HOT NIGHT IN THE CITY
(Traffic--Absolutely. Earthquakes-- ? Crime--?)
The traffic from inland cities was something to behold at the end of the 55 Freeway in Costa Mesa's downtown this weekend.
That's the problem with being between the ocean and the desert when all of Southern California bakes. It's like being between Katrina Foley and a reporter from the Daily Pilot. You just get run over.
No doubt, some reporter from the Pilot is probably going to get Foley's take on the heat. Yawn. "Why, yes, I think heat is, well, hot." Hold the presses!
Some say that there's no such thing as earthquake weather--hot dry weather, as we're having now--and that it's just a coincidence that it seems that this weather often precedes earthquakes. The statistics on earthquakes seem to support the view that there is no correlation. Still....
This is also usually the type of weather when there are spikes in violent crimes. Lots of possible reasons for this. People are just irritable when it's hot, for one thing. And, in some neighborhoods, many of the people--including gang members--are sitting outside or in open garages in the barracks style apartments during the evening hours.
And, many of those garages open up on through-alleys. Say, did we mention that Katrina Foley's neighborhood of Mesa del Mar has many barracks style apartments with garages that open on through-alleys and that there have been a number of shootings in that neighborhood?
Did we mention that the City (at your expense) recently made at least one of those alleys in Foley's neighborhood even more easily navigated by a fast moving car full of crazed pistoleros, by replacing the old asphalt with nice smooth concrete?
Just for the record, it's 4:35 pm and the temperature in Costa Mesa is 97.9 degrees F.
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