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Sometimes if I need something I will go out around seven. The throngs that crowd the ShopRite near my home (it literally takes less than five minutes to get there) have generally dispersed by that time. I simply won't go in to a store if the parking lot is full. I am a person who goes in and gets what I need and then gets out asap, and the way to not get myself angry and frustrated over slowpokes and crowds and people who seem to shop for entertainment and people who seem unaware of their surroundings is to avoid putting myself in situations to encounter crowds and people like that.
In the days when I needed something from a mall, I did the same. I learned that the elderly wanderers and the shoppers with kids were at the mall during daylight hours, and then the teenybopper mall rats would show up in the evenings to hang out. The best time to go to a mall is around six pm. It's an in-between time when most people are home having dinner.
Gosh I have literally not been in a shopping mall in at least 15 years. Last time I went I remember feeling less than safe with all the hoodlum looking teens wandering around.
You drive through a federally protected wilderness district? They usually have very low speed limits to begin with.
A wilderness district is a federally designated area of land with the highest level of protection in the United States. Wilderness areas are places that are untamed by humans and lack roads, buildings, and other artificial structures. They provide a natural environment for plant and animal species, and allow scientists to study healthy ecosystems
We drive through areas that have deer (we are 30 miles from the nearest SMALL town), and we have a lot of deer. The speed limit is 55.
I live in the suburbs in the most densely populated state in the nation. We have deer everywhere.
Since I live in a wilderness district with a one lane road, at night I drive 5-8 below the speed limit......much to the dislike at those who drive the speed limit or faster. Further, I am not one to further light pollution in the country by driving with my high beams on.
The Subaru still has its scars from a deer hit a few years ago and I see enough of them to know it wasn't a chance occurrence. Just last night as I was getting home, there was young buck running along my fence line....and he ducked thru the open gate into the dark of my ranch.
We have deer and bear, but the real issue is moose.
Moose fur absorbs light. So even when your headlights are directly on a moose, all you can see is a dark shadow. You can light up the pavement and the trees on both sides, but the moose itself will only ever be a dark shadow.
When headlights are on a deer or bear, you can see the animal.
Most vehicles hit a moose doing 30 - 45mph, the torso of the moose will come down on your windshield.
I have seen many photos of state trooper cars after hitting a moose. They try to hit the moose fast enough that when its body comes down it will come down on the back of the vehicle [and save the driver].
In this area, night driving requires that the driver must focus on the road ahead watching for any dark shadows that move.
"On state roads, PennDOT work crews handle roadkill pickups. During the course of 2023, through Oct. 31, District 12 contractors in Westmoreland, Fayette, Greene and Washington counties removed about 6,600 dead deer from state roads."
That is just the STATE roads through Halloween! And in only four of the 67 counties.
During the weekend, while it would be the ideal time for shopping between time and my energy levels, I often don't. I don't leave the ranch unless I have to because, afterall, M-F, I have to go into town, anyway, for work.
But once we retire, is this a habit that is ingrained into us? To find a reason to have to go into town, anyway?
You can change your habits as much as you want once you retire.
I live in the suburbs in the most densely populated state in the nation. We have deer everywhere.
That's a good point.
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We have deer and bear, but the real issue is moose.
Moose fur absorbs light. So even when your headlights are directly on a moose, all you can see is a dark shadow. You can light up the pavement and the trees on both sides, but the moose itself will only ever be a dark shadow.
When headlights are on a deer or bear, you can see the animal.
Most vehicles hit a moose doing 30 - 45mph, the torso of the moose will come down on your windshield.
I have seen many photos of state trooper cars after hitting a moose. They try to hit the moose fast enough that when its body comes down it will come down on the back of the vehicle [and save the driver].
In this area, night driving requires that the driver must focus on the road ahead watching for any dark shadows that move.
I lived in Anchorage Alaska in the 1980's and there were so many fatalities due to hitting moose.
For curiosity's sake - Texas permits new single family home residential construction in a dedicated wilderness district?
Which is Federal.
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