Be careful how you use GPS
GPS can be a wonderful tool. But, recently we had some instances where people were not using there head with it. We had a big blizzard. It got bad enough that the state of MN closed down the inter...
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CavemanCharlie wrote:1995brave wrote:
San Antonio got tired of rescuing people that drove around high water barricades and passed a law. If you go around a barricade or barrier and have to be recued not only do you get a ticket you also have to pay for the rescue. Most end up paying 3-4 thousand dollars for the rescue and the insurance companies will not pay for it.
Yes, but, in this case of what I put in the original post they did not drive around the barricades. They just tried to find different routes down other roads. Those roads were also closed by the local county sheriff but, there was no way for them to know that. Maybe that is part of the solution. The local sheriff needs to have a way to let the GPS system know that roads are closed. That way it would show up as closed on the persons phones and they would not try it. If they did then they would be subject to arrest.
They do it is called WAZE, app for your phone shows real-time traffic and roads
But still people need to pay attention to,what they are doing because things can change quickly in weather
