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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
THOUSANDS of cars form mile-long line at Dallas food bank as families drive across Texas for box of noodles, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, rice, and trail mix as unemployment cripples state
2020-08-14
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Fair Park in Dallas held its fourth food drive since the pandemic was declared in March and the event on Tuesday by North Texas Food Bank fed 1,710 families

  • The offering included dairy, canned goods, noodles, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, rice, trail mix and some recipe ideas

  • It was their first mega distribution that offered an option for several hundred walk-up clients without transportation

  • About 10,000 boxes were distributed as people said cuts to unemployment benefit had left them without

  • Dallas County, where the food bank was located, has recorded 55,787 cases of coronavirus and 794 deaths - in Texas there are 524,814 cases and 9,552 deaths - it's the third worst affected state in the country
Posted by:Skidmark

#15   How many cars can you get in a mile long line, anyway?

Copied from a comment I made in response to the same article posted in another comment thread:

About 1,700 families served [according to the article] times the average length of a car (14.7 feet) divided by 5280 feet per mile is slightly less than five miles long for the line, but the Daily Mail would rather be excited than mathematically accurate. but photos at the link show four lanes of cars. So there should be up to 1.5 miles altogether — including spaces between the cars.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-08-14 19:59  

#14  What's the saying?
In Texas, can't get to heaven or hell without going through Dallas.

Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-08-14 18:12  

#13  Supposedly from Winnie,

In America 100 years is a long time, in England 100 miles is a long way.



probably appocraphyl but you get the idea.
Posted by: AlanC   2020-08-14 12:10  

#12  ..which lead to the introduction of locked gas cap and covered gas caps with interior releases.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-08-14 10:53  

#11  If you were around for the '73 oil embargo, you'd know.

That's when I learned how to siphon gas out of other cars.
Posted by: Raj   2020-08-14 09:52  

#10  How many cars can you get in a mile long line, anyway?

If you were around for the '73 oil embargo, you'd know.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-08-14 09:39  

#9  Have the same conversations with friends in UK and smaller EU countries all the time about that.

You can drive from Brighton to north most Scotland in under 13 hours. I can drive 13 hours and not even be outside my state of Colorado.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-08-14 09:13  

#8  Many of the folks I've met who are vacationing from Blighty are astounded at the distances. They've had nothing to compare it to.

All of the UK (England and Scotland) is smaller in area than Oregon.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-08-14 08:42  

#7  How many cars can you get in a mile long line, anyway?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-14 08:36  

#6  Written by someone who's never driven across Texas.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-08-14 07:33  

#5  And I thought The Gateway Pundit was full of hyperbole. Driving across Texas for a box of noodles? Bovine egesta!
Posted by: Clem   2020-08-14 07:06  

#4  I've seen a few videos (food p0rn) of smoke houses in Texas and a few of the patrons could do with regular sessions of catabolic fasting sessions.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-08-14 04:08  

#3  Very misleading article written by someone in the UK.

The fake news writter sez they drove from across Texas, Texas is over a thousand miles across some parts of the state. Then the very next sentence the writer quotes only one driver saying he drove all the way from West Dallas (only 8 miles away) to the location at Fair Park which is near downtown Dallas encroaching the East Side of town.

Fair Park is surrounded by a huge low income area of Dallas, so the line should have been 5 miles long if all the people in East, West, South Dallas were starving to death, which they aren't.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110   2020-08-14 03:23  

#2  I wonder, what's the price of gasoline in Texas. And what's the mileage on most of these cars. Asking for a friend.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-08-14 03:02  

#1  The Illusional "Protecting" via lockdown of the soon to pass COVID victims will kill vastly more well people.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-08-14 02:32  

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