Nature, Just Simmer Down Now! Multi-Cache
Nature, Just Simmer Down Now!
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The posted coordinates take you an unusual "sculpture" located in front of the post office - a set of I-beams modified by the power of nature.
This multi-staged geocache has two stages. The first stage is all virtual and is located here very near the posted coordinates. The second stage is physical and contains a log sheet, and that stage is a short distance away from the post office.
This geocache continues the legacy of a traditional geocache of the same name that was located here - click here to see it - Nature, Just Simmer Down Now! (GCNNPA).
I placed that geocache over 12 years ago, before this area was built up as you see it now. I placed it before this post office was here.
That geocache was important to me, for a couple of reasons. One of the reasons is that I placed that original geocache back when the I-beams were considered as just "damage", and at that time, I described them as a "natural sculpture". Then some time later, the I-beams were actually repurposed as a sculpture.
At one point, I wanted to convert that original geocache from a traditional to a multi, to make it more stable, but the local reviewer wouldn't let me do that. So now I am effectively "replacing" the original geocache with this multi.
Included below in blue font is the write up from my original geocache.
It happened on 28 March 2000. That afternoon, I had earlier held a short practice session with my younger soccer team on a levee located only a few hundred feet from where the tornado tore through just over an hour later. The levee practices were where we "ran the hill" and did special exercises. It was a short practice, because my older soccer team had a game later that afternoon, several miles away. We started that game, but after just a few minutes, the game was canceled due to the menacing weather, lightning, and weather sirens starting to wail. Everybody go home!
As we drove home, my boys and I experienced the surreal insecurity brought on by escalating weather, black sky, and the scream of weather sirens the entire drive home.
After arriving home, my younger son ran into the house. My older son and I stood out in the front yard and took it all in. The whipping wind straining the branches, the insane-looking clouds that seemed as if they were going to descend all the way down through the trees any minute, the spooky sounds of sirens going off all over the place, from all directions, and we could hear the far-away ones behind the nearby ones.
We then went inside and clicked the TV on. We watched the live reports of the monster tornado that was ripping through our area at that exact moment, only a couple of miles north of our house. It was hard to believe that this was happening. Here.
Soon thereafter, the TV went black. Power was gone. Power was gone for a while.
After it was all over, the force of the storm and the damage it caused was astonishing. Shards of glass from the windows of the Bank One tower were imbedded in the concrete of neighboring buildings. For days, glass fell to the street below.
At our next soccer practice, I learned that several of my team members, after leaving that canceled game, those that lived north of my neighborhood in the midst of the tornado, had to drive over sections of roofs that were in the street, and had to hop curbs, and drive through yards to get around fallen trees, to get home. The house of one of my team members ended up with a tree in the living room.
Eventually, the damage was resolved. Property was either repaired or otherwise dealt with. Some buildings, such as the CashAmerica International building, ended up with a needed facelift. For years, the Bank One tower stood as a reminder of the storm, and it became our hillbilly skyscraper for awhile, while those in the decision circle argued about what to do. It was a plywood tower. Finally, repairs were undertaken, and it is now again a fine, upstanding tower of power.
The location of this cache is a reminder of that day and that storm, and the potential forces and power that exist in the world we dwell in. I hope this reminder stays there forever.
It is a sculpture, the artists being both man and nature. Such a sculpture is very rare. I hope the land owners and the city realize that it is a priceless work of "art", and will never have it removed.
Now for the geocache part, and how to find it...
This is a geocache in the same style as many others that are in a series of geocaches scattered across the U.S. with the name "P.O. Box...". I have at one of my own - click here to see it - P.O. Box - Dayton (GC39BAA).
If you have ever done one, then you know that this is a simple puzzle once you learn how to apply this set of three numbers for the cache - Bay:Column:Row.
Bay:
When you enter the Post Office you will find a bunch of post office boxes. The post office boxes are grouped in Bays, each about 5 feet tall thereabouts with varying widths. The number of the Bay is determined by counting Bays from left to right. There are 9 Bays here, but for this puzzle cache, you are concerned only with the first few to the left.
Column:
Starting at the upper left corner of the Bay, and counting from left to right and along the top (within the Bay), the leftmost box is Column 1. The next box from the left is Column 2. The numbering continues as such to the right of the Bay.
Row:
Starting at the upper left corner of the Bay and counting from top to bottom (within the Bay), the top Row is 1 and the next Row down is 2. This numbering scheme continues as such down to the bottom of the Bay.
Note that sometimes the box size changes, but it will not affect the count and outcome.
At the post office, find the P.O. boxes designated below as (Bay:Column:Row). There are two P.O. Boxes to find, and both have six-digit numbers. Apply the six-digit numbers from the P.O. boxes as indicated to determine the final geocache coordinates. Note that you have to add 6 to the latitude, as indicated.
(B3:C5:R1) = ABCDEF
(B1:C4:R1) = RSTUVW
The final cache is located at the coordinates below:
N32° 4U.(DEF + 6)
W097° 2W.UVW
The final is an easy micro.
Have fun.
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