Texans give a whole new meaning to driving all day
Father Orthoduck and his wife are still unpacking and busy, so this will be a very short post to let you know that we arrived safely. Now, we arrived in Alabama, not in Texas. However, Father Orthoduck has driven across Texas and can verify that the above comic has some truth to it, particularly if you go across central Texas. It is a never ending state. As a result, some Texas speed limit laws are slightly different than in the rest of the nation. The below is from Wikipedia.
Texas is the only state that does not prescribe a speed limit for each road type. Any rural road—two lane, four lane, freeway, or otherwise—that is numbered by the state or federal government (United States Numbered Highways and Interstate Highways) has a 70 mph (113 km/h) statutory limit. The law allows reducing the 70 mph limit only if a study recommends a different limit.
Texas law generally has 60 mph statutory limits for all county roads.
Toll road authorities may post speed limits up to 70 mph. While the Harris County Toll Road Authority would normally fall under the 60 mph county rule, an exception allows it to post up to 70 mph limits on its tollway system.
Although very few farm to market roads carry a speed limit above the statutory 70 mph, FM 1788 (Andrews County), FM 1776 (Pecos-Ward County), and FM 1053 (Pecos and Crane counties) all have daytime passenger vehicle speed limits of 75 mph.
Father Orthoduck will note that his experience is that many rural Texans see the speed limit signs as being the minimum speed that should be kept on those roads. As a result, it appears that Texas has decided to save money on troopers by simply acceding to rural demands.
Texas statutorily allows the Texas Department of Transportation to post 75 mph (121 km/h) speed limits in counties with average populations of fewer than 15 people per square mile. The same statute also allows 80 mph (129 km/h) speed limits on I-10 and I-20 in certain counties named in the statute, all of which happen to be rural, in west Texas, and have a low population density. Daytime truck limits are capped at 70 mph, and nighttime speed limits remain 65 mph for all vehicles. (Nothing prohibits nighttime speed limits from being raised to 70 mph, but the Department has not elected to do so.) . . .
Because Texas law allows 75 mph speed limits on any road numbered by the state or federal government, it is the only state with 75 mph limits on two-lane roads. Several west Texas two-lane roads carry 75 mph limits, including portions of US 90. No other state has a limit higher than 70 mph on any two-lane road.
Father Orthoduck salutes the Texans and their HUGE state. (He wonders whether anyone from Alaska will reply.)
Texans give a whole new meaning to driving all day
Father Orthoduck and his wife are still unpacking and busy, so this will be a very short post to let you know that we arrived safely. Now, we arrived in Alabama, not in Texas. However, Father Orthoduck has driven across Texas and can verify that the above comic has some truth to it, particularly if you go across central Texas. It is a never ending state. As a result, some Texas speed limit laws are... [Read more]
On the way to a new posting
Both Father Ernesto and Father Orthoduck have been assigned to a new place by their bishop. They are in the process of moving to Alabama. Posting is suspended for this day and maybe the next. Do pray for our move, especially for the pastora (khourie, presbitera, matushka) who bears so much of the brunt of a move. Read More →
On the Gospel in preaching and practice
On a blog called Internetmonk, I am part of a group called the Liturgical Gangstas. The idea is that periodically the moderator of the blog asks a question of people from different Christian backgrounds who have an interest in liturgy to see how they would respond. Most of us are pastors, but not all. Today is one of the days when our “feature” is posted. Below is the question that we were... [Read more]
No matter how wrong you are
I like the cartoon above. It is one of the best examples of the concept of freedom of speech that I have seen in cartoon form. Freedom of speech really does not mean that the people who hear you speak have to agree with you or even to respect you or even to refrain from criticizing you. Freedom of speech does mean that other people have to respect your right to speak, and allow you the room to do... [Read more]
On fathers and teenage daughters
August 28, 2010
| by Fr. Ernesto Obregon | 1 Comments
Those of you who now have grown daughters may very well remember facing a moment similar to this sometime in their early teenage years. I say early teenage years because by the time they are in their late teenage years, they are normally horrified at the thought of asking their father anything that has to do with their bodily development. Now, you may not remember such a moment in your little girl’s... [Read more]
Indirect update on NYC mosque request
A couple of days ago Father Orthoduck posted on the whole controversy about the building of a mosque near Ground Zero. Mind you, the news media tries to make it sound as though it is on Ground Zero, but it is not, it is near it. An unintended side effect of those who are objecting so virulently and unconstitutionally is that a fellow parish, a Greek Orthodox parish, right at Ground Zero is not being... [Read more]
