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(written Wednesday very late, or rather Thanksgiving Day super-early)
It occurred to me tonight that December 1st is going to be here before we know it, what with Thanksgiving being so late, so I guess I could actually start writing a little early and get a head start.
We had to work tonight. It was fairly busy early on and then it died off almost completely. We should have closed early but apparently nobody thought of that ahead of time.
On the way home we got off the freeway and ran into a WALL of police cars, lights blazing. I am not kidding. Everybody was just turning around and going back the other way rather than try to see if they'd let you through that. I don't think I want to know what was over there, anyway. That many cars, it was something very bad.
We don't have much crime in our little corner of suburbia, that's why this was so unusual - although technically we were in the next town over when we saw the police cars. That town is bigger and I suppose they probably have somewhat more crime, just because there's like 3x as many people. We live in a smallish town squashed in between two other towns that have grown a lot more. Like, they've got 100,000 people each, somewhere around there.
I grew up in this area and I can tell you that when I was a kid (admittedly a long time ago now) all these towns had 10,000 people or so each. The town I grew up in is maybe 50K now, where I live is 30K (just because we're in the middle, no room to expand), and the other two are the boom-towns, relatively speaking, with about 100K each . I think the police departments of the two big towns are bound to be majorly overloaded because they've grown so fast.
The town we live in, despite being the smallest of the bunch (or maybe partly because of that) is the one that gets all the Best Place to Live kind of awards. (I'm not telling you town names but we're talking about Houston SE suburbs, near the Johnson Space Center.)
(I'll do a something more like an actual catch-up entry later on!)
We don't have much crime in our little corner of suburbia, that's why this was so unusual - although technically we were in the next town over when we saw the police cars. That town is bigger and I suppose they probably have somewhat more crime, just because there's like 3x as many people. We live in a smallish town squashed in between two other towns that have grown a lot more. Like, they've got 100,000 people each, somewhere around there.
I grew up in this area and I can tell you that when I was a kid (admittedly a long time ago now) all these towns had 10,000 people or so each. The town I grew up in is maybe 50K now, where I live is 30K (just because we're in the middle, no room to expand), and the other two are the boom-towns, relatively speaking, with about 100K each . I think the police departments of the two big towns are bound to be majorly overloaded because they've grown so fast.
The town we live in, despite being the smallest of the bunch (or maybe partly because of that) is the one that gets all the Best Place to Live kind of awards. (I'm not telling you town names but we're talking about Houston SE suburbs, near the Johnson Space Center.)
(I'll do a something more like an actual catch-up entry later on!)
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Date: 2019-12-02 05:11 am (UTC)I don't know that where I live now has enough police on duty at one time to make a wall of cars. So different than metro Detroit. :D