California --it's not the third world, it's the fourth world.It is the crib of Silicon Valley and cutting edge technology.
Overall, its schools rank in the bottom nationwide.
We have lots of plastic surgeons.
Our unemployment rate is 8.4%.
We have movie stars.
We have a growing homeless population.
There are any number of "life coaches" available for a fee.
But many of our mentally ill are on the streets.
60% of the population speaks Spanish.
Our Austrian-born Governator says "Caleeeforrrrrneeee-yah."
The state has no budget.
The state is issuing IOU's for tax refunds.
Last fall we had big fires.
The other night we had an earthquake.
Yesterday we had Santa Ana Winds.
And now our city water main sprung a leak!
Last night I was driving home and found a river coursing down the street
in front of my house.I have always wanted a water front home, however, this was a break in the city water main. So I called the city, told my kids we all had to take showers (before it got shut off) and then proceeded to fill every container I could with water.
The crews are out there today. I can't get out --there's a big truck blocking my driveway. So I guess I'll hunker in and rake up the leaves from the Santa Ana Winds that hit last night!
....I'm just hoping a plague of locusts doesn't come next....
(They found the hole and put a band on it. They say it'll last longer than the old pipe installed in 1933. So much for infrastructure).
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I don't know why, but this post made me chuckle. It seems that sometimes things get so overwhelming that the only thing to do is record events. Nicely done.
Carole,
I know. It gets more and more ridiculouser here. One is torn between leaving and staying around just to see what'll happen next!
It actually sounds like the beginning a movie plot: The Day the West was Lost or something.
Eryl -Ha! I think an equally apt and more modern title would be:
"The Day The West Wandered Off."
What's the answer to this nation's infrastructure problems? We have problems with roadways and bridges in Washington State, and nobody knows how to pay to fix them.
Incidentally, the California economy is the main reason why I left the state.
Travis,
That's a good question and it'll be the basis to my post on Monday!
All problems aside, what a darling street you live on, minus the trucks and huge hole.
I miss California and then I read something like your post and. . . I don't seem to miss it all that much.
Then I read the Tucson Newspaper
Waaaaaaahahahahaaaaaa Oh Dear !
Parsnip, Ironically, on the 19th, they were going to rip up the street anyway because they're replacing the sewer lines!
honey i don't want to rain on your flood but that's the stuff sink holes are made of! yikes! careful...
hugs, bee
xoxoxoxoxoxxoxo
truly lurve (in my best yankspeak) the "L" shaped hedge there darl. and a serendiptious new years to one and all from the tree house in never never land. glenn
The "L" shaped hedge is my neighbor's. I have no idea why it's shaped like this, however, each week his gardeners from Mexico shape it like this. They must like it that way.
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