From: Noel Taylor
Columbus
I can think of nothing more strange than official actions related to weather — unless, of course, you count stories of Nazis living on Mars for the past 70 years. At least the latter has some basis in reality, such as when NASA astronauts reported craft flashing by their positions in space on the right trajectory. But I digress.
Treating our streets with brine solution just before heavy rains that the National Weather Service has already predicted, and spreading rock salt around public buildings after all traces of the rainstorm have already dried up, are done routinely without consideration either of wasted public resources or of adverse effects upon vegetation and groundwater.
It’s our tax dollars at work, apparently used to convince us that someone is actually doing something. Sure, government services often are performed quite well, but if we don’t confront the absurd, it could become the norm. Perhaps I should point out that it already has.
