A nice Seattle type day

As of yesterday, the city of Wichita and surrounding areas were suppose to get this huge ice storm. And as it turns out, yeah....its just rain. It is raining outside and it got cold enough to freeze on trees, roads, etc. So the trees look all kinds of beautiful with the ice and whatnot, but at any moment limbs could snap and fall on power lines and cause blackouts all over the place. I'm no city counsel man or anything like that, but wouldn't a preventative step be removing limbs that are above power lines? Sure it would cost millions of dollars and that is what governments do...spend obscene amounts of money on stupid stuff like that? Or how about the power company remove the branches. It would save them the hassle of running around in shitty weather like this to try to get the power up and running again in the event it went out. But what do I know?

So the funny part of this whole situation is last night, schools were closing left and right. Of course, the thought was that we were going to get this huge ice storm and the city would shut down, etc. etc. etc. Well, they need to man the fuck up and brave the 'bad weather'. Or wait until a storm actually happens. Even if the roads were icy and dangerous first thing this morning, they are fine now. It is raining, it isn't freezing yet. I understand that these people down here in Kansas don't get that you can go out and drive around when the weather isn't the best...you can't drive 70 on the highway like they usually do, but you can still go out. Earlier this week, there were over one hundred accidents because of the weather. That should be changed to 'over one hundred accidents due to asinine driving'. People need to realize that. You can't go flying down the highway at seventy or eighty miles an hour when it is icy. It gets to the point where it is just laughable. Year in and year out, this shitty weather comes and nothing ever changes.

It would help if the city could figure out how the hell to plow and remove snow/ice from the roads. That could alleviate some of the problems. I go to work at seven o'clock in the morning. It is but a short little drive, but the roads are never plowed or salted by that time. The city needs to learn to not keep store hours. Get the drivers out there at four or five in the morning and start clearing the roads. Even when they do plow the roads, they forget about the turning lane...brilliant! They clear the two driving lanes, and leave one full of snow and salt and slush. NOT SAFE! They should fly in some people from Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas to show them how to clear the roads.

So part of the problem is the drivers themselves not driving for conditions, but the big problem is the government not being proactive in making sure that the roads stay a little bit safer for their drivers. Why do we pay taxes again? Oh right, the arena they are going to build downtown that'll bust out in a few years. I forgot about that.