Well loose lips sink ships, but here goes. I took a ride up to the Kinzua Dam/Rimrock/Jakes Rocks and here is what I found:
There was a plastic Barrycade at the dam parking lot with the expected "Closed until further notice" sign. There were many Fall Foliage peepers there that had just drove around the stupid little plastic sawhorse. Motorcycles and cars in the lot, families out walking onto the dam and along the path on the side of the road. Life goes on.
At Jakes Rocks the gate was closed with the sign about congress' impass... and many cars parked at the locked gate, as people just ignored the gate and sign and walked in.
Same deal at Rimrock, just like the picture I posted from the paper.
Well, I made the trip for a reason, this situation begged for a tad of civil disobedience, and I suppose there is comfort knowing everyone parked at these locations were similarly saying "FUBO".
Well, I had brought along with me some tape and some printouts of various sizes of these two signs:
You know where this is going...
So, yeah, little vandal, anarchist, TEA party extremist me taped 8-1/2"x11" copies of those 2 pictures right on the gates for all to see, next to the "Closed" signage. At Rimrock there were 2 pickups parked there at the locked metal gate, so I took the last 2 0bama ones that I had printed out as 3"x5" postcards and put them under the wiperblades facing the driver.
I feel petty, but good in a way. I hope people at least take a millisecond and think about what is going on in this country. I wish I took pictures to upload, but didn't have my camera with me.
Driving back to town, I saw the gate for the consession area near the boat launch was Barrycaded (another locked metal pemanent gate) with a "Congressional Impass" sign as well, but I had run out of printouts at that point.
I hope more people out there act out. It's time. If this goes another week, boltcutters may have to be applied to these locks... the leaves are just really spectacular at these overlooks... lots of reds and oranges and yellows, still mixed in with the green.
