That infamous Route12 is what brought me to the Napa Valley in 1964. A fully loaded cut lumber truck hit my father-in-law's Nash rambler head-on in 1964 and killed not only him, but his adult daughter, along with 2 or her 4 kids. My mother-in-law died soon after and all the funerals and the need for my spouse to care for her mom brought us speeding out here.
While on the way here, I stopped to visit my long-lost cousin in Auburn and she took me over to see where LBJ had just signed the bill authorizing Auburn Dam. Little did I know then how involved in the fight to finish that project I would eventually become. Hell, it got 2/3rds done before the Fiends of the River and Commercial Whitewater Rafting Corporations made up of spoiled brats, stuck in the 60's with their heads up Moonbeam's differential, claiming to be enviralists... killed it!
I don't know, Dave... how desperate does the energy problem and the resultant economic pressure have to get before the people finally wake up?
Short version, sorry to hear about your own personal tragedy re rt 12/Jameson Canyon. The road is now even more dangerous as about half the new workers in Napa during the Clintoon's high interest era, can't afford a home in Napa. The traffic patterns are now reversed with heavy dangerous traffic oozing into Napa during the Am and oozing out during the pm. I returned from fly fishing on the American yesterday evening and it was bumper to bumper from I80 to just South of Napa at 6+pm.
To try and answer this from you: I don't know, Dave... how desperate does the energy problem and the resultant economic pressure have to get before the people finally wake up?
One of my constant posts/replies is that for any ism, (socialism, facism, communism, liberalism), to survive, the ism must have control of the mediots and the media.
We know about the media here in Kalifornia. They are nothing but PR flacks or worse for the demonicRats like Davis and his band of sexual perverts in the legislature! So the mediots and media enable these criminals and perverts to remain in office!
Last but not least the failed educational system in Kali is nothing but a voting cult and fund raiser for the demonicrats. The so called graduates of high school and most colleges can't read and understand anything complicated. They have no thought processes beside White Christians/Jew men = evil. Dirty perverted life stylers = good! Then throw in about 7 million illegal aliens who can't even speak nor read English and who vote for the demonicRats, you have Kalifornia!
We understand on Free Republic, but our fellow Kalis have no concept nor understanding of the criminal actions of Davis and his perverts in the legislature!
It is a slow and uphill battle!