• 4am@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      It’s not like you could go online. TV and newspapers had your local, but unless there was someone you could call, usually you had to chance it. Best you usually could do was pickup a newspaper from the store when you got there.

      • flicker@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        We did have the Old Farmer’s Almanac, but it doesn’t really narrow it down much.

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      3 months ago

      Earlier in the story arc they got to their campsite by canoe. In the 80s it’s totally reasonable that they didn’t know when the rain was going to break.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      ‘87! Cellphones with internet weren’t common until the early 00s, and boomers adopted them LATE! Your best bet until ~2004 was a Sidekick…