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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Friday, July 23, 2010 at 11:25:27 :
In Reply to: Re: O.T. Rant: Economic Stimulus posted by Gil [98.225.8.226] on Friday, July 23, 2010 at 08:38:14 :
Shoot me an email a few days before you come to town and I'll meet you somewhere. I tend to be out at my land a lot during the summer and I don't have email or phone there. Or you can just take your chances if you're in town. Ask people where that guy with all the old trucks is. Or check look for me at my "museum of obsolete technology", 410 5th Street. If the door's unlocked, I'm around somewhere.
I just found out that the bright yellow bumps on the new ramps are so blind people in wheelchairs can feel them with a cane and know that there's a wheelchair ramp there. The old obsolete ramps just had a diamond traction pattern pressed into the concrete. Obviously this improvement will make it a lot easier for all the blind people in wheelchairs to get around Wallace without needing someone to wheel them. The only problem is that there were only two people in Wallace who went around in wheel chairs and one of them has recovered so he can now walk fine. The other one only goes out to go around the block and "walk" his little dog, but that block is in the residential area and it doesn't even have wheelchair ramps and all the sidewalks are a broken-up mess. Plus he's not blind. But if he got blind, and he decided to go downtown rather than just around the block, he could use his cane to feel for the wheelchair ramps and he'd know that they are true federally-approved wheel chair ramps with bright yellow bumps on them rather than mere concrete ramps. There also aren't any blind people in Wallace, or at least none who go around with canes by themselves. I've never seen any blind or wheel-chair bound tourists or other visitors downtown either, but I suppose that now that we have the latest state of the art blind two-hole wheelchair ramps we should change the signs on the freeway from "Visit Historic Wallace" to "Visit Wallace and Experience Our New Blind Two-Hole Wheelchair Ramps".
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