>Kaiserslautern High School junior Vera Bahl said she then used her school-issued Chromebook to shatter the door so kids could climb out.

Don't they have those little glass breaking hammers in the buses anymore?

> The omicron variant is milder than the previous variants so there’s less urgency to get the shot.

Which ironically has made it deadlier because it spreads easier and thus infects more people. Even if a smaller.percentage of them die it's overall deadlier than previous variants in that sense

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This is a municipal utility, not a private company. What point are you trying to make?

None of the bodies were found. The last victim escaped wearing only a dog collar after she smashed his girlfriend with a lamp and booked it. That’s why they were worried they couldn’t convict and gave him a plea deal for shorter sentence for the girlfriend and his daughter who also helped. Then he died before serving a day of his actual sentence. Both women are free now.

someone will face the Consequences of not telling the Truth

How much of that cost is actual cost of the pipe vs more variable costs?

I'd think in a small town with not a lot of other infrastructure underground and a relatively mild climate/shallower frost line, you'd be coming in towards the low end of things in terms of per foot costs.

Personally I don’t see the problem with a couple million gallons returning to the water table instead of watering golf courses or growing water hungry crops like almonds.

Pure nightmare fuel. And the bodies have never been found

No, you've just chosen a bad metric.

The population of the town is not evenly distributed over the land area of the town.

A brief glance at a map indicates that pretty much the entire population of the town lives in a reasonably compact street grid between I-25 and the Rio Grande, while the municipal borders of the town include a vast area of empty desert to the north with near-zero development/infrastructure/population. Just as there aren't even roads there, there also aren't water pipes to maintain.

The US Census Demographic Data Map Viewer indicates that portion of town where anyone actually lives is around 1k people per square mile, and even that is probably understating the density of where the water pipes actually run, since the borders of those census tracts still include some big chunks of empty land.

That doesn't exactly make it a metropolis, but it is probably 5x+ the population density of the number you've come up with, and a much more reasonable density for having a municipal water system.

Edit: And beyond this, being somewhat of a tourist town, the need for services is substantially higher than raw population numbers would suggest. There's at least ~20 hotels/motels/RV parks within town limits.

The article notes: > "The city can attract more than 100,000 visitors during holiday weekends as people flock to the hot springs and the state's largest lake"

Those are obviously not all there at once, but the water system is clearly serving far more than the ~6k year round population, as well.

Damn. I guess we just stopped talking about it.

man, i bought a house in philly. previous owners had had the sewer line replaced, but didn’t bother to replace the lead pipe supply line while they had it open. WTF?

Best part? i live on a trolley line, so that complicates things.

I think it has been established that it does not mitigate the spread a lot, but does lessen the symptoms.

But trend fairly worse than you experienced.

Those Dwight Schrute style audio tapes 😱

~32,000 weekly average, around 1 in 10,000.

I still hear of plenty of positives, and my parents had their asses kicked by covid recently for nearly a month, but overall the numbers are low, like 1 in 10,000 people weekly average. But can suck if you get it.

Okay, i see how my original comment was not well phrased, but i meant it as a criticism of vaccine hoarding. I'll eat the downvotes but yeah rather meant the developed world selfishly held on to a large vax stock, knowing they were gonna expire (it's not a surprise) instead of gifting to countries who would quite like some.

Lmao it’s headquartered in El Paso, but extends well beyond Texas.

What a weird thing to say someone is making up when a 5 second google would tell you you’re wrong.

Yeah, the developing world totally wants our expired vaccines. Just send even more of our garbage to the developing world.

Shoot the hostage...

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The town agreed to be renamed after a 1950's TV game show to promote the program.

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