There Are Dirt Roads in Iowa!

[Ben]

Yet they are always flabbergasted that Flyover Country rolls their eyes at them. Whatever happened to that HuffPo project to investigate the darkest reaches of wild America that exist outside of NYC?

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/05/20/iowahawk-unleashes-brutal-thread-over-politico-reporters-observations-from-iowa-hot-take/

[fifth_column]

Dirt roads are not a bug, they're a feature.

[K Frame]

I laughed out lout at the one saying the'll prep next time by spraying everything with hobo piss...

[Brad Johnson]

"...no one carries almond milk"

And in another story, they also have cows.

Brad

[WLJ]

"...no one carries almond milk"

And in another story, they also have cows.

Brad

Now I am become cow, the destroyer of worlds.

[zxcvbob]

Now I am become cow, the destroyer of worlds.

From the Babylon Bee:

[MechAg94]

David Burge
@iowahawkblog
Replying to @iowahawkblog
I guess being called "extremely well-informed" is a compliment, but it's sorta like being told you're very handsome by the Elephant Man

David Burge
@iowahawkblog
Replying to @iowahawkblog
I've been everywhere man
I've been everywhere man

I've been to Jersey City Elizabeth City
Brooklyn Downtown Staten Island Midtown
East Village Staten Island West Village Long Island
Brunswick Bushwick Yonkers Bronx sir

I've been everywhere

[MechAg94]

HERE THERE BE MONSTERS

[DittoHead]

Iowa is fine but I've got to say, I did NOT like their back roads on my last trip there. I'm no stranger to dirt roads, 2-tracks, and driving on frozen lakes but the crushed gravel mix they used had my little SUV fishtailing more than anything else has in years.

[grampster]

^^^^Ya gotta get to S. Dakoty before the dirt roads begin to get civilized.

[K Frame]

Iowa is fine but I've got to say, I did NOT like their back roads on my last trip there. I'm no stranger to dirt roads, 2-tracks, and driving on frozen lakes but the crushed gravel mix they used had my little SUV fishtailing more than anything else has in years.

Friend of mine lives in the burbs of Cedar Rapids.

Taking his Corvette out on those roads is FUN!

[brimic]

LOLOLOL they are called 'sections,' not 'blocks.'

Envirowackos are almost always come from areas that are mainly islands of concrete/asphalt and when they travel its by air to another island of concrete/asphalt , and rarely have any sense of scale of what the rest of the country looks like.

[Fly320s]

And in another story, they also have cows.

Worse than that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI

[HeroHog]

Worse than that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI

Grinning like an idiot sitting here listening/watching it! 

[Hawkmoon]

Yet they are always flabbergasted that Flyover Country rolls their eyes at them. Whatever happened to that HuffPo project to investigate the darkest reaches of wild America that exist outside of NYC?

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/05/20/iowahawk-unleashes-brutal-thread-over-politico-reporters-observations-from-iowa-hot-take/

Two things to terrify a liberal pantywaist:

... no one carries almond milk and caucus-goers are extremely well-informed.

Seriously: Who really cares that a NYC "journalist" couldn't find almond milk in Iowa? If it's that important to you, stay home where you can buy it. [What the bleep is "almond milk," anyway? I've never seen almonds with tits.]

[Unisaw]

“What the bleep is "almond milk," anyway? I've never seen almonds with tits.”

There’s a great signature line!

[Perd Hapley]

“What the bleep is "almond milk," anyway? I've never seen almonds with tits.”

There’s a great signature line!

You people need to get woke. You think just because someone has mammary glands, they're automatically not an almond? Wrong answer, bigot.

[charby]

Iowa is fine but I've got to say, I did NOT like their back roads on my last trip there. I'm no stranger to dirt roads, 2-tracks, and driving on frozen lakes but the crushed gravel mix they used had my little SUV fishtailing more than anything else has in years.

You just don't have enough practice, once the frost boils harden and the grader knocks down the wash boarding in the spring, I can run 60-70 mph on most gravel roads. 

[charby]

Plus this is not a dirt road (Typical Iowa gravel road)



This is a dirt road, only drive them when dry or frozen.

[brimic]

My ex-wife's house in the UP was on a gravel road. Never a problem with it, though we all appreciated it when people kept the speeds down on hot dry days.

[Ben]

Plus this is not a dirt road (Typical Iowa gravel road)

[img]https://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/304/2019/03/25183458/Gravel-Road.jpg

This is a dirt road, only drive them when dry or frozen.

[img]https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/images/e/e7/Levelbiowa.jpg

Yeah, NYC dimwit didn't know the difference. Probably 25% of the roads around me are gravel. Wherever they build these little 0.5-5 acre subdivisions with a dozen or so fancy houses, they seem to go in and lay asphalt, but for regular rural, a lot of the public residential roads are gravel, or what I'm finding here, mostly what they locally call road mix, which is sand through 3/4" rock. Whatever the sand is, it packs in with the rock and hardens pretty nicely.  I just laid and graded my road a few days ago, and the few vehicles going in and out coupled with the last few days of rain have already made it as smooth as asphalt, and it still has good traction.

[HeroHog]

That "graded too fast" dirt road "washboard" will rattle a vehicle to death unless you go fast enough to just hit the crests of the "waves!"

[Ben]

That "graded too fast" dirt road "washboard" will rattle a vehicle to death unless you go fast enough to just hit the crests of the "waves!"

Heh. They rarely graded (or did a crappy job) the roads where I used to fish in the Sierra in CA, and it took me a couple of years to learn that. The first few times, as my teeth rattled, I slowed down. Even 5MPH can rattle your bones though. When I learned to start driving 30MPH+ and leaving a ginormous dust cloud behind me, the ride was a lot smoother.  

[HeroHog]

Just like the Whoop-De-Doos in Motocross, just gas it!
 

[Fly320s]

[What the bleep is "almond milk," anyway? I've never seen almonds with tits.]

You need to get out more, city slicker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJCTIPWPNtw