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  1. 9 minutes ago, LA_TN said:

    This happens when the truck has to slam on the brakes to stop, causing some crete to spill out the front. That is the one big disadvantage of the front loaders used today. Seen this multiple times, especially Hermitage/KVB. Driver just drives away, no consequences unless seen by a police officer who can issue a citation 

    Yes the Hermitage / KVB intersection has probably close to a dozen separate spills!

  2. 13 minutes ago, PaulChinetti said:

    Sorry I meant there is a big ole spot of concrete on one of the interstate lanes. 

    I like the on ramp, nice and short and doesn't take a lot of space. 

    My guess is a combination of bumps in the road and quick acceleration / deceleration. This would explain why it's mostly at intersections. 

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  3. Not sure where else this would fit so mods feel free to move. Just wanted to rant.

    I am getting increasingly frustrated with the shear amount of what I assume is spilled concrete at intersections around the city. If you drive into town on Lebanon Pike to 1st Ave, every light has multiple large piles of concrete. Is there any way to hold these folks accountable? Nashville has some of the worst surface streets I’ve encountered and this along with all of the “repaired” holes that developers dig for utilities is a large contributing factor in my opinion. 

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  4. 25 minutes ago, nashvylle said:

    isn't that mismanaging dams though? In other words, if better communication was had, would the Cumberland still had flooded in the downtown and east bank area?

    No. If better communication was had, the city and hopefully it’s residents would have known sooner that they were going to be flooded. They had to release from the dams or the dams were going to overtop. Overtopping dams fail. The choice was between letting a lot of water out or a high risk of ALL the water.

    There was a long report on this from the Army Corps and NWS. Generally when I reference it, folks just say it was a cover up because they just don’t want to believe that 20 inches of rain can cause catastrophic flooding of their city. 

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  5. While i disagree with the premise that Obama actively divided the nation, for the sake of argument let’s assume it’s true. What I’m concerned about is not Trump further dividing the nation. I’m worried about him literally destroying democracy in America. That is a lot more worrisome than political division.

    As i already stated above, he floated the idea of postponing the election coincidentally when he’s well down in the polls. The day after proposing to postpone the election, his administration condemned China for postponing Hong Kong’s elections! He rails against mail in voting with zero evidence of real widespread issues, oh but not for Florida where’s he’s decided to make an exception. On the topic of elections, he still claims there were 3 million (the number he lost by) illegal votes in 2016 again with zero evidence. Does all that not worry you at a much more existential level than “division?”

    im not going to go too far into this Alzheimer theory other than to say if Biden is mentally unfit than Trump is only more so. I’d love to see trump ride a bike. 

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  6. 8 minutes ago, LA_TN said:

    OK, well, I was trying to ignore, but

    1) show me where I said that I "personally disagree with what RJ posted"

    2) (from earlier post) please show me where I stated "you admit in your reply that you disagree with the politics of the one single post"

    No sir, my point was to put a stop to the political debate that should be in the coffee house. And now you are on a rant because of it

    Please focus on the topic of this thread and take the politics to the coffee house!

    “Personally, I maintain we would be where we are today, regardless of who was in leadership - local or national - because of, well, the people”

    this is literally the same argument as smeags, and RJ i think is trying to argue against that. You don’t like him arguing against that because it’s your belief as well.p so you delete it. 

     

    Edit: didn’t mean to post so quickly.

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  7. 18 minutes ago, JoeyX said:

     

    Folks if this ain't a political attack........

    Will the moderators allow it? We'll see if he/they have the ability to separate from the emotion he/they have from his/their side in the political spectrum. We'll see if there is competence.

     

     

     

    If you go look at smeags original  post, he talks about both sides being to blame. That’s allowed because it appears neutral, but when you have someone like Trump in office literally proposing to delay the election, a “both sides” argument is an argument equal to “trump ain’t that bad.” I don’t want to speak for RJ if for no other reason than they are way more eloquently spoken than I am, but I assume this is what they have a problem with. 

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  8. 8 hours ago, titanhog said:

    I've seen more than one conservative driven off this board by moderators in the past...so don't take it so personally.  I've been on this board for over 15 years and it has turned very leftist in the last 3-4 years.  So...don't think for a second that conservatives on here feel like we're "protected". 

    I’d say it’s probably turned “leftist” in the past few years because everyone is worried about the authoritarian wanna be dictator in the WH. Get back to two sane parties that disagree on how to run government instead of one party turning a blind eye to probably the most ignorant corrupt president in history. Then maybe things will calm down outside of normal politics spheres as well. 

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  9. 21 minutes ago, Nash_12South said:

    I’m guessing I’m not getting the root of my issue explained. I have no problem with the protests. It’s the city saying it’s ok, while basically excluding other groups over 25.
    Cynically, I think if this was a law observing Arsonists of America rally, the 25 person rule just might be used. I understand all the reasons for how theses current  marches are acceptable, virus or no. 

    From a public heath standpoint, having a peaceful outdoor protest is much preferred vs arresting hundreds or thousands and shoving them in a jail together. 

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  10. 1 hour ago, DDIG said:

    Yet there is another protest planned for Saturday that the Mayor says will go on as planned. I get mask wearing has been good at these events, but masks are not invincible - there is no social distancing. It is disingenuous for them to say they don't think the virus is spreading there, they simply do not really know - while a positive case maybe didn't attend a dense protest it certainly could have from someone who did and spread it in the home, workplace, etc. and on top of that we certainly are only capturing a sample of all of our positives.

    I'm all for the right to expression but it is getting slightly absurd to see continued very large dense gatherings and be told it is perfectly fine during this increasing health crisis while everything else is reverting backwards to shutdown.

    I think they said today that 3 people that have tested positive participated in protests so far. They haven't linked spread back to them at all. Being outside is a huge limiter of transmission. This is why they are keeping dog parks / playgrounds / pools open in this new phase. They haven't tracked any large spread back to these activities either.  Combine that with a decent number of protesters wearing masks and it's a very low risk event. 

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  11. 19 hours ago, DDIG said:

    I'm not anti-protest, but you are short selling the other side. Yes the Broadway bars are the loudest, but it goes much deeper than that. Stifling businesses reduces  jobs to all people of all colors, reduces tax revenue that funds schools and social programs, impacts mental health of the larger community, etc. 

    Anyway - here's what I'm buying folks. New positive cases today are not equal to new positive cases weeks or a month ago. The hospitalization numbers are backing that up.

    A month ago, the only people getting tests were people sick, seeking it out, or people in the hospital with symptoms or other conditions. Most every testing positive was symptomatic resulting in more cases that will potentially escalate.

    Now we chase. We test manufacturing facilities, prisons, nursing homes, every person getting a procedure that had been delayed, etc. That results in finding more cases, but we know for a fact a large percentage of people go asymptomatic, so with those larger numbers comes new cases that are significantly less sick as a percentage than previous new case loads.

     

    Hospitalization is a lagging indicator. You don’t get sick one day, go get tested the next, and on the 3rd day go to the hospital. I think it does make sense for somewhat reduced hospitizations as those going out are more likely to be younger and healthier since the disease is now well known whereas at the beginning at risk individuals were out and about just as much.

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