Blog Entries For February 2005

Still sick. Think I will be sick forever. But me and the winter are cool again, cause of the snowing. This is Market Street, the main road through the middle of Philadelphia, in Center City. Notice how there are no cars, and we are walking down the middle of the road. Traffic lights don't matter, and the only car that we saw was a taxi, that passed us while driving in the oncoming lane, since it was a little better packed down anyway.

This is I-78, usually gridlocked at this time. Notice the lack of cars, and us in the middle of the road. One cop went by, and didn't care. All in all, the city got to be kinda like Grand Theft Auto - no road rules, traffic lights don't matter, cops don't care, there are random empty emergency vehicles with lights on parked everywhere, and we climbed over the fences to cut through City Hall - no one cares.

Check out the mini-plow. Its the width of the sidewalk, and has a giant spinning brush to clear the snow. The first time I saw one, I was stuck between snow banks with one coming at me, and had to run. Cities are cool.