Growth Spawns Crime in Cary, of All Places (safe, title)

[saturnfan]

When we moved here 18 years ago, there were no ozone days.

Now, at times, your eyes burn from the pollutants and your car windows become filthy overnight.

Not good.

[lamishra]

I don't know, I just read that in 1998 (the year they started ozone alerts, I believe) there were 35 ozone alert days in the triangle. So far this year there have only been 3.

Triangle On Third Ozone Alert - News - MSNBC.com (broken link)

[pgtrnr]

When we moved here 18 years ago, there were no ozone days.

I don't know, I just read that in 1998 (the year they started ozone alerts, I believe)

I was going to say...I wondered if there were ozone days eighteen years ago??

[OmegaBaby]

Originally Posted by saturnfan

When we moved here 18 years ago, there were no ozone days.

Now, at times, your eyes burn from the pollutants and your car windows become filthy overnight.

Not good.

The North Carolina Division of Air Quality didn't start issuing Ozone Action Day alerts until 1997. So you're right that there weren't any 18 years ago.

[OmegaBaby]

For the record, here's the number of Ozone Action Days in Raleigh-Durham...

[MikeJaquish]

I came here in 1997. It was brutal. I had never seen 105 degrees before.

2004 was "the year without a summer," as I recall. the heat just never got over the top, but seems like it has been playing catch-up ever since.

Originally Posted by jbognar

For the record, here's the number of Ozone Action Days in Raleigh-Durham...

[raccemup]

OMG someone snuck into that lady's garage and stole (GASP) BEER??? THE HORROR! THE HORROR!

Anyone who has ever lived anywhere there is REAL crime thinks this a joke. Of course someone will steal from you if give them an opportunity, that would happen anywhere and doesn't make a place any less safe. Now personal and violent crimes... that's where you need to start to worry.

[saturnfan]

Cary had those too. Not too long ago, a Cary cop was shot in the face by a drug dealer. He lived but never returned to duty.

[MikeJaquish]

Originally Posted by saturnfan

Cary had those too. Not too long ago, a Cary cop was shot in the face by a drug dealer. He lived but never returned to duty.

"Not too long ago?" What does that mean?
When did this happen?

[pgtrnr]

"Not too long ago?" What does that mean?
When did this happen?

Cary, NC – At approximately 11:49 PM, Wednesday, October 10, 2001, a Cary Police Officer, while performing a traffic stop, was shot once in the forehead with what is believed to be a 9mm handgun. The shooting occurred in the northbound lane of US 1 & 64 at Walnut Street. The officer, George F. Almond, 29, is alive and was taken to Wake Med Hospital.
News Release (http://www.townofcary.org/news/news2001/policeofficershot.htm - broken link)