"Hermann" (hermann)
11/11/2013 at 06:00 • Filed to: None
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"Hermann" (hermann)
11/11/2013 at 06:00 • Filed to: None | 1
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Mercedes AMG is here for you! To both cheer you up with great eargasm that'll leave your legs shaking like a green bamboo and to make you sad because it's the last of their F1 NA V8s.
BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> Hermann
11/11/2013 at 06:10 |
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Thanks I needed that. My half commute this morning was more shitthan I'm used to having on a full week.
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Hermann
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
11/11/2013 at 06:20 |
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I know that feel, bro!
São Paulo just put some bus lanes where I live, turning a 4-lane avenue into a 3-lane one where 1 is bus exclusive. Now all the cars which used to just flow there need to pack in 2 lanes. My commute is now 10 minutes longer! 10 minutes I could spend hitting the snooze button!
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BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> Hermann
11/11/2013 at 06:56 |
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Yep, pretty much that for me as well. Except during spring. I probably don't have to tell you how much rain we get in spring, it's pretty common sense, but, somehow, common sense has escaped the powers that be once again. With the major streets and avenues blocked off for World Cup "improvements", how did they not realize the minor streets and avenues would flood and the city would stop?
Because that's what happened this morning. I left home around 7 am under some pretty heavy rain, which only got heavier and heavier until the streets started flooding, and everybody started escaping into the Ipiranga Avenue, which got completely bottlenecked in turn. Then, the river that runs between the two ways of traffic and serves as a sort of flood control drain started overboarding and people started panicking. At one point, I was practically certain I was gonna lose my car to the waters, but fortunately, the water gave in just about enough for me to take a u-turn into the opposite lanes, which, fortunately, sit higher than those going to the campus. Took me nearly two hours to go halfway to college and back home, all thanks to some pretty neat city planning.
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Hermann
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
11/11/2013 at 07:23 |
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Whoa! That's bad. Didn't know things were all that bad. Glad to know you car's still untouched, though.
"Improvements" are being made everywhere for the cup, ruining our life for a Decade to make things pretty for about a month next year. Yay.
So, no class today? Ahahahah.
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BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> Hermann
11/11/2013 at 07:33 |
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Nope, no class today :)
I got out of there right on time too, as the avenue's lowest point is just before the campus. The U turn I took was just a block away from a backstreet I use to get home that not many people drive through, so once I was off the Ipiranga, it went pretty smooth.
The rain has kind of calmed by now and traffic seems to be going pretty smooth, but more rain is expected for tonight and the last thing I want is to be stuck in traffic next to a flooding river in the dark (because power is going down anytime soon. It always does)