THE DANGER HERE IS SELF-EXPLANATORY.
(Thanks to Tina Silva Blease for providing this chart.)
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On Harrison Ford, Small Airports, and Housing
The Harrison Ford plane crash on Penmar Golf Course in Venice, CA, has spotlighted again the dangers of living close to a small airport. We have the same situation here, in my hometown of San Jose, CA. People are upset by the nearness of the municipal airport to their homes.
This baffles me. In our case, the small-aircraft airport was built, then housing built up around it later. In the case of Penmore, it appears that the airport and some homes were being built at the same time and others built later around it. My question is, Why build homes in an unsafe area? Or, in the case of people having homes where an airport is proposed, why not fight it harder (Venice is NOT a poor area).
Fast forward to today from 1962, when Penmore was built, or from 1937, when our Reid-Hillview Airport had its ground-breaking. Houses have changed hands many times. Why did people buy them, choosing to live so close to what they’re now calling a big danger? Even if air traffic for light planes has increased over the years, a reasonable person whould have foreseen that.
I don’t mean to minimize people’s fear for their families’ safety in their own homes, although damage and injury from planes in such an area is quite rare. But I do expect people to think before they act and, once they’ve made the decision, to respect the rights of others who use or work at the airport. In other words, they should live with their decision or move.
Computers, Sleep Mode, On/Off–Dangers
The debate continues–“off or on?” Consider this: by turning off your computer at night you’ll use about 75% fewer kilowatts. This makes a big difference in an office, where computers use more electricity than all other equipment put together, but it also helps at home.
“I just use sleep mode,” say some people. “It costs me only about $50 a year more than turning off the computer, and computers don’t like to be turned off and on too often.”
Wrong. Watch this short video Why You Should Never Leave Your Computer On to see what sleep mode and on/offs mean to your computer. You can help the Earth AND avoid expenses at the same time!
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Stupid Woman of the Season Award
Today I saw the best candidate for Stupid Woman of the Season, if such an award exists. She pulled her car into a handicap spot (no handicap licence or placard, of course), jumped out, and ran into Walgreens to shop. Soon there was an announcement over the Walgreens speaker: The person parked in the handicap space should return to their car. You left the motor running and your child inside the car. A group of us stared as a woman ran from the store to the car and drove away. Before she pulled away, though, a man confronted her outside the store. Her response was what I hear all the time from less dangerous people, those who just park illegally in a handicap spot without putting a child’s life in peril–“I was just going to be a minute.”