I just have one question. Quoting from the link above:
Police were put on full tactical alert, with numerous reports of traffic accidents because of streetlights being out. As a result, slow traffic was seen on some major thoroughfares.
"Slow traffic on some major thoroughfares"? How is this differentiable from normal?
Somebody mentioned this on NPR. The spokesperson said that it was even worse than usual because suddenly every intersection over half of a city that relies almost entirely on auto transport had become a four-way stop.
Or alternately, you could consider what L.A. traffic is normally like, and then consider what it would have to be to get Angelenos to consider it "slow". And then shudder.
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Date: 2005-09-12 09:50 pm (UTC)(I know you're just continuing the dialogue, but
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Date: 2005-09-12 09:56 pm (UTC)Police were put on full tactical alert, with numerous reports of traffic accidents because of streetlights being out. As a result, slow traffic was seen on some major thoroughfares.
"Slow traffic on some major thoroughfares"? How is this differentiable from normal?
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Date: 2005-09-13 04:50 pm (UTC)But I'm mainly commenting to have a mini-fangirl moment for the in-conversation use of theword "differentiable".
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Date: 2005-09-13 10:12 pm (UTC)Or alternately, you could consider what L.A. traffic is normally like, and then consider what it would have to be to get Angelenos to consider it "slow". And then shudder.
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Date: 2005-09-13 10:32 pm (UTC)Hell no longer holds any terror for me.
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Date: 2005-09-13 10:34 pm (UTC)