A wintery spring solstice
Today is March 21. The temperature should be warming up and vegetation turning more green.
However, today Vegas residents woke up to snow on the mountains surrounding the valley and some rain in the valley.
It was a very unusual morning heading to work along I-215 westbound to see all the mountains on the west side of town covered in a dusting of snow.
And of course, on the way I saw something not that unusual on a wet road day … one of those lovely street centered streetlamps was balanced on a Cadillac SUV after being hit and knocked off its base by a truck driven by a young driver. The pick-up driver must have taken the corner too fast, spun around, and dinged the streetlamp, sending it toppling onto the adjacent car. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And just why is it that our streetlamps are in the middle of the road? I would venture to say that every other week I see the remains of one of them in the center median after being hit by an out of control motorist. Wouldn’t it be cheaper in the long run to mount the lights on the other side of the sidewalks and free up the center of the road?
But alas, I digress.
It was a beautiful end of winter/beginning of spring morning, followed by afternoon flurries in the mountains and light rain in the valley.
