Posted on 07/17/2011 6:23:12 AM PDT by tomd2
Normally congested stretches of road leading up to the freeway had extremely light traffic late Friday evening and Saturday morning. Local news stations have reporters and cameras seemingly everywhere, giving Carmageddon live reports, round-the-clock coverage.
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I take a different view. I think it shows just how effective the media can be at manipulating sheeple.
Evidence of sanity amongst LA residents.
The media; not so much.
In 1976 for the bi centennial July 4 parade of ships up the Hudson River we were told to stay off the roads by the media.
I did not. In fact drove in from eastern PA. The roads were empty, even by Saturday standards. An easy ride.
Since then I have dis regarded traffic hype.
I spent three days on the water that weekend. The media was screaming there would be mayhem on the water with all the boat traffic. Well, there WERE thousands of boats in the harbor and on the Hudson that Sunday and two lives WERE lost. A small rowboat with a kicker and three people overturned in Hell Gate and one was lost. The other was a woman in a houseboat who was killed when some miscreant dropped a cement block onto the boat from the 59 St. bridge. She was in the galley washing dishes at the time.
So is the birthrate going to explode in 9 months??
Yep.
Another example. The Oakland-SF Bridge carries over 250K cars per day. It was damaged in earthquake and to be shut down for a month to repair. All we heard was how horrible it would be to get around the area.
People adapted and traffic was lighter than normal.
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