<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:35 AM, spike </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>In their astounding wisdom, the road department decided they need to do road construction on the interstate, on Monday, eclipse day, when approximately 8 billion yahoos from California needed to come thru there.</span></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">​</span></font></div><font size="4">That wasn't their fault, they didn't know the eclipse was coming. Thales of Miletus<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>was able to predict a solar eclipse in 585 BC but it's unreasonable to expect the road department to be able to do the same thing<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ in 2017 AD.​</div><br><br> John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div>