Chatty Charley thread for the week of March 3rd 2008

I vote "A".

I thought it was I-10.

According to sources. Lowly I-10 (lowest latitude) is only 2460 miles in length

May be I-74 was one of those interstates that was unfinished? There is one here in the Cleveland area. since your from the area you might know it.

I-90 uses the inter-belt and then shares Rt 2 through Cleveland spurs off the I-271 split and splits again to I-90 it's self.

Going east bound
It's plans were to not exit on the west side onto I-71 (near Clark & west 25th )but to continue on to I-490 that now ends at 55th street, however it would have gone through Cleveland, East Cleveland and the Suburbs to connect up at the split at I-271 and I-90 now in Willoughby Hills.

The interstate system is not completed, and chances are will never be with the changing typographic of the United States. Hands down the Interstate and beltway system is the finest Highway system in the world.

Bob

The Myths of the Interstate System

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/interstatemyths.htm#quest...

I-90, 3, 020.54 miles, from Seattle, Washington, to Boston, Massachusetts

I-80, 2, 899.54 miles, from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey

I-40, 2, 555.40 miles, from Barstow, California, to Wilmington, North Carolina

I-10, 2, 460.34 miles, from Los Angeles, California to Jacksonville, Florida,

I-70, 2, 153.13 miles, from Cove Fort, Utah, to Baltimore, Maryland.

I vote A.

I don't believe it really saves anything. It's nice having more daylight in the evening, but that has to do with working hours. Many businesses have seasonal hours anyway (of those who aren't open round-the-clock), and if they simply shifted them earlier in the summer, it would accomplish the same effect without playing games with clocks. Having the government behind it just makes it inflexible and less useful in all but the hypothetical cases tossed around by the bill authors.

I'm also not a fan of sending kids to school in the dark.

The Trans-Canada Highway is approximately 7,821 Km long. It’s the world's longest national highway.

That equals 4,870 miles - coast to coast.

Ok ok, it makes much more sense to me now. I have stopped at truck stops before on trips and started to talk to the guy/gal next to me at the bar.

There must be something about me that makes people want to tell me the darndest things. I've heard about medical procedures, ex spouses from both genders, and things I simply didn't care to know about from complete strangers that make me wish my minds' eye was blind because of the mental pictures I've been given...must be some sort of curse.

Noone believes it, but I am very shy when I am around ppl that I don't know every well or uncomfortable. My coworkers always say ,"Yeah, right". But one of the saw it first hand when we went to Nashville and had to stay over the weekend. Some couple started to talk with us and my coworker leaned over and said, "you aren't comfortable, are you". She finally saw my shy side. They actually wanted us to go fresbie (sp) golfing (which we never had heard of that before until then). We declined.

getting ready to ride to Big bend on my Goldwing
leaving easter.
anyone got some POI i should not miss?

Wow! Here in Houston I paid $3.59 for diesel today which is $.30 cents higher than premium. Go figure that!!

I though the inerstate system was laid out to have all east/west interstates to be designated in even numbers of ten, i.e. I-10, I-90, I-40, etc. and all north/south interstates designated with odd numbers with a 5, i.e. I-35, I-45, etc. Where did I-74, I-71, I-271 come from? I know city loops and bypasses have numbers that stray from this concept. Maybe if they are NW/SE and NE/SW they are different???

I vote E

Thanks.. we've got a snowstorm coming our way today. Expected accumulation is about 15 inches. What did you say about spring? lol

Current tally on the Daylight Saving Time poll (by rough count) is:

A - 7 votes (Kill it)
C - 3 votes (Keep the current setup)
E - 6 votes (Switch to DST all together...

(Hey, this IS the WINDMILL thread, correct?)

I don't like changing my clocks and watch, one way or the other. Maybe some day they will all know how to change themselves, like my computer. So I choose either A or E. I do like light in the evenings, so my personal preference would be E. But I feel sorry for kids going to school in darkness. Some even still walk to school. So my vote is for A.

Looks like you had some nasty, nasty weather there a couple hours ago !
75 miles south we just got a some T'boomers , some hail and a couple gully washers !

We got a truckload of rain, therre is flood warnings till after 4 on sat, soooooo depressing, cant get out of the house, arghhhhhhhh.

I'm looking for an overnight low of 6 below zero.

And to see what it's like in my backyard anytime:
http://www.weatherlink.com/user/kch50428/

I use to live in Mason City and i know what your going thru, we run snowmobiles on the lake, but now you see where i am at.

Nope. No longer even numbers of ten and odd numbers of five. East-west uses any even number of two digits or less, and north-south uses any odd number of two digits or less. So I-8 and I-94 runs east-west, and I-17 and I-37 runs north-south.

There's a system to the spurs and loops, too. Three digit starting with odd numbers are spurs into the city, so I-182 is the western-most spur along I-82. Even numbers are loops, so there's I-610 in Houston and I-410 in San Antonio. I-410 is more west of I-610, and both are loops off I-10.

But the system seems to be break down as more roads are added. I see I-470 looping both Topeka and Kansas city, and I-135 spurring all the way to I-70.

I vote E.