{"id":2837,"date":"2002-09-14T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2002-09-14T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:03:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T01:03:32","slug":"okay_thats_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/14\/okay_thats_not.html","title":{"rendered":"Okay, that’s not funny"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a summer of searing drought, wrapping things up with a downpour that floods the local Interstate<\/a> is irony at its highest meteorological form. <\/p>\n

Though, to be fair, that area of I-25 has always flooded during downpours<\/a>, and the new construction there, though temporarily making things worse, will ultimately improve the situation.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Of course, it seems, based on water consumption<\/a>, that Metro Denver residents, not to mention certain others in points south, treat weather like this as the norm, rather than the water-restricted exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a summer of searing drought, wrapping things up with a downpour that floods the local Interstate is irony at its highest meteorological form. 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