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A Few Lessons From Yesterday’s Severe Weather

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Photo: Audrey Ward

I was out and about yesterday afternoon, bouncing between meetings at Highland Park Town Hall and University Park City Hall.

A few stray observations:

– The lack of buses in HPISD compounds emergency situations like yesterday. I’m not saying it isn’t a wise idea most days of the year, but when the carpool lane stretches from HPMS to Mockingbird Lane (and onto Mockingbird Lane), you have a problem.

– I would never live within a baseball’s throw of Turtle Creek. Even driving by at 3:30 p.m. (before the strongest rains), it looked like The River Wild.

– I miss being in high school. That’s Jacob Weisfeld in the photo above, sitting in the middle of Lakeside Park. People would probably call the cops if they saw a 27-year-old doing that.

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Bradford Pearson

Bradford Pearson

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