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I think some people fail to realize that US utilities are private companies here and that the rolling blackouts are caused by privatization of utilities.
I'm starting to question why anyone lives in California
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Imagine the trouble we could cause if we did have natural disasters! E-A-G-L-E-S, EAGLES!
I am from WV. We're too far inland for hurricanes to mean more than a bit of heavyish rain, nowhere near a fault line, the mountains limit the formation of and damages done by tornados, and it's humid enough that the forest that covers everything doesn't burn often or seriously. Our biggest problem is flooding in some of the hollows, but I live near the Kanawha where there's a series of flood control dams. Oh and land is cheap (albeit rarely flat), and cost of living is low.
Just ignore that our representation in media includes the movie version of Silent Hill (which was based on Centralia, PA but transplanted to WV, while the game version is in New England) and the Wrong Turn movies (a series of horror movies about cannibal hill folk). Also that Daily Show "small town America" bit about Jefferson, WV which was sadly really quite accurate although it has since been disbanded, and most of the strip clubs and cheap motels there have gone under.
To be fair, WV and PA are very geographically similar. Like, if I drive west along southern PA, I get to drive through tunnels in PA, take bridges across rivers on the brief swing down into West Virginia, and then there's Ohio. Boring, boring Ohio.
Just me, but little pisses me off more than people who deliberately live in chaparral and subtropical coniferous forest land, who screech and scream about their chosen habitat's ecosystem but proceed to whine "NIMBY!" and "muh environment!" when it comes to any action which might realistically mitigate the impact of said ecosystem on human habitation. Especially when these people who may or may not have ever actually seen a barnyard animal in their life, try to tell my heartland, farm-raised, hunter ass I know nothing about the environment, conservation, or agriculture policy.
Don't forget the radon. And heavy metal contamination, now that I think of it.
That reminds me of when this family from New York built a home out in the country down from my family's farm, but next to a cattle rancher and then proceeded to call the cops because there were cows disturbing the peace mooing keeping her from sleeping. HAHA XD
IT was REALLY funny when she woke up with them all in her yard and she was afraid to go outside.. We had that happen all the time and just walked around them to get on the bus to go to school. The BULL OTOH that was a mess... He broke our front porch steps trying to get my brother " Jethro" ( nickname HAHA!) after the dumbarse threw firecrackers at it... No one could go in or out for hours. The sheriff and the bull's owner showed up some time later and tranquilized it so it couldn't ram the front door. THAT was actually funny though when the bus pulled up and they saw what was happening and no one could go outside due to the raging bull. LMAO
People moving out to the country and then are freaked out by it being the country can be entertaining at times though.
The parts that are close together. Though PA interstate has a bad habit of just going in a straight line over terrain while WV highways tend to wrap around things. Last time I drove with a friend to DC to pick up
So basically along the Mason-Dixon line? Yeah, the very southern edge of PA and the very northern edge of WV are pretty similar. Come down to southern WV and that's less the case. Around say Charleston or Beckley (2 of the larger cities in the state) if all mountains covered in trees and roads that vaguely resemble kiddie roller coaster tracks. For example, Route 60 between Gauley Bridge and Fayetteville is where I first learned that those warning signs for curves ahead have a maximum number of curves they will depict before resorting to a generic "curvy" symbol. It's fun to do that stretch of road at twice the listed speed limit, although it's less interesting now that it has guard rails down most of it - not nearly as many spots where you can fall 20 feet and then get impaled on a tree.
At least we agree on something.
Not nearly as bad as they used to be, at least in this part of the state. The Kanawha is always in shoddy shape though (but still not as bad as it used to be) - my father-in-law used to work for DuPont and likes to talk about being annoyed that they once had to build a filtration system because they were pulling in river water, running it through a heat exchanger as a coolant, and dumping it back into the river and the water coming into the plant did not meet emissions standards for them to release it back into the river so they were actually dumping cleaner water than they took in.
I've also personally delivered parts to the Bayer plant in Institute that handles methyl isocyanate. That drive through the plant made me realize how easy it would be to kill everyone in the valley. Such poor security. That stuff is an irritant at "low" concentrations and is considered an Immediate Danger to Life or Health at 3ppm. To be fair, it's made less toxic so it can be used as a pesticide.
I feel rather out of my depth here. I tend to have a hard time describing things when I have nothing to compare things with and I've barely been outside of Missouri or Kansas so I don't have anything I can compare it with to describe it that I would be sure are unique.
Now we need to start a Missourian refugee fund for Specter so you can escape to something better.. XD you likely wouldn't want to go back HAHA!
You may want to move quick though.. can we be sure there aren't any local human traffickers on the lookout for a new pad?
Historic Missouri home comes with a nine-cell jail
A brick home in Fayette, Missouri that just hit the market was built for the Howard County Sheriff and still has a jail attached.
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NIMBYs are the fuckin worst. If I don't do it in their backyard, I'll have to do it in mine, and I just got it looking nice.
The big highways blast through straight lines, but I've kinda followed the Appalachian Mountains southwest over time, and we've got plenty of curves. That being said, West Virginia is gorgeous.
Yeah, in my limited westward experience, I think Ohio is really the blandest possible state. There's nothing interesting. It's basically flat, except it's just not flat enough to let you see for miles like the really flat places do. Better to pretend it doesn't exist.
What could possibly be more quintessentially American than one of the companies that manufactured chlorine and phosgene gas for imperial Germany, and later Zyklon-B and sarin for the Nazis, manufacturing on US soil the same chemical involved in the Bhopal disaster, under similar conditions that led to it? And not one fuckin' bit of that being coincidence, what with MIC's precursors being methylamine (the "meth" part of that being relevant and humorous, if you're familiar with the Nazis' relationship with drugs) and phosgene, and MIC itself being a precursor for polyurethane.
Yea, the Nazi's got the idea from the US:
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Don't let Trump find out, he doesn't need more border ideas. He would add this to the security for his border wall.
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Somehow I think that needs some locusts.. frogs or aliens or something as well. That is just blood and fire, we can handle blood and fire no sweat.. Flying teletubbies with Frog legs OTOH that would be scary.
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PG&E is literally a capitalist corporation and they're responsible for the rolling blackouts.
Come on, I can only do so much with an image of that size. I'm a philosopher not a miracle worker!