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A decent article on the after effects of the Alliston case (and any other time cycling is in the news:

https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/punishment/amp/

8 people!!! I bet the Sunday papers will still be full of, BUT CYCLISTS!

If the standard are reading this, you can quote me.

Pretty much all of the Texas Gulf coast is built like that. There are some really great houses but all up on stilts. Most of them will have pre-set hole around the windows to make it easier to attach sheets of plywood. You're also meant to keep some windows open behind the plywood to equalise the pressure. Otherwise houses can blow their own roofs off due to the sudden swings in air pressure.

But you can't ban a drunken lorry driver from driving a lorry. It's his LIVELIHOOD!

What's so great about this flood, hurricane and storm riddled place that people still live there!?

The Freedom. It's the best Freedom, the biggest Freedom.

That is a disgrace, no admission until the last minute - unreal.

COULD SOME TECH SAVVY MEMBER RECONSTRUCT ONE OF THESE STORIES AND REVERSE THE CYCLIST / DRIVER PARTS - I THINK IT WOULD MAKE INTERESTING READING. (i'm not tech savvy - obvious)

In fairness the hurricanes are not that frequent. But lots of flooding from just regular rain storms. And hot. Really hot. And humid. My ancestors were clearly steeped in HTFU to do hot and humid without air conditioning and wearing wool clothes.

Lots of good sailing, fishing and like 11 billion golf courses. (Fuck golf). Good jobs. Warm. Beaches. Mexican food. Cajun food. Lots of open spaces. Cheap land so housing is pretty cheap. Good music. Cold beer. Great people.

that's not how I remember Lowestoft.

Stop trying to win internet argument points and actually read what people write.

Well quite

I lost track of what your point was a long time ago despite reading everything back again.

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I hadn't seen that case before, that is absolutely disgraceful. How can someone whose inattention killed someone, and who then left the scene and pretended to have nothing to do with it, walk free from a courtroom despite being found guilty.

I disagree about the reporting though. It does sound like the not wearing a helmet was pertinent to the fact that he sustained head injuries. Whatever you think about people wearing or not wearing them, they can be useful if your head hits the ground.

Fair enough. That makes it sound pretty good. Whenever I've seen pictures of the Gulf before it seems to be with grey skies that suggest some terrible storm is coming, and I just picture rain, alligators and mosquitos.

COME AT ME HURRICANE. YOU AINT GOT SHIT ON 'MERICA...o

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Also, looks like @BRM moved to Texas and taken up arms?

It's already made landfall and dropped to a Cat 1. The problem now is the rain which always drops heaviest in the North East quadrant of the storm. Houston has had 16" of rain (400mm) so far and there will be 4 more days of that before the storm dissipates. I've seen reports of 24" of rain in some places (600mm). I've seen tropical storms drop 26" of rain in a 24 hour period.

Friends/acquaintences who evacuated from Galveston will probably need 4 months worth of rennovations to fix the water damage to their homes. The same will be true for people living near rivers or bayous and other lowlying areas. Houston is only 150ft above sea level and that's 60 miles inland from Galveston. Drainage is not a strong feature of the coastal plain.

I expect for this storm you'll see $2-$4 Billion in overall damages.

Half the Internet looks like @BRM it seems. He is our everyman.

It's devastating I'm sure. Sorry for my calous comments. It's just so hard not to poke fun at America these days.

i am now slightly more worried about riding through texas!

Hurricane Season ends in October.

My point was that it would be wise to educate people that looking down at their phone can lead to them not having a clear idea of their surroundings would be more beneficial in preventing incidents like this than imposing tougher laws on cyclists.

Maybe re-read this post and point out where your confusion came from so that I can make myself more clear in future?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/139552/?offset=47725#comment13815687

sky's resident idiot adam boulting has namechecked us today

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/at-last-the-wheels-are-coming-off-our-senseless-worship-of-bicycles-stvzcxb7s

Nope. Not considered callous. Just late. Landfall was yesterday fam.

In fairness some people probably prepared like that, but with moar Bible.

Tornado season starts in March, do it...

https://youtu.be/QhM3akdq6q0

Aside from a general superiority complex, does anyone else think people are anti-cyclist because subconciously we seem kind of insecty? Lycra and plastic helmets could be seen as buggy materials, the clicky nature of a bike itself, derailleur moving etc. reminiscent of a scuttling beetle, a pest that needs exterminating... The use of language in newspapers similar to descriptions of locusts, using the words "hordes" of cyclists, "swarmed", etc.

Or maybe it's the "ist" in cyclist, suggesting a fanatical, obsessive cult of transportation. Perhaps we should start calling everyone cyclers and drivists. (Although "motorist" doesn't seem to have the same connotation).