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JRscooby
Mar 06, 2021Explorer II
Hammerboy wrote:
A lot of debate about electric going on here. I can imagine at the turn of century 120 years ago there were a lot of people sitting on their saddle or in thier buggy scoffing at these early gas powered machines. Not near as many buggies these days.
Dan
Then as now, some of that debate was based on valid reasoning. As late as 1970 my family had to gravel 1/4 mile of the county road between the house and the road the county graveled. Go past the house, about 3 miles of graded dirt before you got to gravel again.
Once the school bus I was on went in a ditch in a snow storm. Driver and about a dozen kids walked 1/4 mile to nearest house. Farmer mounted a work horse to go couple miles to a house that had phone to inform parents. 3 days later uncle showed up with a bale sled behind a team of mules to deliver food, and take some of use home. It was over a week before the roads where open to normal traffic.
The cars, and infrastructure have always spread together.
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