Reason 246 how...

How do you know when you live in a major metropolitan area? Well, in Richland where Frank and Janelle live, all kinds of traffic accidents and such make the news. Here, I was driving home from Gaskells and there was a formerly flaming semi blocking two lanes of traffic on 880, backing it up for about a mile, and there's not so much as a news article in even the Fremont Argus (local to the area where it occurred) saying anything about what happened. Maybe I'm just funny, but when I pass a molten tractor trailer, I want to know what went wrong.

Ah well. Life in the bay area. I really do like it here.