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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Weather and parking tickets

Posted on 7:01 AM by Unknown
Columbus had 0.94 inches or rain last night, more then I had expected.  Could have been 10 inches of snow.  Rain is so much easier to deal with.  I know Milo is so happy spring is finally here!  I have not told him what is coming tonight with up to 4 inches of snow (I actually think it will be closer to 6 inches!) .  PLUS - after about 4pm today we will have falling temperatures for 36 straight hours!  THIRTY SIX STRAIGHT HOURS!!!
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I have friends all over the world and last month I took a before and after blizzard photo of my house and one guy in Columbia said "I wish I could just touch the snow sometime".

A friend that lives in Australia on the Sunshine Coast asked me to look at one of his photos.  I thought it was awesome and asked if I could tweak it just a little and he agreed.  

Here is the after and before photos.   . . . . actually I guess not but you get the idea - ALMOST the same photo!  I added a hint of color, made the rainbow lorikeet a little crisper while making all else a little blurrier to give it a 3D look.

Photo by Simon Green - processed by Rod Melotte

photo by Simon Green

Not sure how many of you Columbus people have looked at the budget but it's actually lower then the past few years.  Did you know there are 26 miles of roads that Columbus is responsible for?  If we redid all of those roads it would only cost us 31.2 million dollars.  SWEET!!

And people complain about West James  HWY 16/60 and how bad it is.  Well ladies and germs - not a Columbus problem. We don't own that road, can't fix it if we wanted too.  What we own are where the cars park, not the road.  That is a State Highway and is suppose to be redone in . . 2016??  Same with that area by the Hospital. State road but that WILL be fixed soon.

And the whole argument saying the Columbus Police force is 1/3 of the towns budget is wrong.  29.9% actually and NOT out of line with a typical 5000 pop city.  A little higher then most other cities( actually ALL other cities our size from what I can tell) but our crime rate has fallen since 2010.   I know I know - people REALLY hate our police force and this is a real problem, but they ARE doing their job.  They need to relax a tad though.  You really do not want your citizens to loath you (which it seems they do).

Parking and parking tickets are the biggest thorn in peoples sides. Talk about one tiny thing that REALLY pisses people off.  Every person I talk to get this look of hatred in their eyes.  They forget that while crime is falling in Columbus (real crime like burglary and theft, not organized crime like selling cocaine out of restaurants) all the people of Columbus can focus on are parking tickets!

Police Force - if you are reading this - take note!!  You want the public on YOUR side.

enough!  gotta run

Have a great warm Tuesday - don't get used to it.

Rod    

      


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