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Houston, we have traffic
Why does highway traffic flow up to the exit, right past the exit, and then, suddenly, come to a near halt? Only, 100 meters later, to speed up again? It’s like everyone suddenly realizes they passed an exit and they all feel the need to slam on the brakes: “Oh my god! An exit! Did everyone get off ok? All the new cars on? Everyone in their lanes? Yes? Phew. Let’s go then!“ And off the zoom.
Seriously. I could understand if people were slowing down before or right at the exit, but 100 meters after? I don’t get it.
Not much going on for me; I just ended up in rush hour traffic today and came away baffled. And amused. Mostly baffled, though.
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We have traffic in CA too. I have decided that the state could save a lot of money by not printing the Drivers Manual. Nobody reads it anyways. We have many new imigrants here. Sometimes it takes them a while to find out that you need a license to drive a car here.
The way the news stations are handling Gustav is still driving me crazy. I just don’t understand this build-the-hysteria thing they’re doing. I thought maybe it was just my inexperience with hurricane season, but a couple people from work have confirmed the news folks are acting like nuts. Good to know.
I’ve heard people are starting to evacuate their horses from New Orleans. Makes sense to me—I’d be dong that too. I wouldn’t want to be trying to evacuate even one horse in the middle of an ordered evacuation, much less trying to figure out how to get several trailer loads of horses out. Better to leave now. See? That’s preparation. Preparation makes sense.
The news stations, they’re just hysterical. I think I’m done watching them; I can’t deal with their spin.
On Aug 26, 2008, Halt Near X said:
Talk about slow news days… Gustav—it’s coming! Hillary—she’ll be speaking later! Gustav—look at the predicated path! Hillary—listen to her give the exact speech we predicted! Gustav—still there! Hillary—still democratic! Gustav—yup, see how it changed its status over Haiti, just like we said? Hillary—post-speech analysis. Gustav—OMG! Course change! But don’t relax yet: it’s still coming! Hillary—oh, no, I think the news is Hillary-ed out, and it’s all Gustav, all the time now. They are going to drive me crazy by Sunday.
How in the world do Texans deal with this constant prepare-prepare-prepare some more rhetoric? Prepare once! Stay prepared! Oh, wait, that’s earthquake thinking. I like earthquake thinking better, frankly.