Today we had our first major downpour to bring the temperature down significantly. Actually, we’ve had a pretty wet Fall. Now if we just had wet Falls for about a decade, maybe we’d return to the water levels we used to have in the Nineties thanks to all the overdevelopment…I mean growth as the Republicans and Plutocrats call it.
There’s an upside. I start to wear my cold-weather Chucks! I get to break out my biker jacket, compared to the Midwest, it’s the heaviest thing I need to wear here to stay comfortably warm. Throw in a scarf and decent gloves, boom! perfection. Layers definitely work better here. Soup and chili for dinner or lunch.
This morning it’s a good thing we left the house early, somebody didn’t use their brain and wrecked into the underpass to I-35 at the main exit from Pflugerville. It took us 30 minutes to get from the main drag out to Wells Branch (the main thoroughfare we take until McNeil or Parmer to work). The cops had the whole area blocked off so we had to drive on the feeders all the way north to Grand Avenue (a mile away), use the U-turn, then south until Wells Branch. It was smoother sailing afterwards. With such a late start, I knew to skip McNeil. Despite the newer lanes/asphalt on the street in front of McNeil HS, the protected left on to Parmer is a mess after 6:45.
Sounds like complaining. Not really. After 21 years, it’s not hard to remember how this would be a “warm” day in Wisconsin or Illinois. Let’s see, it’s mid-November now. Yeah, the temperatures would close to freezing at night and we’d be lucky to have a peak in the low 50s F during the day. I’ll take this due to it being par for the course, except for the car accidents. Within a month, most dumbasses here will finally remember not to drive too quickly and how to properly use their ABS. As for driving while being on the phone? I doubt you can fix a deeper ingrained idiocy, like voting Republican.