOT ACTUAL COORDINATES

You'll need to answer the following questions to determine the final coordinates which are

N44°AB.CDE W088°FG.HIJ

CHECK YOUR SOLUTION.


The answers can be found in the March 2003 New Internationalist 354 Newsletter.

All answers based on figures for 2000.

1. Percent of water use in Afghanistan catagorized as Domestic? A
2. Percent of World water use catagorized as Agricultural? BC
3. Percent of water use in Japan catagorized as Agricultural? DE
4. Number of people worldwide lacking proper sanitary water provisions in billions? F.G
5. Percent by which Diarrhea can be reduced by washing hands with soap. HI
6. Percent of Liquid Freshwater stored in underground aquifers? 9J
I hope you learned something trying to solve this one. Remember to turn the faucet off in the middle of brushing your teeth and taking a shower. Every gallon of water we conserve now will mean that many more for our children's children.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

401X

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)