That's a heck of a commute!
Commuting in the San Francisco Bay Area is a pain! However, a friend of mine said: "Commuting in an ICBM only takes 15 minutes to get to the furthest point within the United States. But you have to be careful of the sudden stop"!
CRASH!
Thanks to the Air Force, I lived in Texas twice - Lackland AFB (San Antonio) and Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo. We lived in the Pasadena Apartments. The manager told me about the terrible tornadoes San Angelo had had. But she reassured me with this comment: "Don't worry none about tornados! This good brick building will protect you"!
We were on the second floor. The last tornado that had visited San Angelo destroyed the downtown area, which included steel reinforced buildings, just a few blocks from where we lived.
San Angelo is in Tom Green County, a Dry County. No alcohol is sold there. It's in the bible. However they have bars. You simply drive to the next county, purchase your favorite beverage, return to San Angelo, pay $10 for the person in the bar to open your bottle, which they called a "
set up", and you may enjoy your beverage. This was 1965-66. I am sure that the prices have gone up.
Times change and all that. I see that you can purchase "packaged beverages" (what's that?) between 10 AM and 9 PM Monday thru Saturday, but "Never On Sunday"!
By the way, the Pasadena Apartment House is now a vacant lot. Perhaps a tornado blew it away after we left?
Has anyone seen red bricks scattered around San Angelo?
Tom