Amen.
1 FaverShareViewed: 25 TimesQuoted: Common sense dictates that you have a plan for freakish emergencies, even those that happen only once every decade.
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In this case, three things:
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1. Use salt to melt ice when it risks crippling the city for days
2. Close off streets that are impassable with police and official sign barricades
3. Hire private contractors to help with the plowing efforts
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These measures will not cost hundreds of millions. They should not impact the environment to any significant degree if only used every decade or so.
This bus and another took a hilly side street since Denny was closed . The other bus (not visible in this picture) apparently pushed this bus all the way down the side street. Had the bus not stopped in time, it would have fallen 30 feet onto I-5.
All this happened one block from my apartment. Picture is taken from my cell phone.
More detail here:
http://faves.com/users/sudha/dot/135727362456
Another surprise on the strip in Madison, NJ.
1 FaverShareViewed: 20 TimesQuoted: Do you love ice cream? Well then Madison has the place for you..McCool's Ice Cream Parlour. They have been awarded the best milkshake in NJ by the New Jersey magazine
1 FaverShareViewed: 6 TimesQuoted: Back in 1961 an enterprising young ice cream maker named Reuben Mattus invented an exotic Danish-sounding name, put a map of Scandinavia on the carton, and America's first commercial "super-premium ice-cream," Häagen-Dazs, was born. All but irresistible to anyone with a sweet tooth, the new treat was also loaded with butterfat.
1 FaverShareViewed: 7 TimesQuoted: The Eastside Ben & Jerry’s has a conundrum. The downtown Kirkland development of Lake Street Place is forcing the store to vacate its waterfront location during the upcoming summer months. This puts an obvious damper in the store’s business plan. On numerous summer days, we have walked past a long line of ice cream addicts salivating out the Ben & Jerry’s door.
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