MODESTO (CBS13) – The Modesto Police Department on Sunday was investigating a pair of early morning shootings that occurred just a block apart from each other and left one person dead.
Reports of the first shooting came in at around 2 a.m. from the intersection of Coffee Road and East Orangeburg Avenue, police said. A man was located with a single gunshot wound and taken to the hospital.
Glad you got out of that insanity. I lived in Houston for many years and sometimes see reports of shootings in the area in which I lived. The last big hurricane flooded the neighborhood we had last occupied, but I was never able to determine if the house we had owned got any damage. We count our blessings every day to have gotten away from that shitstorm.
The area I lived in was a couple miles from where those shootings were, but our neighborhood wasn't much better. It's gotten so bad that my old neighbors are moving out here in a couple months, planning to settle in the Murfreesboro area. When we first moved in there, it was all older folks that had been there since the 50s and 60s, then they all died off and from there, the area went downhill. The real kicker though was when the only apartment building went Section 8, and within 2 months the shootings and break-ins started happening.
Drove thru Modesto about 4 weeks ago on my way to La Grange. Hadn't been there in about 15 years after completing Kaiser Modesto hospital. What a pit. I couldn't believe how run down it looked and how overrun by the homeless encampments it has become. But that's happening all over CA.
I lived in the country south of Turlock and worked in Modesto. Every time I go back to visit relatives, I drive a big loop thru downtown, up McHenry to the north end of town (whip keeps getting further and further north) just to see how shitty it's gotten. It's like South 9th Street has infected the entire town.
It was getting pretty bad when I left. The last 3-4 years I was there I lived in Ceres and I avoided Modesto as much as I could. Ceres wasn't much better, but you live with what you have.
One indication TheRulingElites are abandoning an area: * TheRulingElites abandon the delusion of maintaining the infrastructure. Electric grid, bridges, roads, cities are so gradually abandoned, most folks barely notice the changes. And yet, the abandonment continues.
In 'abandon ye all hope' city death-traps, LawEnforcementOfficials are over-whelmed partly because their tax-payers are leaving for 'safer' locales ('safer' is a relative term...). Who remains? Tax-burners... geometrically reproducing by the millions/billions as tax-burners tend to do.
In the case of many California cities, TheRulingElites are letting the vermin return to their ancestral home. How long before we see reports of rats the size of Rottweilers, over-taking California cities in herds reminiscent of American bison 'stretching to the horizon'?
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One reason TheRulingElites abandon an area is diminishing natural resources. Energy sources such as coal and petroleum are harder to extract or are of reduced quality ('sour' oil). However, one 'natural resource' is always available in increasing quantity: * cheap human labor. Directing their captains/generals from one of their distant global homes, TheRulingElites barely notice the reduction in quality of LawEnforcementOfficials... or their deaths at the hands of inner-city vermin.
How do TheRulingElites see LawEnforcementOfficials? As a cheap renewable resource, easily trained, easily equipped, easily replaced.
1989, the moment I realized this, I sold my restaurant business in north California. During the decades since, I split my time between a rural Oregon farm and remote Baja beaches.
If you see a flaw in my logic, I welcome your rebuttal.
Glad you got out of that insanity. I lived in Houston for many years and sometimes see reports of shootings in the area in which I lived. The last big hurricane flooded the neighborhood we had last occupied, but I was never able to determine if the house we had owned got any damage. We count our blessings every day to have gotten away from that shitstorm.
ReplyDeleteThe area I lived in was a couple miles from where those shootings were, but our neighborhood wasn't much better. It's gotten so bad that my old neighbors are moving out here in a couple months, planning to settle in the Murfreesboro area.
DeleteWhen we first moved in there, it was all older folks that had been there since the 50s and 60s, then they all died off and from there, the area went downhill. The real kicker though was when the only apartment building went Section 8, and within 2 months the shootings and break-ins started happening.
Once a month for the last 6 months I had to drive down 99 thru Modesto. The highway was not pretty at all, lot of homeless.
DeleteDrove thru Modesto about 4 weeks ago on my way to La Grange. Hadn't been there in about 15 years after completing Kaiser Modesto hospital. What a pit. I couldn't believe how run down it looked and how overrun by the homeless encampments it has become. But that's happening all over CA.
ReplyDeleteI miss La Grange - lots of history in that area. I've spent countless areas there.
DeleteI lived in the country south of Turlock and worked in Modesto. Every time I go back to visit relatives, I drive a big loop thru downtown, up McHenry to the north end of town (whip keeps getting further and further north) just to see how shitty it's gotten. It's like South 9th Street has infected the entire town.
ReplyDeleteIt was getting pretty bad when I left. The last 3-4 years I was there I lived in Ceres and I avoided Modesto as much as I could. Ceres wasn't much better, but you live with what you have.
DeleteOne indication TheRulingElites are abandoning an area:
ReplyDelete* TheRulingElites abandon the delusion of maintaining the infrastructure.
Electric grid, bridges, roads, cities are so gradually abandoned, most folks barely notice the changes.
And yet, the abandonment continues.
In 'abandon ye all hope' city death-traps, LawEnforcementOfficials are over-whelmed partly because their tax-payers are leaving for 'safer' locales ('safer' is a relative term...).
Who remains?
Tax-burners... geometrically reproducing by the millions/billions as tax-burners tend to do.
In the case of many California cities, TheRulingElites are letting the vermin return to their ancestral home.
How long before we see reports of rats the size of Rottweilers, over-taking California cities in herds reminiscent of American bison 'stretching to the horizon'?
*****
One reason TheRulingElites abandon an area is diminishing natural resources.
Energy sources such as coal and petroleum are harder to extract or are of reduced quality ('sour' oil).
However, one 'natural resource' is always available in increasing quantity:
* cheap human labor.
Directing their captains/generals from one of their distant global homes, TheRulingElites barely notice the reduction in quality of LawEnforcementOfficials... or their deaths at the hands of inner-city vermin.
How do TheRulingElites see LawEnforcementOfficials?
As a cheap renewable resource, easily trained, easily equipped, easily replaced.
1989, the moment I realized this, I sold my restaurant business in north California.
During the decades since, I split my time between a rural Oregon farm and remote Baja beaches.
If you see a flaw in my logic, I welcome your rebuttal.