I went to VA Union to vote. In the cold. On a dying mobility scooter. Had to drive around the entire block to find the place. Uphill on the dying scooter in the cold. Crowded as hell. I can't cope. Turned around and froze my way home. I'll have to go back later in an Uber with my walker. Hopefully, the line will be shorter later.

If you're going to make an argument, make an argument. I'm not going to play 20 questions.

Consider working up a separate post for the Saves Act and the other bill if you have the time. I'd like to know more about it and I'm sure that some of the folks who follow this sort of thing are looking for good information on how to help.

I have nothing but respect for 911 operators. A thankless job.

Do they ever get to learn the outcome of medical calls touch them or does that end up being private info?

Is that a sarcastic reference to "de-fund the police?" I don't recall any calls for legislation to reduce the police force.

You need more guys to man a fire truck than a police car. You have to have X number of people available at all times to man these vehicles. You have to have X number of vehicles available, manned, every day.

Police don't have to have X number of people available every single day.

Probably because there are up to four people in one piece of fire equipment and only one or two in a police car.

Also, the fire department gives full response to apartment and highrise calls and has to have the staff available.

"Come at me, bro."

You may not be able to compel your landlord to do anything quickly and the weather may turn before he does anything, anyway, so in the meantime:

Close your blinds (and curtains if you have them) if you're not home during the day so the place won't be hot when you get home. Keep the blinds closed on any sun-facing window if you're home, and open the shadiest window for some breeze.

If you have big enough windows for a box fan, get two and put one blowing outward in a sunny window, and another blowing inward from a shady window, preferably in another room. Reverse the fan direction when the sun shifts. You always want the intake from the shady side, and the output on the sunny side.

It really does help. I lived without a/c for years.

It takes a lot of work to solve homicides because the public won't talk to the police when they know something.

I think part of the fun of it is spotting trains unexpectedly and learning their habits, much like birdwatching. :D

"We Will Rebuild."

You could try a very direct approach. Find pictures of trains on the bridge in this sub and message the photographers to find out when they took them.

That, and trains run when there are enough things to move.

When I moved to the midwest in '07, trains passed through my neighborhood several times a day, but starting in 2009 traffic noticeably dropped off to maybe twice a day. Traffic didn't get close to normal until 2011.

You can Google commercial train schedules, but what you'll get are pages that are set up for industrial tracking and you have to have an account with the shipping company.

You could try the old photographer's trick of picking a day to sit and wait.

I've lived in Virginia most of my life and the weather here is nothing compared to Indiana's. A severe thunderstorm and tornado warning here is just a regular afternoon storm there. The thunderstorms in Indiana scared the living shit out of me. Winters there are absolutely brutal and seem to go on forever. Virginia is positively placid compared to the midwest.

I Googled "trainspotting RVA" and didn't find much. (That's what the hobby is called.) Google also told me that freight trains don't necessarily run on schedules.

You may just have to keep your ears open for trains and keep track of busy days or times of day. Freight trains run more frequently just before the winter holidays, and a few months before the seasons change. Traffic should be picking up soon with summer clothing coming in.

We rarely have terrifying natural disasters.

Ghost children.

I want to know if any of these pedestrian fatalities are connected with all of the racing I hear all over the Fan. There's quite a lot of it between Broad and Main near VCU. It sounds like cars do a circuit around Monroe Park and the neighborhood to the West.

Fix all of the sidewalks. All of them. Everywhere. Take away the Monument Districts' grandfather status and put ramps on the sidewalks through there.

You might get in touch with Senior Connections. They may have experience with this sort of thing.
https://seniorconnections-va.org/

Richmond area: (804) 343-3000

Toll Free: 1 (800) 989-2286

January is National Radon Action Month!
https://www.epa.gov/radon

Yeah, definitely. I visited by train 15 years ago and was shocked to realize people were living here and commuting to D.C.

I had to do some searching to catch up on what this is. https://therealdeal.com/2022/06/03/costar-takes-action-against-meme-account-fired-employees-allege-retribution/

If they have the lottery, that's the usual hold-up at most convenience stores.