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View from the Driver's Seat
Oct. 5th, 2006 07:41 amEveryone in the Lehigh Valley area should stop by the Brew House on 248 in Walnutport and buy a drink or two. As suppliers of my Thursday morning chai, I can vouch for them, and Deb has said their coffee is good and reasonably priced.
Their other location - which they've been running for two years and just bought out entirely in August - was in Country Junction (Google News link).
Although insurance will help with some of their loss, I'm willing to bet it won't help make up for everything, particularly lost income, so any extra boost they can get would be a Good Thing.
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They are disassembling a silo/warehouse along the route in - had a couple of cranes there yesterday. The place has at least one tree poking up out of the roof. Today, large sections of the silo were sliced and diced and scattered around the parking lot. One large piece, with about 10' of cylinder and maybe a 30-40' diameter, sat on its cone top, and looked like it had rolled there, right along the road's edge.
Looked like nothing more than a kid's set of blocks or some other construction toy, played with, and then left scattered instead of being put neatly away.
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Driving in early - or driving home last night in the rain-influenced darkness - I've noticed that there are more and more people who don't understand high-beam etiquette. The Jeep this morning subtly revealed that it's driver was an ignorant, self-centered moron as it maintained its high-beams despite oncoming traffic. I, for one, really prefer being able to see the road, especially when its got a few twists and turns and hills and valleys and large hooved rodents wandering across.
A simple trick that works in most places, even on the windiest forestiest roads, is to watch the overhead wires - you'll see the headlights there well before the vehicle itself is in sight. Headlights can be bad enough if they're modern halogen or that damnable blue crap or just at the properly annoying angle with respect to hills and so forth, but kicking off the high beams before blinding an oncoming driver just may keep said blinded driver from driving into you as they blink their eyes and try to regain sight.
On the opposite end of headlight faux pas, when it's dark - even if it's the middle of the day - use the headlights. If the rain comes down, your windshield wipers are on, or a fog rolls in, turn on your lights. Otherwise you don't exist, and hopefully, whoever accidentally plows into you or runs you over, does so in a far larger and heavier vehicle, so they win. No offense, just natural selection in action. Ran into this on the drive back from Massachusetts last weekend - all three states travelled in have, to the best of my knowledge, a law that requires headlights to be used when the windshield wipers are on. Almost, literally, ran into this, as I changed lanes nearly on top of some idiot who I didn't see because of fog or rain.
Their other location - which they've been running for two years and just bought out entirely in August - was in Country Junction (Google News link).
Although insurance will help with some of their loss, I'm willing to bet it won't help make up for everything, particularly lost income, so any extra boost they can get would be a Good Thing.
~ ~ ~
They are disassembling a silo/warehouse along the route in - had a couple of cranes there yesterday. The place has at least one tree poking up out of the roof. Today, large sections of the silo were sliced and diced and scattered around the parking lot. One large piece, with about 10' of cylinder and maybe a 30-40' diameter, sat on its cone top, and looked like it had rolled there, right along the road's edge.
Looked like nothing more than a kid's set of blocks or some other construction toy, played with, and then left scattered instead of being put neatly away.
~ ~ ~
Driving in early - or driving home last night in the rain-influenced darkness - I've noticed that there are more and more people who don't understand high-beam etiquette. The Jeep this morning subtly revealed that it's driver was an ignorant, self-centered moron as it maintained its high-beams despite oncoming traffic. I, for one, really prefer being able to see the road, especially when its got a few twists and turns and hills and valleys and large hooved rodents wandering across.
A simple trick that works in most places, even on the windiest forestiest roads, is to watch the overhead wires - you'll see the headlights there well before the vehicle itself is in sight. Headlights can be bad enough if they're modern halogen or that damnable blue crap or just at the properly annoying angle with respect to hills and so forth, but kicking off the high beams before blinding an oncoming driver just may keep said blinded driver from driving into you as they blink their eyes and try to regain sight.
On the opposite end of headlight faux pas, when it's dark - even if it's the middle of the day - use the headlights. If the rain comes down, your windshield wipers are on, or a fog rolls in, turn on your lights. Otherwise you don't exist, and hopefully, whoever accidentally plows into you or runs you over, does so in a far larger and heavier vehicle, so they win. No offense, just natural selection in action. Ran into this on the drive back from Massachusetts last weekend - all three states travelled in have, to the best of my knowledge, a law that requires headlights to be used when the windshield wipers are on. Almost, literally, ran into this, as I changed lanes nearly on top of some idiot who I didn't see because of fog or rain.
