Sand, in a gutter, in front of a fire hydrant that ran dry a year ago --Coarse, heavy. You know the wind is up when it can shuffle sand like that.Look up a bit, and there's a patch of dirt that used to be grass before the third round of rationing....
The importance of this was drawn to my attention two years ago by the case of a TV station. Whether by chance or by design, it so happened that there were almost exactly 150 people in the station. The whole process worked very smoothly as an organization for many years until they were ...