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So given the POLAR VOTEX/s, it seems almost ironic to pray for storms to support snow for skiing to snow camping. But ironically enough, the storms are hitting the areas where a lot of those people that believe in global warming live.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-cold-wave-lingers-lose-bite-weekend-095656237.html
Us heathen/sinners pray for record snow! Even the global warmists take showers, use toilets, & drink water, from the Sierra snow pack!
Cruising down I5 in non-jammed traffic can be entertaining, often the second to the right lane is the most open, and easiest for real speeding.
If anybody has ever been stuck behind a fully loaded tractor trailer trying to PASS another FULLY loaded tractor trailer should be able to understand the concept of keeping right EXCEPT to pass. Just because one in the passing is going faster than an overtaking vehicle is a GROSS misunderstanding.
In some situations, these were left lane campers being out left-lane camped. Test results indicate that even they would quickly pass on the right, in almost every instance.
I’ve even seen HP leo’s pass LLC’s on the right rather than code them to move right or pull them over.
So for example, you could almost never enforce that in the LA metropolitan freeway system. But then LA, CA has the best speeding, chase, bumper car, crash, flee & arrest videos !🤪
I’m not sure what that does to the overall Sierra snow pack, since last report of @ 98%.
We get something like this plowing our streets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grader
Hope you are both getting better & feeling so. Going to the office when no one is there is a good thing in many ways.
I just saw an interesting way to clear streets - large ladder fire truck fully chained with a sanding truck behind it. My street is now slushy with no real issues.
Another thing - cars completely covered other than a 1x1 viewing hole for the windshield. Insanely stupid.
The asset is normally sitting around, so for a few more maintenance $$’s, it’s probably a good secondary application, benefiting the taxpayers.
This situation described is an all around safety hazard for the actual driver and those behind and around the arrogant driver. It probably masks the scofflaw’s tool box of bad habits.
Should be well below freezing tonight, tomorrow morning might be fun, but I think most of the real arterials are clear now. After the 2008 snow boondoggle, there was pressure to finally get equipment.
Speaking of blizzards, Highway 80, one of 2 major highways into the Tahoe, CA/NV area, has been closed due to heavy snowfall & blizzard warnings.
I plan on braving the roads in the morning, not too worried, I will take it easy.
As for the Blizzard.... shocking! I would never expect such a thing from a frozen treat, but it could certainly happen. Food poisoning is just terrible. Makes for one helluva 24 hours! Glad to hear you're on the mend.
I am doing better today, still a bit tired but came to work. Roads had a few icy spots but were generally fine. I notice the city did a better job clearing the arterials than the state did with their off-ramps - where an offramp meets my route was a weird border of bare to snow.
The number of freeze/thaw/freeze cycles we've had over the last month has really done a number on some areas of highways where maintenance was deferred last year. What were shallow craters in the asphalt are now bomber practice areas, a real mess.
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I fear what the roads will be like here in a month, as we could be in for a couple weeks of freeze/thaw too, and what are likely lowest bidder road surfaces seldom age well. Makes a truck or SUV look appealing, 2 years ago my car was damaged by a crater pothole, and telling the city about it was almost like dealing with a brick wall.
http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi?roadnumber=50&submit=Search
I only get concerned when they do NOT let chained snow removal equipment run.
It's almost a social faux-pas as well in Europe, people usually refrain just to not look dumb. Here, looking dumb can almost be like a contest.
The part of the public that wouldn't be understanding is the LEO's that would issue an expensive citation, not for VC 21654 (Slower Traffic Keep Right), but for the damn carpool violation which is big bucks in CA.
Funny thing, I told a coworker who lives near that location about my woes. He just shook his head, and said he knows better. Maybe the nearly empty parking lot should have been a clue.
On their current web page about the dangers of speeding, they claim 26% of all fatalities in 2016 were caused by speeding.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/speeding
This is inherently and explicitly false. Around 3% of all collisions and fatalities can be remotely attributed to speed.
If you look at their blue box of info with 3 button tabs, the first one states that 49% of their 26% figure comes from people that are so dumb they weren’t wearing their seat belts.
The third tab shows that another 37% of that 26% figure was from drunks.
How biased do you need to be to include drunks and non-seat-belt wearers in your stat to blame “speeders?”
So that leaves you with only 14% of the original 26% figure. This is all basic reasonable logic, and doesn’t require advanced math.
14% of 26% is 3.6%. That coincides with the buried studies from the NHTSA/Dept. of Transportation on the Causal factors of Collisions and Fatalities.
Question your sources…. follow the money for the motive. Insurance companies are run by evil humans, and they are running the government. Really no other way to call it.
It’s also becoming clearer that DWI/DUI, etc., are not confined to the stereotypical, Friday, Saturday NIGHT, popping just one, to commode hugging drunk episodes. Some non specific statistics indicate it’s a 24/7 phenomenon. In fact, I have not seen these statistics in a while, but the average person who drinks while they drive has been so approximately 2000 times before even a casual run in with the law.