Reading tonight at Quail Ridge!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
 
Yesterday ran like it was deisgned to promote my reading tonight at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh. Two water main breaks (here and here, neither mentioned by the daily newspaper); a pedestrian run down trying to cross the uncrossable Capital Boulevard (this one got a couple inches in the paper); and beaches at Falls Lake, our main source of drinking water, closed due to pollution. It's infrastructure day in Raleigh! The good news is that will give us plenty to talk about on "The State of Things" on WUNC, which I'm on today at noon. The bad news is, why is nobody paying attention? And that's only locally. The gulf spill -- that's oil infrastructure, and energy infrastructure all over ... literally all over. In Boston a couple weeks ago a seven-year-old water pipe burst, forcing 2 million residents to boil water before they drank it for days. And floods in Nashville recently disabused anybody of the notion that stormwater wasn't a foundational infrastructure issue. And again: shoulders shrug, heads shake -- and we pump our gas, leave on our lights, water our lawns. An amazing moment. I'm looking forward to tonight's reading and today's radio. General theme: Wake up! You guys -- WAKE UP! By the way, that's a random picture of a water pipe break geyser; none available from yesterday's in Raleigh. Newspaper doesn't cover that.
Posted by Scott Huler
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