Super Bloom !!! Look what I found out in the flowers...

[The Goose]

Look what I found out in the super bloom.

Just kiddin, these flowers showed up in the mail Friday. I’m a giant fan of the Chrysler Crew stuff. We had a ‘76 or ‘77 and that thing could pull 3 skiers. Anyways figured you guys might dig a new Chrysler Crew shirt while out captaining your sea body.

Check out Retroboater.com these shirts are nice and dirt cheep. $10 bucks for the jets and the heavy collar crew shirt was $20 still a pretty good deal. They do mugs and stuff too. Give ‘em a look if you like the shirts. I do!!!

 

[livininharrow]

is it an optical dillusion or is the asphalt all ****** up in the first pic?

 

[Davea Lux]

is it an optical dillusion or is the asphalt all ****** up in the first pic?

Asphalt over expansion stripped concrete. Always breaks at the expansion joints.

Dave

 

[The Goose]

is it an optical dillusion or is the asphalt all ****** up in the first pic?

Sadly yes. California for all the money they take (I meant rake, thanks autospell), in has the worst roads in the Nation. I remember driving out from Tempe in the 80’s bouncing toward California on the 10 and saying only xxx more miles to good road. Man when you crossed over to Calif from Az it was night and day. They were super duper. Now it’s the exact opposite. When we go back to Az to see our the kid at ASU the roads suck until you hit Az’s magic carpet roads. No explanation we have the highest gas tax in the USA. 100% malfeasance.

 

[Davea Lux]

Sadly yes. California for all the money they take (I meant rake, thanks autospell), in has the worst roads in the Nation. I remember driving out from Tempe in the 80’s bouncing toward California on the 10 and saying only xxx more miles to good road. Man when you crosses over to Calif from Az it was night and day. They were super duper. Now it’s the exact opposite. When we go back to Az to see or the kid at ASU the roads suck until you hit Az’s magic carpet roads. No explanation we have the highest gas tax in the USA. 100% malfeasance.

If they fix the roads, it might kill the flowers that grow thru the cracks. Its very stupid, they now require an enviornmental impact statement to put in a street sign. And they wonder why contractors are starting to avoid California like the plague.

Dave

 

[The Goose]

That’s also 6 mos straight of rain and freeze damage. This year some of these old neglected roads just plain fell apart. I work for CAT you wouldn’t believe what I’ve seen. And when they close they almost never reopen...

 

[livininharrow]

Asphalt over expansion stripped concrete. Always breaks at the expansion joints.

Dave

I was looking at the middle of the road where the dotted lines are. never seen a road in my 45 years of driving look like that. looks dangerous

 

[Davea Lux]

I was looking at the middle of the road where the dotted lines are. never seen a road in my 45 years of driving look like that. looks dangerous

Agreed, it does look the the center of the road is pushed up.

Dave

 

[The Goose]

If they fix the roads, it might kill the flowers that grow thru the cracks. Its very stupid, they now require an enviornmental impact statement to put in a street sign. And they wonder why contractors are starting to avoid California like the plague.

Dave

I cover north of LA to mammoth lakes and all of Death Valley to Nevada for CAT. The best example I’ve seen of what your saying was Vasqez Canyon rd. It collapsed due to a mud slide. But the mud wouldn’t cover the road it would go under it and stand it on end like a fence. Public Works fixed it twice and then abandoned it. Keep in mind thousands of cars used it daily and there are two 30 plus and maybe an hour long bypasses. This road being shut screwed over a lot of people.

This is what happened.

They was no way to mitigate the hard rock shelf under the road so they had to go after the soft dirt hill. They opened talks with the owner then he died. Then the family was too sad to discuss it ($$$) so everybody waited. Then they had to eminent domain it. Off to court.... then they had to purchase the mountain side they were removing. The state would own it until it was removed then there was nothing left to own as the family retained the bare slope. It makes your head hurt. After all that Pulic Works threw up a road in a few weeks THEN Cal Edison got involved... long story short this major cut thru was closed on and off for 4 years and maybe 2 years solid.

Go Kalifornia!!!!!

 

[Davea Lux]

Did anybody do an impact statement of the makeshift skate park? Fixing that looks like it would be an engineering nightmare.

Dave

 

[The Goose]

Agreed, it does look the the center of the road is pushed up.

Dave

The roads out here aren’t crowned on purpose. There is so much earthquake related malarkey that the roads shift and we rarely bury power lines. Ever wonder why a place as modern (what a joke), as California doesn’t bury the ugly power lines like in Az. It’s cause of earthquake damage related maintenance. Even the canals are above ground as giant pipes instead of underground. It’s just easier and cheaper.

 

[The Goose]

Did anybody do an impact statement of the makeshift skate park? Fixing that looks like it would be an engineering nightmare.

Dave

It was closed so long the cops gave up keeping the kids out. The whole place was cover in graffiti and it was an unofficial state mountainbike - skateboarding and motocross park. Nobody cared...

 

[livininharrow]

I hope the utility server killed the power to those high voltage power lines within skateboard distance.

 

[The Goose]

This power pole was perfectly plumb. If you tilt the pic you get an idea of how bad this was.

This winter 6 mos of solid rain from Nov until a week ago the road never faltered. They fixed it pretty good when they were allowed to.

I guess you can see that in the skate pic too.

 

[TNTrooper428]

Looks like Memphis City streets without the hills.

 

[The Goose]

I hope the utility server killed the power to those high voltage power lines within skateboard distance.

Nope the poles weren’t really effected. Mud slid right past them and under the blacktop. The power must go thru!!! Kids safety be damned !!!

At first they’d arrest you if you got caught out there. They hassled me and I was working on it. I wear street clothes at work and without my hard hat and vest they thought the busted another civilian. $$$.

 

[The Goose]

If they fix the roads, it might kill the flowers that grow thru the cracks. Its very stupid, they now require an enviornmental impact statement to put in a street sign. And they wonder why contractors are starting to avoid California like the plague.

Dave

Funny you say that. When Jerry Brown decided we needed a 40 billion dollar super train he WAIVED all the most holy environmental impact stuff. Right thru the middle of the most valuable farm land in Bakersfield. They said it would decimate the bee population. Much like North Korea they do what they like, hypocrisy be damned. We sold them hundreds of millions worth of never used equipment for the train job that’s sat so long it’s now junk. Somebody is surely going to jail over this train debacle. Trump now is involved and the cat is out of the bag.

You know what, I better shut up about that I like my job...

 

[CBODY67]

Well . . . I was looking at the wild flowers rather than the roads, at first. Secondly, the deep blue sky. Neat t-shirts!

CBODY67

 

[1978 NYB]

Flowers look great!

 

[CBODY67]

Funny you say that. When Jerry Brown decided we needed a 40 billion dollar super train he WAIVED all the most holy environmental impact stuff. Right thru the middle of the most valuable farm land in Bakersfield. They said it would decimate the bee population. Much like North Korea they do what they like, hypocrisy be damned. We sold them hundreds of millions worth of never used equipment for the train job that’s sat so long it’s now junk. Somebody is surely going to jail over this train debacle. Trump now is involved and the cat is out of the bag.

You know what, I better shut up about that I like my job...

Funny you mention those environmental things, as we're hearing much similar environmental dialogue about "the wall" in south TX. Through family farms, wild life refuges, butterfly sanctuaries, etc.

Back to the wild flower pictures. Are those really wild flowers or infestations of pretty weeds?

CBODY67