As you can see from the picture above, my morning did not start well today. But I do take some comfort in the fact that it could have been much worse. A lot worse.
Vehicles these days have more safety, technology, and convenience features than ever. Among them - most new cars and trucks have backup cameras. But I find the backup camera to be a little awkward.
It's a mystery that's been going for weeks here at the WOBM offices - about once a day, a car will drive by and blow the familiar first couple notes of "Dixie", made most famous by The Dukes of Hazzard.
Yesterday, I presented you with a mystery - there is a vehicle in Toms River that has been piquing the curiosity of almost the whole staff here at the WOBM offices. Today, we got a little closer to the answer.
It doesn't happen every day, and it doesn't always happen at exactly the same time, but someone in Toms River is whistlin' Dixie, and I need to know who.
They're the annual scourge of drivers everywhere - after winter, our roads and highways end up looking like the surface of the moon, with potholes just waiting to ravage your suspension.
With the half a foot plus of snow throughout Ocean County melting over the last week, the last thing that we needed here was a rain storm on top of it. But if we want to look at the glass as being half full, it actually did a big favor for a lot of us.
All of the snow that we've gotten this winter has definitely caused some headaches here in Ocean County. From travel problems to school closings & delays, and even parking difficulties.