Alligators are pretty timid, and rarely attack people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_alligator_attacks_in_the_United_States lists about 1 death per year. I went with a walk with a friend in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in the FL panhandle. She was used to walking around with gators lazing there, then getting active in the evening for their hunt. I ... was not. Even knowing that gators are pretty timid.
"After a while" ... and probably a lot of money. Sewer systems aren't designed for wetwipes, so may need a complete re-build to make it become a minor maintenance task. Easier probably to just ban wetwipes. But people like their wetwipes, so banning "flushable" in advertising for products which should not be flushed because of their cost in sewer maintenance, and public awareness of the problems is the main goal.Draino doesn't work on wet wipes, and even if they did, there would need to be an awful lot of chemical added to the system, which would need to be treated. I assume sewer workers have tried options like pressure washers as I doubt most really want to be there working away at obstructions by hand.
I can't help but think of Jimmy Carter's Playboy interview where he said: “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.”
Before we got married, we did a two month road trip. My wife wanted the romanticism of a VW camper. I wanted something that would work. We got a pickup with a camper top, some plywood for flooring, a mattress, food, spare water, and luggage. Worked out pretty well. I tried to work some on the road - did not work well at all. By week 8, we were ready to stop. I can well imagine the worries of using a $2,000 van instead. Was it really a mistake to not monetize their adventure on Instagram? That seems like an awful lot of work, with little chance of making a profit. BTW, my g'parents took their 8(!) kids on a road trip from Michigan to the Grand Canyon using a pickup truck and home-made camper with built-in beds. You don't need to be Kerouac to be on the road.
I wondered how Harlingen handled the Grover Cleveland problem. I would be pleased if it circled around Harrison. Then I noticed it didn't have a Harrison at all! Oh, wait, it does. "Harrison Ave." is in the right place for William Henry Harrison, president for 31 days. Neither Benjamin Harrison nor John Quincy Adams have their own streets, preventing duplicate street names. Looks like the presidents stop with Bush as there's no Clinton.
The idea that 'anyone who reached its edge would fall off' is a modern (well, popularized in the 1800s) myth. Before people were convinced by the Ancient Greek observations that the world must be a sphere - so nearly all educated Westerners for over 2,000 years - the general cosmology was that the world was floating in a vast sea. There was no edge to fall off.
On the same Neatorama front page I read "in sports science, solid advice based on big scientific studies is quite rare. It makes sense when you think about it" as well as "This Study Shows The Effects Of Petting Animals On Your Stress Level". Is the pet study not solid, or is there something fundamentally different about the economics of petting vs. workouts? It seems that in countries where the government pays for health fare there would be an interest in developing a study like this, yes?
Pops, in Arcadia, OK sells far more than "the same sugary swill as any other roadside gas station-restaurant". We went there and bought a lot of different sodas we had never heard of. We've visited worse tourist place in the state. My old boss was a young girl when Weeki Wachee was in it heyday. She said that she and other girls would practice holding their breath in the sink, because of dreams to be a mermaid there. The Plumbing Museum sounds pretty interesting.
The architecture professor argues that internet sales, socializing, etc. are more the final nail in the coffin, for a process which started in the 1990s. She thinks changes in shifts in jobs, wealth, demographic changes, and oversupply are bigger factors. For example, only half as many suburban households have kids now as in the heyday of malls. She also points out that while they are a place to gather, "generally you have to be spending money to be able to hang out there." Since I didn't have much money as a kid, I rarely went to the mall, even to socialize. I went to the library instead. :)
I keep hearing people say that, but I don't see how it's true. If we're really worried about extinction level events, shouldn't we prioritize self-sufficient habitats first? If we had 10,000 truly independent biomes around the world, then there are very few extinction level events which could destroy all of them, and not also destroy other human habitations in the solar system. At the very least, we know that humans can reproduce at 1g - we don't know if we can at 1/3rd g. And certainly people in the high latitudes, or dry cold deserts, would be willing to pay for the sorts of technology only a fraction of the way to what's needed for a self-sustaining Mars colony.
I've fallen asleep while we were still at the gate, and woke up after we were in the air, so I don't find it that incredible. It's not like reports like this are uncommon. Here's a 2010 event, also on Air Canada - https://consumerist.com/2010/04/dont-fall-asleep-on-a-plane-you-might-wake-up-in-the-hangar.html - "According to the passenger, a 31-year-old professor from the UK, he’d nodded off during his flight from Calgary to Vancouver and didn’t wake up until 90 minutes after the plane had landed. The passenger, who had begun the day in London before connecting to the Vancouver-bound flight in Calgary, says he’d been up for 24 hours when he finally fell asleep." The crew is always supposed to check for someone onboard. There might be a child in need of assistance who was told to wait for the staff to help, or there might be someone who for fun wants to stay on the plan to see what happens, or there might be someone who took too a sedative or drank too much and cannot easily wake up.
How does a counselor know if a student is in need? I don't think that getting good grades means students don't have other needs that might be helped by someone whose job it is to help students.
Was it really a mistake to not monetize their adventure on Instagram? That seems like an awful lot of work, with little chance of making a profit.
BTW, my g'parents took their 8(!) kids on a road trip from Michigan to the Grand Canyon using a pickup truck and home-made camper with built-in beds. You don't need to be Kerouac to be on the road.
It seems that in countries where the government pays for health fare there would be an interest in developing a study like this, yes?
My old boss was a young girl when Weeki Wachee was in it heyday. She said that she and other girls would practice holding their breath in the sink, because of dreams to be a mermaid there.
The Plumbing Museum sounds pretty interesting.
She also points out that while they are a place to gather, "generally you have to be spending money to be able to hang out there." Since I didn't have much money as a kid, I rarely went to the mall, even to socialize. I went to the library instead. :)
It's not like reports like this are uncommon. Here's a 2010 event, also on Air Canada - https://consumerist.com/2010/04/dont-fall-asleep-on-a-plane-you-might-wake-up-in-the-hangar.html - "According to the passenger, a 31-year-old professor from the UK, he’d nodded off during his flight from Calgary to Vancouver and didn’t wake up until 90 minutes after the plane had landed. The passenger, who had begun the day in London before connecting to the Vancouver-bound flight in Calgary, says he’d been up for 24 hours when he finally fell asleep."
The crew is always supposed to check for someone onboard. There might be a child in need of assistance who was told to wait for the staff to help, or there might be someone who for fun wants to stay on the plan to see what happens, or there might be someone who took too a sedative or drank too much and cannot easily wake up.