YAY! Blue Ridge Parkway in NC Reopened!
It's a week earlier than announced, with a two-lane 'jog' around the 200 yard long failed area. 15 mph speed limit thru that area, and they made a point of saying that it will be enforced. (This is...
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I did not mean anything negative about the next rock slide.
The first time I was on the Parkway I was unfamiliar with the fact that "rock slides" do not mean a bunch of people in heavy equipment just scurry out and pick up the debris. These events are engineering projects unto themselves and often times weeks pass before work can even begin. I also noted the permanent gates (no sawhorses or orange barrels) to section off the parkway at strategic locations.
When there is a problem, you get down off the parkway, drive for many, many detour miles and then finally drive back up onto the parkway.
Off the topic, but in connection with that drive down off the parkway, I wonder how these new cars that advertise automatic transmissions with six or more speeds, are downshifted into the proper gear. If I owned one I would check the owners manual. The first time I downshifted one too few gears, and it was not too long before we could smell the brakes heating up.
The first time I was on the Parkway I was unfamiliar with the fact that "rock slides" do not mean a bunch of people in heavy equipment just scurry out and pick up the debris. These events are engineering projects unto themselves and often times weeks pass before work can even begin. I also noted the permanent gates (no sawhorses or orange barrels) to section off the parkway at strategic locations.
When there is a problem, you get down off the parkway, drive for many, many detour miles and then finally drive back up onto the parkway.
Off the topic, but in connection with that drive down off the parkway, I wonder how these new cars that advertise automatic transmissions with six or more speeds, are downshifted into the proper gear. If I owned one I would check the owners manual. The first time I downshifted one too few gears, and it was not too long before we could smell the brakes heating up.
