I had noticed that in the past but Ohio State Troopers seem to be more enthusiastic lately....the one that chased me down last Friday certainly was. Today north of Columbus on 71 they were thick and active but that may be an anomaly more due to an awareness Baruth is commuting most days.
I've never seen more cops in Ohio or Michigan than yesterday driving down to Cleveland to enjoy the eclipse with my son, daughter in law and grandkids. I didn't see anyone speeding excessively or anyone pulled over but there were speed traps by state police, county, and local police in every middlesex village.
The eclipse was indeed cosmically spectacular. The corona was very cool and we saw what we think was a solar flare. People say that it gets dark like an overcast day or evenng, but I've experienced some solar eclipses before (not total, though) and the lighting is unlike those things. Very weird and unique.
I think the most impressive thing was how intense the light got with the slimmest glimmer of sunlight as totality ended.
I think the whole event was great from a human standpoint. On my way to my DIL's friend's house where I was meeting them, for the start of the eclipse I pulled off the interstate and into a Target parking lot. There were people all over the lot waiting for the eclipse, including a group wearing foil hats. When the eclipse started, some folks exclaimed. As I got to Cleveland, all over town families and friends were sitting in lawn chairs. I brought a bunch of eclipse glasses that I got from the company where I buy 3D glasses but I also showed my grandsons how to use a cardboard box with a pinhole to see the eclipse.
The moon's circumference and it's distance from the earth and sun make for a perfect total eclipse, with just the corona showing. It's as though God decided to entertain humanity with His own light show.
Interestingly, the two words for tell/proclaim, M'saprim and Magid, both relate to stories. The verb l'sapir means to tell a story, l'hagid is to tell over a story. The guide to the Passover seder is the Haggadah. The Magid of Mezeritch was a Chassidic rebbe famed for his parables and stories. Storytelling is an important part of Chassidism to this day.
When people ask if I'm a journalist I tell them, "No, my name is Schreiber. It means writer. I tell stories."
Does that translate to “writer” in Hebrew or Yiddish in any way, or just German?
As to the cops, I’d say they were just keeping everyone honest.
All of the counties around and to the east and south of Toledo were basically telling their citizens to prepare as if a major weather event was about to take place, including stocking up early on groceries, filling the gas tank, and staying off the roads if you could on eclipse day, and watch from home, and I heeded that advice.
What I found interesting was that the southbound traffic was light to moderate coming down from Detroit on I-75, and I assumed that any red traces on Google Maps were due to the construction zone around Monroe. But US-23 all the way from Ann Arbor to the Ohio border was a parking lot, and the construction zone between Airport Highway and the Maumee River didn’t help things. (Is there construction anywhere on 23 between Ohio and Ann Arbor/M-14?)
The bad traffic jams occurred after the eclipse, just as happened in Kentucky seven years ago—both I-75 and US-23 were bumper-to-bumper within 15 minutes of the end of totality, and eventually, the drive on I-75 from Findlay, OH to the Michigan line, a 50-ish minute drive under normal conditions, exceeded 2 hours-plus! And I can only imagine US-23 was the same all the way to I-94.
Speaking of I-94, is whatever the latest resurfacing job MDOT did still holding up after several years? I’d think by now, there’s potholes big enough to swallow a smart car whole! That said, I love driving any Detroit freeway! Cut-and-thrust, actual lane discipline! The high speed keeps your attention! And of course you get to see some of the worst of autodom, like a 2002 Cavalier with blown rear shocks bouncing down the right lane as you go strafing by on the left!
It's Yiddish, which is essentially old German with some Hebrew. Writer in Hebrew would be either kotev, sofer, or m'chaber. The verb to write is lichtov. Sofer is the same word used for ritual scribes, the word for book is sefer. M'chaber literally means something like compiler, from chaburah, a group, from chaver, friend, associate or member.
"That said, I love driving any Detroit freeway! Cut-and-thrust, actual lane discipline! "
It depends on how you define lane discipline. On Wednesday I drove down to Canfield & Cass to pick up some fuzz pedal kits that are on pre-order at the Third Man website but are already in stock at Jack White's store in Detroit. There was a lady ahead of me on the Lodge that had to have learned how to drive in Detroit.
The #1 rule on Detroit freeways is "go for the open lane". Very often the right lane is faster.
Eventually she misread traffic and got boxed in as I passed on the left.
It's how I watched my first solar eclipse back in the '60s when you needed something like welding goggles or layers of exposed x-ray film to observe an eclipse directly. The kids at the watch party, aged 5-11, were all fascinated by it.
This really is a thing in Southern California, in the 1970's I'd get stopped for almost anything, these days I see so many equipment defects/violations it makes my head spin .
I see a lot of vehicles driving with their lights out at night. I attribute that to all the LED running lights and the fact that modern dashboards light up even if the headlights aren't on.
Yes ! this is such a simple thing to fix ~ the dash lights should be powered by the same circuit as the headlights .
Remember : back in the day the passenger side taillight fuse powered the dash lamps so you'd know if they went out .
In a similar vein, in the 1970's the newly mandated hazard lamps stopped working if you stepped on the brakes *except* in police/taxi builds . incredibly stupid basic moronic bean counting design .
Yesterday I was driving in South Central L.A.after dark and a car turned into the street heading my way sans lights ~ I flashed my headlights at him and he flashed back then shut his lights off again just before he passed me .
This morning my 16Y.O. foster boy was crossing the street at a four way stop controlled intersection and a woman (she was NO lady) buzzed past the stop sign going 40 + MPH and never looked left, right nor at the cross walk .
This makes me want to sit out side with a pile of rocks......
There’s some makes that basically leave the lights in AUTO mode, with an option to flip into a momentary OFF detent for the remainder of the ignition cycle, and the park and ON positions are on the bottom of the switch.
I always wondered why the flashers went solid when hitting the brakes. Perhaps it was because most vehicles didn’t have separate amber signals in the back—it would have required another circuit, and you surmised that it was a cost they didn’t want to incur.
I'm not surmising I know this having been a fleet mechanic who worked on identical vehicles that were configured differently, yes, it's the separate turn & brake lamps, t's a simple and cheap thing to make an '6 wire' turn signal switch that handles this problem easily .
I had noticed that in the past but Ohio State Troopers seem to be more enthusiastic lately....the one that chased me down last Friday certainly was. Today north of Columbus on 71 they were thick and active but that may be an anomaly more due to an awareness Baruth is commuting most days.
Ha ha. They’ve got their eyes peeled for that 300.
I've never seen more cops in Ohio or Michigan than yesterday driving down to Cleveland to enjoy the eclipse with my son, daughter in law and grandkids. I didn't see anyone speeding excessively or anyone pulled over but there were speed traps by state police, county, and local police in every middlesex village.
The eclipse was indeed cosmically spectacular. The corona was very cool and we saw what we think was a solar flare. People say that it gets dark like an overcast day or evenng, but I've experienced some solar eclipses before (not total, though) and the lighting is unlike those things. Very weird and unique.
I think the most impressive thing was how intense the light got with the slimmest glimmer of sunlight as totality ended.
I think the whole event was great from a human standpoint. On my way to my DIL's friend's house where I was meeting them, for the start of the eclipse I pulled off the interstate and into a Target parking lot. There were people all over the lot waiting for the eclipse, including a group wearing foil hats. When the eclipse started, some folks exclaimed. As I got to Cleveland, all over town families and friends were sitting in lawn chairs. I brought a bunch of eclipse glasses that I got from the company where I buy 3D glasses but I also showed my grandsons how to use a cardboard box with a pinhole to see the eclipse.
The moon's circumference and it's distance from the earth and sun make for a perfect total eclipse, with just the corona showing. It's as though God decided to entertain humanity with His own light show.
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork."
הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם מְֽסַפְּרִ֥ים כְּבֽוֹד־אֵ֑ל וּֽמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָ֝דָ֗יו מַגִּ֥יד הָרָקִֽיעַ׃
I'd translate it as
The heavens tell of the glory of God,
and the work of His hands the sky proclaims.
Interestingly, the two words for tell/proclaim, M'saprim and Magid, both relate to stories. The verb l'sapir means to tell a story, l'hagid is to tell over a story. The guide to the Passover seder is the Haggadah. The Magid of Mezeritch was a Chassidic rebbe famed for his parables and stories. Storytelling is an important part of Chassidism to this day.
When people ask if I'm a journalist I tell them, "No, my name is Schreiber. It means writer. I tell stories."
Does that translate to “writer” in Hebrew or Yiddish in any way, or just German?
As to the cops, I’d say they were just keeping everyone honest.
All of the counties around and to the east and south of Toledo were basically telling their citizens to prepare as if a major weather event was about to take place, including stocking up early on groceries, filling the gas tank, and staying off the roads if you could on eclipse day, and watch from home, and I heeded that advice.
What I found interesting was that the southbound traffic was light to moderate coming down from Detroit on I-75, and I assumed that any red traces on Google Maps were due to the construction zone around Monroe. But US-23 all the way from Ann Arbor to the Ohio border was a parking lot, and the construction zone between Airport Highway and the Maumee River didn’t help things. (Is there construction anywhere on 23 between Ohio and Ann Arbor/M-14?)
The bad traffic jams occurred after the eclipse, just as happened in Kentucky seven years ago—both I-75 and US-23 were bumper-to-bumper within 15 minutes of the end of totality, and eventually, the drive on I-75 from Findlay, OH to the Michigan line, a 50-ish minute drive under normal conditions, exceeded 2 hours-plus! And I can only imagine US-23 was the same all the way to I-94.
Speaking of I-94, is whatever the latest resurfacing job MDOT did still holding up after several years? I’d think by now, there’s potholes big enough to swallow a smart car whole! That said, I love driving any Detroit freeway! Cut-and-thrust, actual lane discipline! The high speed keeps your attention! And of course you get to see some of the worst of autodom, like a 2002 Cavalier with blown rear shocks bouncing down the right lane as you go strafing by on the left!
It's Yiddish, which is essentially old German with some Hebrew. Writer in Hebrew would be either kotev, sofer, or m'chaber. The verb to write is lichtov. Sofer is the same word used for ritual scribes, the word for book is sefer. M'chaber literally means something like compiler, from chaburah, a group, from chaver, friend, associate or member.
"That said, I love driving any Detroit freeway! Cut-and-thrust, actual lane discipline! "
It depends on how you define lane discipline. On Wednesday I drove down to Canfield & Cass to pick up some fuzz pedal kits that are on pre-order at the Third Man website but are already in stock at Jack White's store in Detroit. There was a lady ahead of me on the Lodge that had to have learned how to drive in Detroit.
The #1 rule on Detroit freeways is "go for the open lane". Very often the right lane is faster.
Eventually she misread traffic and got boxed in as I passed on the left.
It was truly spectacular!
Hell, climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge is on my bucket list, and there’s a total solar eclipse going through there in 2018.
I’m trying to see if there’s tours forming!
You're the first person I've heard mentioning using a pinhole camera, it was common long ago .
-Nate
It's how I watched my first solar eclipse back in the '60s when you needed something like welding goggles or layers of exposed x-ray film to observe an eclipse directly. The kids at the watch party, aged 5-11, were all fascinated by it.
Ditto .
I'm amazed at all the changes since then .
-Nate
This really is a thing in Southern California, in the 1970's I'd get stopped for almost anything, these days I see so many equipment defects/violations it makes my head spin .
I miss The Hill Street Blues .
-Nate
I see a lot of vehicles driving with their lights out at night. I attribute that to all the LED running lights and the fact that modern dashboards light up even if the headlights aren't on.
Yes ! this is such a simple thing to fix ~ the dash lights should be powered by the same circuit as the headlights .
Remember : back in the day the passenger side taillight fuse powered the dash lamps so you'd know if they went out .
In a similar vein, in the 1970's the newly mandated hazard lamps stopped working if you stepped on the brakes *except* in police/taxi builds . incredibly stupid basic moronic bean counting design .
Yesterday I was driving in South Central L.A.after dark and a car turned into the street heading my way sans lights ~ I flashed my headlights at him and he flashed back then shut his lights off again just before he passed me .
This morning my 16Y.O. foster boy was crossing the street at a four way stop controlled intersection and a woman (she was NO lady) buzzed past the stop sign going 40 + MPH and never looked left, right nor at the cross walk .
This makes me want to sit out side with a pile of rocks......
-Nate
There’s some makes that basically leave the lights in AUTO mode, with an option to flip into a momentary OFF detent for the remainder of the ignition cycle, and the park and ON positions are on the bottom of the switch.
I always wondered why the flashers went solid when hitting the brakes. Perhaps it was because most vehicles didn’t have separate amber signals in the back—it would have required another circuit, and you surmised that it was a cost they didn’t want to incur.
If I'm not careful how and when I switch between auto and manual headlights, my Honda will leave the fog lights on after I park and drain the battery.
Are they factory units? They should shut off with the headlights. If not, wire them through the headlight circuit.
@Sgeefe :
I'm not surmising I know this having been a fleet mechanic who worked on identical vehicles that were configured differently, yes, it's the separate turn & brake lamps, t's a simple and cheap thing to make an '6 wire' turn signal switch that handles this problem easily .
-Nate