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"We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction."
~ US State Department, 1948
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Melt day. After a long frozen spell, we got rain and above zero temperatures. The whole city is dealing with the melt and rain water. Half my street is huge puddles that can't drain because of ice blockage. We've had a lot of snow and ice since last thaw. Earlier in the winter, there were a lot of fluctuations between freezing and above freezing. It plays hell on pretty much anything that gets soaked, breaks things, expands cracks. Road maintenance in the city is a huge cost, asphalt gets destroyed every winter pretty badly. My father managed city road construction projects, so I know a lot about it. This particular part of Ottawa is very close to the Rideau Canal, which empties into the Ottawa river not too far away, and the sinkhole is above the level of the Rideau, and WAY above the level of the Ottawa. So there's a lot of ground there that can erode away, and drainage nearby. for any underground silt water to escape to.
Think I'll take a bike ride downtown if the rain stops and check it out. But right now it's miserable. Though my bike DOES need a shower from all the winter salt all over it.
This morning the train crossing near my house was stuck closed. Salty water from the melt must have gotten in the sensors' circuitry. I'm sure there are similar problems all across the city.