An old-fashioned disaster

Noticed this at Spokane News page:

29900 West Jacobs Rd, technical rescue reported. For an adult female who fell in a well and is trapped.

The address isn’t in the Spokane metro, it’s way out in wheat country near Reardan.

I didn’t think water wells were fallable now. I’ve lived in houses with wells, just pipes into the ground with plumbing and motorized pumps on top. Even the old hand-pumped well wasn’t fallable.

In any case it’s a terrifying situation, and I’m glad they got her out!

While trying to find the location on Googlemaps, I ran into a bonus, an unchanged stretch of a 1930s federal highway, bypassed by a straighter modern route.

Leftover “old alignments” used to be more common even inside cities. Stagg Hill Road west of Manhattan was an even older highway, all brick.

Speaking of old alignments, this month is the centennial of 66.

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The City of Tulsa has installed the state’s first-ever “musical road” along the Southwest Boulevard Bridge, just west of downtown.
The stretch runs alongside the historic Cyrus Avery Memorial Bridge, a key landmark tied to Tulsa’s identity as the Capital of Route 66.
When drivers travel eastbound at about 35 miles per hour, grooves in the pavement create vibrations that play a familiar tune inside the vehicle — Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.”

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A nice use of modern tech to create the world’s largest phonograph record!

Here’s a brief video focusing on the wheel and the grooves. It sounds a lot like the earliest music synthesis of the Daisy, Daisy era.