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Dandelions grow right through the sidewalk on 4th Street in Coeur d’Alene earlier today. On the Tuesday, May 26, crews will start ripping out the pavement, curbs and sidewalks of a three-block chunk of Fourth Street north of downtown Coeur d’Alene. It is the first phase of a resurfacing and beautification project that is scheduled to last four months. (Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-Review) Question: What do you do to maintain your sanity while encountering road construction everywhere you turn during the six months of decent weather we have in the Inland Northwest?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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raymond_pert on May 19 at 2:20 p.m.
Here in Eugene, and I’d do the same in North Idaho, I remain grateful that the streets and roads are being repaired. Gratitude is a sure way to sanity.
OrangeTV on May 19 at 2:26 p.m.
Question: What do you do to maintain your sanity while encountering road construction everywhere you turn during the six months of decent weather we have in the Inland Northwest?
I keep a bottle of Jack Daniels in the glove compartment. OK, not really. It’s a bottle of Xanex.
Kibby on May 19 at 2:51 p.m.
I don’t have a problem waiting. It gives me a chance to reflect, listen to some good music, smell the roses so-to-speak.
BayviewBob on May 19 at 2:52 p.m.
Well, If I am anywhere near the flagger, I roll down my window and start telling them all my favorite stupid jokes.
They usually wave me past as soon as they can; sometimes into oncoming traffic however!! lol
JeanieSpokane on May 19 at 3:53 p.m.
I *appear* to be patient, calm, and reflective. Usually. Then there are those times when I roll up my window so nobody can hear me and I pretend to be singing at the top of my lungs to good music, when what I am really doing is being the worst potty mouth you ever heard.
It relieves a lot of stress.
Stickman on May 19 at 8:29 p.m.
Again, since I drive for a living, I stay away from those zones, especially 95. There are so many other peaceful ways to get around that mess.