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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on May 20, 2019, 09:12:54 AM
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Yet they are always flabbergasted that Flyover Country rolls their eyes at them. Whatever happened to that HuffPo project to investigate the darkest reaches of wild America that exist outside of NYC?
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/05/20/iowahawk-unleashes-brutal-thread-over-politico-reporters-observations-from-iowa-hot-take/
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Dirt roads are not a bug, they're a feature.
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I laughed out lout at the one saying the'll prep next time by spraying everything with hobo piss...
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"...no one carries almond milk"
And in another story, they also have cows.
Brad
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"...no one carries almond milk"
And in another story, they also have cows.
Brad
Now I am become cow, the destroyer of worlds.
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Now I am become cow, the destroyer of worlds.
From the Babylon Bee:
(https://babylonbee.com/img/articles/article-4206-art5cdc153116015.jpg)
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David Burge
@iowahawkblog
Replying to @iowahawkblog
I guess being called "extremely well-informed" is a compliment, but it's sorta like being told you're very handsome by the Elephant Man
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
Replying to @iowahawkblog
I've been everywhere man
I've been everywhere man
I've been to Jersey City Elizabeth City
Brooklyn Downtown Staten Island Midtown
East Village Staten Island West Village Long Island
Brunswick Bushwick Yonkers Bronx sir
I've been everywhere
:rofl:
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D672_vcX4AAQIDV.png)
HERE THERE BE MONSTERS
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Iowa is fine but I've got to say, I did NOT like their back roads on my last trip there. I'm no stranger to dirt roads, 2-tracks, and driving on frozen lakes but the crushed gravel mix they used had my little SUV fishtailing more than anything else has in years.
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^^^^Ya gotta get to S. Dakoty before the dirt roads begin to get civilized.
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Iowa is fine but I've got to say, I did NOT like their back roads on my last trip there. I'm no stranger to dirt roads, 2-tracks, and driving on frozen lakes but the crushed gravel mix they used had my little SUV fishtailing more than anything else has in years.
Friend of mine lives in the burbs of Cedar Rapids.
Taking his Corvette out on those roads is FUN!
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(http://Observations from Iowa - it is very flat, driving is monotonous, there is more unbuilt land in one block than NYC has in an entire borough,)
LOLOLOL they are called 'sections,' not 'blocks.'
Envirowackos are almost always come from areas that are mainly islands of concrete/asphalt and when they travel its by air to another island of concrete/asphalt , and rarely have any sense of scale of what the rest of the country looks like.
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And in another story, they also have cows.
Worse than that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI
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Worse than that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI
Grinning like an idiot sitting here listening/watching it! :old:
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Yet they are always flabbergasted that Flyover Country rolls their eyes at them. Whatever happened to that HuffPo project to investigate the darkest reaches of wild America that exist outside of NYC?
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/05/20/iowahawk-unleashes-brutal-thread-over-politico-reporters-observations-from-iowa-hot-take/
Two things to terrify a liberal pantywaist:
... no one carries almond milk and caucus-goers are extremely well-informed.
Seriously: Who really cares that a NYC "journalist" couldn't find almond milk in Iowa? If it's that important to you, stay home where you can buy it. [What the bleep is "almond milk," anyway? I've never seen almonds with tits.]
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“What the bleep is "almond milk," anyway? I've never seen almonds with tits.”
There’s a great signature line!
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“What the bleep is "almond milk," anyway? I've never seen almonds with tits.”
There’s a great signature line!
You people need to get woke. You think just because someone has mammary glands, they're automatically not an almond? Wrong answer, bigot.
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Iowa is fine but I've got to say, I did NOT like their back roads on my last trip there. I'm no stranger to dirt roads, 2-tracks, and driving on frozen lakes but the crushed gravel mix they used had my little SUV fishtailing more than anything else has in years.
You just don't have enough practice, once the frost boils harden and the grader knocks down the wash boarding in the spring, I can run 60-70 mph on most gravel roads.
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Plus this is not a dirt road (Typical Iowa gravel road)
(https://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/304/2019/03/25183458/Gravel-Road.jpg)
This is a dirt road, only drive them when dry or frozen.
(https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/images/e/e7/Levelbiowa.jpg)
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My ex-wife's house in the UP was on a gravel road. Never a problem with it, though we all appreciated it when people kept the speeds down on hot dry days.
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Plus this is not a dirt road (Typical Iowa gravel road)
[img]https://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/304/2019/03/25183458/Gravel-Road.jpg
This is a dirt road, only drive them when dry or frozen.
[img]https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/images/e/e7/Levelbiowa.jpg
Yeah, NYC dimwit didn't know the difference. Probably 25% of the roads around me are gravel. Wherever they build these little 0.5-5 acre subdivisions with a dozen or so fancy houses, they seem to go in and lay asphalt, but for regular rural, a lot of the public residential roads are gravel, or what I'm finding here, mostly what they locally call road mix, which is sand through 3/4" rock. Whatever the sand is, it packs in with the rock and hardens pretty nicely. I just laid and graded my road a few days ago, and the few vehicles going in and out coupled with the last few days of rain have already made it as smooth as asphalt, and it still has good traction.
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That "graded too fast" dirt road "washboard" will rattle a vehicle to death unless you go fast enough to just hit the crests of the "waves!"
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That "graded too fast" dirt road "washboard" will rattle a vehicle to death unless you go fast enough to just hit the crests of the "waves!"
Heh. They rarely graded (or did a crappy job) the roads where I used to fish in the Sierra in CA, and it took me a couple of years to learn that. The first few times, as my teeth rattled, I slowed down. Even 5MPH can rattle your bones though. When I learned to start driving 30MPH+ and leaving a ginormous dust cloud behind me, the ride was a lot smoother. :laugh:
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Just like the Whoop-De-Doos in Motocross (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX2zdKTHtIM), just gas it!
:old:
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[What the bleep is "almond milk," anyway? I've never seen almonds with tits.]
You need to get out more, city slicker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCTIPWPNtw
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Yet they are always flabbergasted that Flyover Country rolls their eyes at them. Whatever happened to that HuffPo project to investigate the darkest reaches of wild America that exist outside of NYC?
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/05/20/iowahawk-unleashes-brutal-thread-over-politico-reporters-observations-from-iowa-hot-take/
WTF.
Loudon County, VA is one of the richest counties in the world and is covered in gravel roads lol.
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You just don't have enough practice, once the frost boils harden and the grader knocks down the wash boarding in the spring, I can run 60-70 mph on most gravel roads.
Maybe so. The dirt roads I'm used to look like this:
(https://i2.wp.com/www.stcroix360.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IMG_5605-0021.jpg?resize=670%2C401&ssl=1)
mostly sand and 40mph is usually no problem. That loose gravel was something else, anything over 25mph and I couldn't keep it straight.
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That's how I learned to "back it into a corner" and race dirt track.
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(https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/images/e/e7/Levelbiowa.jpg)
Your dirt roads have signs?! Well la de freaking da. :rofl:
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Having lived on a dirt road that was often washboarded, I found that the faster you drive the less you feel it.
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Myth Busters did an episode (or two) about this effect.
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Your dirt roads have signs?! Well la de freaking da. :rofl:
It's a warning sign for those New Yorkers. Not all mud/dirt roads have signd, fyi.
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WTF.
Loudon County, VA is one of the richest counties in the world and is covered in gravel roads lol.
That's not gravel. Those are the ground up bones of the poor who have been eaten by the nefarious rich.
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"anything over 25mph and I couldn't keep it straight."
You say that as if it were a problem or something...
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It's a warning sign for those New Yorkers. Not all mud/dirt roads have signd, fyi.
Speaking of signd, what does "Level B Service" mean?
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Speaking of signd, what does "Level B Service" mean?
In Iowa, this came about in from legislative action the 1980's because dipshits were going down mud roads and causing damage to their vehicles, in turn suing the state, county or townships.
Level A roads are roads that are regularly maintained, such as paved or gravel. Also means that snow is removed.
Level B roads receive very little maintenance, maybe a grader once or twice a year, maybe once every 5 years.
Level C roads are gated, most public is not allowed to use them. Think of abandoned ROW or roads on state land. Landowners in the area will usually have a key to the gate. Sometimes they are roads that are open seasonally. Find most of these in the rural older settled parts of the state, some go back to old cemeteries or rock quarries.
Many Level C roads are one step away from the ROW being granted back to the neighboring property owners, but kept a Level C either to reserve it for future use as a Level B or Level A road, or it does provide access to a land locked parcel on it.
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Wait till they find out there are cow farts in Iowa
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Wait till they find out there are cow farts in Iowa
Way more pig farts and lots of Roundup.
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I wonder how well she'd cope with a dirt road that also has a ford. >:D
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I wonder how well she'd cope with a dirt road that also has a ford. >:D
Delivering Amazon packages
Oh wait, for some reason my mind was thinking AOC
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I wonder how well she'd cope with a dirt road that also has a ford. >:D
Gerald R. or Henry?
Brad
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I served as an elected Trustee on our Township Board and vice chaired the Planning Commission and Zoning Board. Our township is rural, had state and federal forestland, prairies, quite a few lakes, streams and the Muskegon river. In other words, it was God's Country. We had more gravel roads and two tracks than paved roads. Slowly, over the years many if not most of the recreational properties (seasonal cabins and cottages) started to become primary dwellings for folks from the cities nearby. It was only about a 30 to 40 minute drive to two large metro areas.
So we started to have pressure from these transplants to pave the gravel roads and improve the two tracks, wanting street lighting and sidewalks. Every time a group of them would show up at our township board monthly meetings to ask about that heresy, we'd ask them why they moved here from the city. Uniformly they would always respond about the beauty of the township, the peace and quiet, and all of the outdoor things that could be accessed. Then we'd ask them why did they want to turn the township into the same thing they left behind in the city? And if they liked those sorts of amenities, they were free to move back to the city. Usually got very quiet and they'd leave the meeting.