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I absolutely HATED that part of the water bills. You have no idea how many times I had to explain that to customers. That and how they thought tax dollars went to pay for us. Nope. You flushy, you pay. You brushy teethy, you pay. You need to have greenest grassy, you pay. We are like the cable bill. But not as assholish.

^these posts brought to you by your lone water lobby person called: me

This here. I can 100% tell y'all that when spring and summer hit the main drain on the systems are lawn watering that runs for hours. Most water tanks basically get dragged down starting at 5am. Water utilities basically spend all day keeping pace with demand and never refilling those tanks until 11pm when people start to go to bed. The entire night is spent refilling tanks for the start of the next day's demands. I hate sprinkler systems I'm sure there will be plans to expand treatment plants again soon due to ever increasing demands. The fact that it costs what it does for water is amazing. And remember its NEVER water that costs as much on your bill. 75% of a water bill can be from the sewage charge which is based on water consumption which is another reason not to water lawns.

Well speaking from what my former profession was, when abnormally dry conditions hit in the winter and spring there is a growing concern because that is when municipalities stockpile water. The reason they want natural help is because aquifers stay good and reservoirs are good to go for summer. When spring and summer hit thats when demands jump and thats typically our dry seasons(late summer). And if groundwater levels fall too much then what happens is when waters are released from reservoirs the ground along they way soaks it up before it gets to where it needs to be. So early dry isn't great from a long term perspective. So yeah, i don't like drought conditions to come about mainly because it take a long, long, long, long time of surplus rains to get things back to square. Heavy dumping rains don't do that well. Constant steady rains over a prolonged period do.

89.2 is my high today

32. Frosty again

Got down to 33 with a ton of frost

Happy Easter!

30° different this morning from my high of 87

i've initiated my chasing from the sofa with booze.

87 for my high. Back to back U80s.

My dream to chase recklessly, zero meter a TOR, get rolled and arrogantly brag has been destroyed. So I’m just gonna sofa chase any storms today.

Had to turn on the AC. House was 82°. Cooler outside this morning but gonna leave the AC on until the front passes

Now 87.2°. Roasting

Just hit 86° IMBY

Low of 37

There was a horrible wreck near me last night that I got stuck in. It appears a car didn’t yield to a fire truck out on a call. Def see a lot of that where cars just don’t move out of the way or stop to allow EMTs to pass

It makes you jaded pretty quickly. You value the ones that help and give death stares to those you know COULD help but don’t.

I’ve been trying to get my daughter to learn this as she starts driving. Mirrors can’t always give the full picture and prevent two people merging into the same lane at the same time. You have to look.

I haven’t had to take a DOT traffic flagging and safety class for a while but I can def tell you that the truck parked where it is is the first line of defense against a vehicle slamming into a work zone. They are supposed to be deployed a distance away so that upon impact it doesn’t get pushed into the work zone. Not sure what the required distance is between crash truck and work zone. OSHA and other rules set that. As far as lane closures, that might almost depend on work and time of day and the permit. There are rules for when work zones along highways can be set up during certain times of the day. Lane closure might not have been permitted. We can’t see the signs set out indicating what kind of work is being done and if there were arrow boards and so on. So that video doesn’t give all the info for how well the crew set up that work area and if they followed proper protocols. This could be where the safety crew set up as needed and this was just a rare type of accident that no amount of prep could have stopped. Blame needs to be put squarely on the two drivers for how things played out. Speed, lack of awareness of the work zone, failing to maintain safe distance, improper lane change and any other factors

The yellow line closing didn't help the VA people from not using their cars. Hopefully repairs like what they have done will ensure better reliability

I wish metro wasn't as much of a cluster eff. Would make for a much more viable means for many and get rid of the need for people to drive into the city.

There was a news story they did right after that crash and they said DC has about 88 MILLION in unpaid tickets. Thats right. 88 Million.

When I joined our pool we didn't even have a website that was easy to find or updated. We've only recently embraced social media as a mean to advertise and had zero marketing when I was on the board. Now there is a more concerted effort to get the name out. And in a lot of ways the success of the swim team was the best advertising we had. But with that came problems. Again, people expected our pool to be this awesome place based on moving up to higher divisions. So the ones only joining for swim team would leave when it didn't meet those expectations. And we have what i call rental families. they only join because of the swim team and don't make much effort to be part of the pool community. Never help on set up/clean up, barely attend social functions, etc. They only use the pool for swim team. So its been a struggle to build a solid group who just enjoy the pool for what it is.

I def thought it could have been impaired driver or distracted. I've seen it a ton just from all the years of working along roads. But as explained, terrible things can happen from accidents and this is just one of those really bad ones. Once cars lose control then anything can happen. And its sad 6 people died.