Asmodeus
06-11-2002, 08:58 AM
It sucks. The air itself stinks. The sewers were meant for a population of maybe 3 million and the city now has around 17 million. It just doesn't quit work...
The smog on most days cuts visibility down to about 300 yards.
Not even the locals drink the tap water. On most occassions it smells like raw sewage and on the other days it smells like dead fish.
Just walking around is a chore for the lack of air. The air is grainy for want of a better description. There is a metallic dust over everything. And that is just pollution. Sometimes it is hard to even open your eyes outside for all the stuff flying in the air. It is pretty bad when about every 5th person you meet walking around has some sort of breathing mask on.
Then the crowds... with a population of 17 million in a land area just a bit larger give or take than Tyler, Texas... talk about over crowding. It is ridiculas. The traffic od terrible and not even 1 person out of 1 or 2000 has any type of vehicle. Picture this- 3 lanes of traffic, seperate directions of traffic, having the same green light to merge to go the same direction. For those who have been to Tyler, picture the south loop and south broadway intersection and just imagine the east and west loop traffic and the south bound broadway traffic having the same green light at the same time all merging to go south on broadway... clusterfuck doesn't even begin to describe it.
Then you get into the pedestrian traffic trying to weave in and out of the car traffic... ARRGGG!!!!!!!!!!! That and wherever I go, cars and people stop to stare at me.
I have been hit by 2 little scooters so far but for the most part cars stop for me. Probably because I am bigger than teh cars are. And weigh more too.
Like I have been saying...
This is Asmodeus, signing off from Mars.
The smog on most days cuts visibility down to about 300 yards.
Not even the locals drink the tap water. On most occassions it smells like raw sewage and on the other days it smells like dead fish.
Just walking around is a chore for the lack of air. The air is grainy for want of a better description. There is a metallic dust over everything. And that is just pollution. Sometimes it is hard to even open your eyes outside for all the stuff flying in the air. It is pretty bad when about every 5th person you meet walking around has some sort of breathing mask on.
Then the crowds... with a population of 17 million in a land area just a bit larger give or take than Tyler, Texas... talk about over crowding. It is ridiculas. The traffic od terrible and not even 1 person out of 1 or 2000 has any type of vehicle. Picture this- 3 lanes of traffic, seperate directions of traffic, having the same green light to merge to go the same direction. For those who have been to Tyler, picture the south loop and south broadway intersection and just imagine the east and west loop traffic and the south bound broadway traffic having the same green light at the same time all merging to go south on broadway... clusterfuck doesn't even begin to describe it.
Then you get into the pedestrian traffic trying to weave in and out of the car traffic... ARRGGG!!!!!!!!!!! That and wherever I go, cars and people stop to stare at me.
I have been hit by 2 little scooters so far but for the most part cars stop for me. Probably because I am bigger than teh cars are. And weigh more too.
Like I have been saying...
This is Asmodeus, signing off from Mars.