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Published: 2019-07-17 03:19:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 625; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 0
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It seems simple enough, doesn't it? Big sign; flashing light; barricade; twenty-foot-wide, fifteen-foot deep trench. There are signs in either direction warning that the road is closed in one thousand feet. The work crew started ripping up the old culvert three weeks ago. Still, during the time that we spent viewing and photographing the project, three vehicles came down the road and had to turn around and go back the way they came.
Commuters use the road heavily as a shortcut between one small city and another large town. Although it's a small-town, local road and edges the front yards of more than twenty families with small children, it handles the traffic of a major thoroughfare. People seem to take the closure as a personal affront and inconvenience to them. The danger their haste and carelessness poses to residents' kids is meaningless to them. The posted 25 MPH speed limit is ignored.
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Here in AZ the problem is crossing flooded roads during the Monsoons. At every dip in a road, there's a sign DO NOT ENTER WHEN FLOODED. Every year people do it anyway. & some drown.
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My brother and I used to love watching the old COPS series and now LIVE PD takes its place. Every time it rains, you hear the dispatcher announcing, "We got a car caught in the warsh!" (that Southwest dialect you're probably getting used to). It happens on the east coast, too.
We had a minor flood in the 1980s. One of the nuke plant's security supervisors, a man whose prominent family has lived in the New London, Connecticut area since the 17th Century, managed to get a very large truck mostly submerged in a flooded road. He cracked the head and broke a connecting rod. In Connecticut, it's jail time to attempt to sell a car that's been in a flood (you just look inside a door), so he couldn't even fix it up and sell it.
Then he got busted for possession of pot on the nuke site. What a genius.
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so the family tree has a broken branch now...
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I guess so. I lost track of the guy after he left the nuke and I can't find him on the web. I did find somebody with the same name out in Nevada, but no idea if it's the same loser.
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Okay, I'm just going to pick a noun out of the hat here, lemme see now...Ah! Today's word is 'Foible's!
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Idiots in OPVs (Over-Priced Vehicles) who refuse to believe the laws of man and physics apply to them. Foibles it is!
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I wish I had an OPV, a really cheap one. That would be a step up!
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I bought my RAV4 new back when I was working full time. It will be four years old this year. The technology is sometimes a little hinky, but it always starts and it's never gotten stuck in the snow. With 35K on the odometer the tires are getting a little thin, though. I'd better start saving up for a new set.
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Mine is 2004 or thereabouts. Beats walking.
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And you seldom need to worry about snow!
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There is a scene in A To Z In The Chocolate Alphabet where the devil's personal doctor gives him a cold remedy, and when he sneezes it starts to snow. Now he has to redeem millions of false promises, a major disaster. The doctor has to stand up to his chin in monkey vomit, and demons race around in motorboats and cause waves.
Snow is unlikely here.
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