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2020-08-14 -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
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-14 00:41|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#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||   2020-08-14 02:32|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 03:02|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 03:23|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 04:08|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 07:06|| Front Page Top

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

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

#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||   2020-08-14 08:42|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 09:13|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 09:39|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 09:52|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 10:53|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 12:10|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 18:12|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-08-14 19:59|| Front Page Top

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