Hot Sauce Day 2016 Night

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Good evening. Currently mostly cloudy and 20 degrees in Delmar. Tonight will be cloudy, with a low around 17. North wind 5 to 7 mph. Waxing gibbous moon, setting at 6:13 am. Tomorrow’s sunrise will be at 7:17 am with first light at 6:46 am, which is one minute and 45 seconds earlier then today.

I hope you had a good Hot Sauce Day. Sleep well!

Hot Sauce Day 2016 Evening

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Good Evening on this Friday. As we head into the weekend it is mostly clear and 26 degrees in Delmar. Tonight will get increasingly clear, with a low around 17. North wind 5 to 7 mph.

Tonight to start out a potentially quite nice weekend we have a beautiful full moon on tap. It really is beautiful as we see the Wolf Moon rise over the city. Saturday will be cloudy with breaks of sun, especially as you head north, with a high near 27. North wind 8 to 10 mph. Look for more sun and somewhat warmer weather come Sunday with highs around freezing or slightly above.

Due to traffic the bus got a somewhat late start out of the city but not traffic is moving well and I expect to be home fairly early. It’s been an awful long salt encrusted weekend. I’ll wash Big Red and get some of the salt off it but still the rust belt. Even if they’ve gotten better at fighting rust on the body panels, rust eats everything else on cars and chews aways on the bridges and stains all our clothes and boots with salt.

I really hate winters in the rust belt.

The infrastructure crisis

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I was listening to the evening news bemoaning how bad the local infrastructure is and how we must spend billions repairing it.

My response:

1) What percentage of Americans last year died due to bridges collapsing under them?

2) What percentage of Americans died from last year from drinking contaminated drinking water or exposure to untreated sewage?

American infrastructure is decaying and needs maintenance. But so does all man-made things as soon as their exposed to the forces of nature and constant use. Just because something is old and worn looking, doesn’t mean it can’t preform it’s duties within engineered limits. We have to trust the science and continue to learn the limits of materials. We should only upgrade or replace infrastructure when science says it’s necessary or when demands on its use justify the change.