Just a news item — this condo building is only a few blocks from where the Waukesha Christmas Parade was held a couple of weeks ago. It’s also very near the Waukesha Dems office, so it hits very close to home. Send some good energy to the folks in Waukesha. Here’s the link to the story about the danger. At least the city acted on the engineering report immediately, evacuating residents last night, as soon as they learned of the danger. It didn’t wait for three years until it was too late, as officials did in Florida fairly recently.
It DOES make me think about how the infrastructure in this country is deteriorating because everything seems to be done on the cheap these days: cut corners on construction to save money; don’t refurbish old buildings and privately owned properties to save money; don’t spend tax dollars to fix public infrastructure to save money. It’s tragically symbolic of how this country (i.e. Republican) is so firmly planted in the 20th century century that we are now lagging behind other countries in the 21st center.