soapbox

I thought “from the road” was the most appropriate category, since this one is about traffic safety.

So, on my unsuccessful trip to the FedEx center in Lebanon, I noticed some of those yellow plastic water barrels around a guard rail near the entrance to the big Centerra complex off of route 120.

Ostensibly, those things are put there as a safety device: they would either alert drivers that they were about to hit the guardrail and/or to cushion the blow of hitting it if you can’t stop in time. Given the weather conditions, it occurred to me that at this time of year, those suckers are probably frozen solid.

I’m guessing that hitting what appears to be the equivalent of a 55-gallon (or more, which means at least 450 lbs. of ice) drum full of ice is way more catastrophic than hitting the guardrail. Wonder if anyone’s done a study on this..?

Welcome back Nick! and congrats on the nice iTunes addition of the Kris Kristofferson.

P.S. I admit that the Steelers *could* have won had Palmer not gotten his knee broken, and the Bengals did fight on admirably in his absence, but still… I’m not excited about next Saturday night’s game in Denver, for several reasons.

P.P.S. What happened to the Giants? Normally I wouldn’t care, and maybe even argue that there’s a bit karmic retribution coming their way, but my cousin is a big G-men fan and thus I have to tread carefully the next week.