We had several inches of mud and debris clogging the cooling coils, etc.An action shot--Darell knew just what to do.
He did technical stuff, while I dug a trench for the mud and water.
On a completely different subject:
I read this essay by George Will (courtesy of the Newsweek Magazine which Mom and Dad send us at work--thanks!)
Its called High Speed Insolvency--Why Liberals Love Trains
Why do we borrow BILLIONS of dollars to build trains to take us from Point A to Point B more slowly, and at higher cost, than airplanes, and that almost no one uses?
He thinks he has the answer.
What do you think?
2 comments:
Good insights in the article (individualism vs. collectivism). Another interesting criticism of the administration's emphasis on HSR is that it's a high-stakes, international version of "keeping up with the Joneses."
However, I support HSR (at least in California) for a few reasons:
1) We need to improve infrastructure. ASCE has graded the current US system as a D.
2) HSR decreases (short-distance) flight traffic, alleviating the pressure to expand airports. How much do you think they're going to increase capacity at JFK, Long Beach, and LAX in the next 20 years to accommodate the expected population growth?
3)IF (and that's admittedly a very big "if") we're going to borrow too much money to spend on something, it might as well be on something that improves transportation and removes traffic from our other overcrowded transit systems.
4) Developing new technology often has unforeseen benefits. Innovation in the space and defense industries in the latter half of the twentieth century bore fruit in fields from computers to medicine.
^ This
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