Oh Deer!

Well, not to worry. Surely EHD disease will spread to Wisconsin and North Dakota and decimate the herds there as it is doing in Michigan. Really. Just have not seen that many dead deer on the side of the road this year. Let us hope that this poor victim of deer/car accidents does not have any water on her property for the poor beasties to wander to when they become insanely feverish before death. The pictures of dead deer by and in ponds that I’ve seen have been been very distrubing. Probably part of some Gov’t induced zoombie plot.

This woman is hardly atypical. On Car Talk the guys joked that global warming was caused by the extra hour of sunlight during Daylight Savings Time.
I tried this out on coworkers, mostly college students. I got a couple “So that’s it”, more puzzled looks — I think they knew _something_ was wrong but didn’t know what.

I must admit though, when I was a kid I thought “Falling Rock Zone” signs on the NYS Thruway said “Fallen Rock” so one should scan the road ahead. I think I was in my 20s before I realised my mistake.

Hey, Donald, I wish our City Council of Nairobi would put up signs where Maasai cows cross our roads within Nairobi City. Since we began experiencing serious droughts about 20 years ago, the Maasai have formed a habit of bringing their hundreds upon hundreds of cow herds into the City Boundaries to graze, causing sheer mayhem on our roads and nightmare to the motorists. Apart from causing traffic jams, they eat the flowers on the Roundabouts and Dual Carriageway Pathways. Can you imagine one day in the year 2001, when I was going to a Friends of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa Meeting along the Highway called Nyerere Road smack in the Nairobi City Centre, all cars were stopped for over half a hour as hundreds of cows were walking down the Hill on the Road called – you guessed it – State House Road where it joins the Major Kenyatta Avenue!!!!!!!.

We puffed and huffed in frustration as we waited for them to cross. Some were stopping right in the middle of the junction to urinate and others were making blobs of droppings before they would slowly move on!!!!. Our conclusion – you can remove the Head of State from the Village but you cannot remove the Village from the Head of State. At that time our President was Daniel arap Moi from the smallest Kalenjin Community of Rift Valley called Tugen. Thank God, our current President is a Gentleman and a Harvard School of Economics Alumni to boot. Thank God for His Mercies. I say pole to Donna and her deer accidents.

It appears that due to the rank failures of local governments to make the rich pay their “fair share” in taxes, they don’t have funds in budgets to translate “Don’t Walk” into Deerish.

“It appears that due to the rank failures of local governments to make the rich pay their “fair share” in taxes, they don’t have funds in budgets to translate “Don’t Walk” into Deerish.”

Let’s not forget that these deer have been the result of public education. Thus we need programs to further road crossing safety for deers. Its the new social justice issue.

I’ll bet Donna is a blonde – that photo is most appropriate.

Actually, those deer would look real good in a scope – is hunting season off or what; if there were hunters around the main roads, the deer would very quickly find other ways to get to where they want to go. We don’t have “seasons” for hunting deer or pigs here – you have to go out into the bush weel away from highways to do your hunting

The deer must be so thirsty – looking for water, especially after the drought this year, that they have no time for the news or those highway people notices. Heaven forbid careful driving to allow for the herds that ignore the rules of the road. If it is all so drastic, there should be maybe hunting and man-made ponds set in with all the expensive equipment the highway depts. have. The woodland homes of the creatures are shrinking. Since the herds don’t read or recognize their silhouettes on signs, drivers might respond to big blinking warnings.

People are seeing moose, bears, foxes, bobcats, hawks and coyotes in this city built on a hill that runs down from mountain reservoirs to a river. Farms became neighborhoods. A really snarly woodchuck dug a home under my shed last year. (My cat is allowed to only look out windows and she cries about not no longer going out.) Those accident statistics in IL are huge. Are there a lot of ticks there? Don’t know about statistics here, but when there’s an occasional accident with an animal, it’s usually on the pretty high speed road (with signs) between the reservoirs. Other slow going side roads near ponds seem to be live and let live. Maybe drivers should use the mph that would allow for quick stops, as they would on icy roads.

Thank you, Don for that illustrative Clip. You see, the Masaai feign ignorance and deliberately break the City Council of Nairobi’s Bay-laws which forbid any domestic animals within the City Boundaries. These by-laws have been there since I came into this “City in the Sun” during the Colonial times- way back in 1956 – and they have never been repealed. The Masaai are aware of them alright. They ignore them because they have political personalities who chose to defend them for selfish reasons. My fear is when they begin to venture into the 55kms. 10-lanes Super Highway which has been constructed between the Nairobi Capital City and Thika Township. The road carnage of both motorists and cows will be horrendous. This is the busiest Highway in Kenya.