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01-17-2017, 04:25 AM

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And, since I am bitching and moaning and you are being patronizing... Saturday was NOT a fun day to travel. The weather was somewhere between a heavy drizzle and an absolute downpour the entire way with temps (as reported by the dashboard of Bobbie's car) somewhere between 28 and 34 degrees. We were fine - didn't fishtail or slide or anything - but it was about four hours of total concentration and some serious puckering (especially in Garrett County - where there is always bad weather). Fortunately traffic was light and the roads were heavily treated. We only saw one accident (a bad one, too) and that was on Sunday.

We made it okay, had a nice time and drove home in good weather so, all and all,

Still... Not one of the brainiest things I think I have ever done.

Should have been working on your teleporter instead of the bathroom.

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01-17-2017, 04:44 AM

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Should have been working on your teleporter instead of the bathroom.

Meh... With my luck, I'd end up like The Fly.

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01-17-2017, 05:49 AM

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An article in The New Yorker referring to the fall of the Tunnel Tree in Calaveras County, California Big Trees State Park:

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The temptation is to herald the tunnel tree’s death as an emblem. (The Times, in a second piece, presented its collapse as a symbol of this dire American season.) It is also easy, maybe just, for humans to take blame. Although trees often fall in storms, sequoias are equipped for the long haul—their stance is wide; their bark is fire-resistant—and a spell of winter weather is unlikely to have felled the tunnel tree without the huge, destabilizing chasm near its roots. We made the tree our own and, in the process, took away its immortality. It experienced time as few sequoias can, through human eyes: with friendship, wounds, some fame, and death.

The Death of the Tunnel Tree - The New Yorker

It is TL;DR but I would encourage you to read it anyways - 'tis well written.