Thursday, September 13, 2012

Where We're Going We Don't NEED Roads!

Not really. It's just that the attercops won't let us have them. [Read]

4 comments:

Mack said...

The blind betraying the blind.

CarlS said...

Must be a truly dumb arachnid to not realize safety lies in getting out of the way of multi-ton road-building equipment. The politicians and bureaucrats implementing the "Save the spiders - Save the animals - Save the unique rocks campaigns must be very religious. Else they would get out of the way and let "evolution" continue.

Anonymous said...

Wow! Found only twice in the world, both times in Bexar (pronounced "Bear") county. Must already be on its way out if it's that scarce!

Besides, I can attest from personal experience that it this thing goes extinct, Texas has plenty of other creepy-crawlies to fill in for it.

Anonymous said...

I live in S.A. and I am Damned Glad I almost never need to drive that far west on 151. Poor barstids who live out that way and have to take 151 to/from work are totally screwed. But since the people who make all the decisions live 20 miles or more away in a completely different quadrant of the city I don't expect it to be resolved soon. Hell, they've been working on 151 since the 80s.

Gotta love all the little "endangered" critters and plants etc. Every summer I get to watch my grass die so a couple of bugs, a couple of fish and some kind of weedy grass can stay around. EXCEPT! that they were preserved in the 20s by people raising them in terrariums and acquariums and nobody bothered to record which critter/plant came from which set of springs (there're two sets) so they just seeded 'm in both and no the springs can't be allowed to drop below a certain flow rate. Course that minimum flow rate is three times the max recorded rate before the springs were dynamited to improve them for tourists. The minimum also just happens to be the minimum needed to sustain the Guadalupe and Comal rivers so that a major chemical plant down stream near the coast doesn't have to pay for water. Did I mention that the parent company of said plant bankrolled the Sierra Club's lawsuit which resulted in the mess?