Independence Missouri.
It’s that time of year again. Time to hit the slopes. Left my house at 6:00 AM EST and arrived here at 4:30 PM CST. 800 miles in 11 hours and 30 minutes which works out to an average of a little less that 70 MPH. I drove a little faster than usual since I’m using my BIL’s old radar detector.
I was a little worried about the weather. The weather report of KC and Denver looked OK, which is what I worried about. Atlanta to St. Louis sucked! It rained all the way across Kentucky and most of Illinois. Right before I got to St. Louis, the rain changed to snow and it snowed until about 40 miles west of St. Louis. Evidently, last night the weather must have really been bad between St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri since there were a few cars and trucks that had run off the road. I saw one pickup truck that had flipped over and was on the side of the road upside down. The snow plows were out, but there wasn’t all that much snow to be plowed.
Caution! Racist stuff follows.
I am really amazed at all of the growth there is across the Missouri River in St. Charles County and all the way out to Wentzville since I left St. Louis in 1985. I-70 has been widened to five lanes each way in places. Wonder what caused that? I’ll tell you what. Self preservation. As blacks migrated from North St. Louis to North St. Louis County to places like Ferguson, home to St. Michael of Swisher Sweets, they brought their crime and dysfunction with them. It’s sad that 13% of the population of the United States, blacks, commit over 50% of the crime. And they wonder why there is racial profiling. In St. Louis, blacks make up around 50% of the population but are responsible for over 80% of the crime. Often St. Louis is the murder capital (murders per 100,000) of the US.
So blacks left the city and moved to the county. Whites in the county, anxious to escape the crime, migrated across the Missouri River to St. Charles and points west. Thanks LBJ and the Dimocrat Party for the Great Fucking Society. Thanks for creating a permanent black underclass of uneducated people dependent upon the gummint. Thanks for breaking up the black family, sumpin’ Jim Crow and the KKK were unable to do. Currently, approximately three out of four black children are born out of wedlock. Black male children do not have fathers and as such have no positive role models. Their role models are athletes, thug rappers, pimps, and drug dealers. People who should be role models, like Ben Carson, a successful neurosurgeon are derided for not being genuinely black. Disgusting. What Dimocrats have done to blacks is a crime, but it’s Republicans who are racist. Meanwhile, we have the useful idiots like the CBC, who live like royalty, and the RWPPs like the fake Reverends Jackson and Sharpton who are in on the scam and have become rich exploiting “their people”.
But I digress.
I don’t know where the term, “flat as Kansas” came from. Have you ever driven across Illinois? Now that’s flat. It’s flatter than Kansas that’s for sure.
As I crossed the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers below the Lake Barkley Dam and the Kentucky Lake Dam in Kentucky, I don’t remember ever seeing the rivers so high. The Ohio River was higher than I have ever seen it as well. I couldn’t judge the Mississippi River at St. Louis because I-70 now goes across a new bridge upriver from downtown so I couldn’t see how high the river was at the downtown levee. They say this flood was not as bad as 1993, altho’ the Meramec River, a tributary south of St. Louis, set a flood record.
It was 50 degrees when I left Atlanta this morning. It’s currently 16 degrees here in Independence. Brrrrrr!
Tomorrow, I only have to drive 600 miles to Denver.