The evacuation pictures are simply amazing. All those people in cars, idling, running out of gas on the highway leading out of Houston. Heck, I don't even do that in rush hour traffic...when it goes "stop and go" I turn my engine off. Wait for a few car lengths to open up in front of me, start my car, and move forward and turn it off again. Occasionally I get out to see what the guy behind me is honking about. (grin!) In Toronto they have a 3 minute idling rule. You simply cannot stop in front of a hotel, or convenience store or whatever and sit in the air conditioning waiting for your significant other to come out. Wonder how it will play out come the winter because they also have a "no smoking" bylaw preventing people from smoking in donut shops! So folks have the habit of smoking in their cars out in the parking lot while they slurp back their morning coffee and doughnut.
I hear that a LOT of homes are not insured, or that the insurance companies are not paying out down there in the gulf states. Seems reasonable...they would go bankrupt if they did! The didn't become multi billion dollar corporations by writing cheques.
My heart goes out to the people in Galveston. I wonder if the thousand days of lovely beach weather is worth the 22 foot storm surges which come by every 75 years or so. Maybe they would like to pick up a house up here, where the temperature goes to minus 35 for a couple of weeks every year, and we pay more for heating our house than we pay for mortgage!
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The evacuation pictures are simply amazing. All those people in cars, idling, running out of gas on the highway leading out of Houston. Heck, I don't even do that in rush hour traffic...when it goes "stop and go" I turn my engine off. Wait for a few car lengths to open up in front of me, start my car, and move forward and turn it off again. Occasionally I get out to see what the guy behind me is honking about. (grin!)
In Toronto they have a 3 minute idling rule. You simply cannot stop in front of a hotel, or convenience store or whatever and sit in the air conditioning waiting for your significant other to come out. Wonder how it will play out come the winter because they also have a "no smoking" bylaw preventing people from smoking in donut shops! So folks have the habit of smoking in their cars out in the parking lot while they slurp back their morning coffee and doughnut.
I hear that a LOT of homes are not insured, or that the insurance companies are not paying out down there in the gulf states. Seems reasonable...they would go bankrupt if they did! The didn't become multi billion dollar corporations by writing cheques.
My heart goes out to the people in Galveston. I wonder if the thousand days of lovely beach weather is worth the 22 foot storm surges which come by every 75 years or so. Maybe they would like to pick up a house up here, where the temperature goes to minus 35 for a couple of weeks every year, and we pay more for heating our house than we pay for mortgage!
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