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Re: [OM] OT: Hurricane Harvey

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Hurricane Harvey
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:05:58 -0300
I'd be hard pressed to think that a Pontiac Sunfire or a Hummer H1 could move along the freeway in their intended MO. Taking a sailboat is the most intelligent option in the circumstances. Any judge with an IQ of 100+ would surely toss out a police citation for a transit violation when an opportunity for travel by forward motion surface movement is a sailboat! An alternative citation could be if the miscreant was operating a jet boat travelling at 65mph !

On 2017-08-25 7:05 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
      Probably the closest they could get to a formal charge.  I doubt that any 
state has a statute that addresses the operation of a watercraft along a public 
right-of-way.  Operating a sailboat on a freway isn't exactly transiting in an 
appropriate manner.


Arrested for trespassing? Isn't Katy Freeway a public right of way with
the right of transit in the appropriate manner? The Texas Ranger was
surely guilty of entrapment :-)

       I was living in Houston in 1992 (year?) when a strong squall
line passed through, only it didn't pass through as a line.  It sliced
through, dropping inches of rain in a short period of time.  I still
have a copy of the Houston Chronicle showing people being rescued with
an extension ladder from the top of a bus.

       The rain was so intense that the Katy Freeway was about eight
feet deep for most of its length.  Deputies were using airboats to
rescue people who were standing on top of their cars.  In the middle
of this was a fellow with a sailboat.  He was the first person to sail
the length of the Katy Freeway, and was arrested for trespassing at
the end.  When a deputy was asked why they didn't arrest him earlier
he said "We wanted to let him complete it."

       Yep, that's Texas.  :{)



Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
      - Hunter S. Thompson


-----Original Message-----
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Aug 25, 2017 1:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Hurricane Harvey

Wow!  Now the forecasters are predicting as much as 35 inches of rain
in the vicinity of Houston.  I simply cannot imagine that amount of
rainfall.


There will be a tremendous amount of flooding in the area from that
amount of rain. At least that is what my career as a State Farm Insurance
agent in the Houston area tells me. Bill Barber


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
       - Hunter S. Thompson


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