Does anyone know of a farm in the Willamette Valley where I could get about 10lbs of habanero peppers and 10lbs of ripe (red) jalapeno (or serrano) peppers? I'll pick them myself if it helps.
I'm just not going to get enough from my garden.
Who crashed into the crossing arm on one of the railroad crossings on Santiam? I saw the Bridges Newsletter said the crossings were closed until repairs are made.
Although, it made it so I got to get really close to a stopped freight locomotive as I was heading over toward Front Ave on my morning run.
And as far as I know, no one has died because of it (yay)! I think I've seen debris from at least 3 collisions there, which, isn't toooo bad. The intersection definitely has some quirks now compared to being a stop sign. Some observations I've made about driver patterns, and these are all part of an overlapping venn diagram:
- Most people going way over the 15mph posted (suggested?) speed.
- A lot of people treating it like a 4-way stop.
- Clustered traffic seems to take right of way, which isn't correct, but when you're driving too close to the car in front I guess it makes sense to just follow them thru.
- A lot of people hesitating rather than flowing.
- It's probably too small for the traffic volume.
- For a lot of drivers it seems to take too much split second spatial reasoning.
- It's the one place where a cross-traffic left turn seems to take right of way - but not in a bad way.
Anyway.. I like roundabouts. I think this one is starting to work. I believe in the slow is smooth, smooth is fast strategy.
Anyone seen anything scary, or funny happen since this opened up?
Some kind of installation going in. My guess is EV charging station. Anyone know for sure? Is it going to be a tesla station?
It looked like a swap meet or flea market kind of thing. Never saw it advertised anywhere. Never seen it before. Is it an ongoing thing?