April 8, 2016 at 7:37 p.m.
Stay safe as warm weather slowly arrives
Editorial
Beautiful as Easter Sunday was, nature has a way of reminding us that spring isn’t quite here yet.
Just don’t try telling that to the kids.
Sunshine and even marginally warmer weather have been enough to send kids outside.
Bored and frustrated by a winter indoors, they’re eager to get out and get going.
That means, for the rest of us, that bicycles, skateboards, kids running out into the street chasing a ball and all the rest are now on the agenda.
In some ways, it’s like shifting gears. Or changing — the way the gasoline companies do — from the winter system to the spring/summer system.
Like it or not, city streets and county roads are going to be a little different in the weeks and months ahead.
Every five degrees in temperature change is likely to ratchet things up another 20 percent, maybe more.
So, shift gears.
Slow down.
Look not once but twice, then look again.
Sure, the kids should be more careful.
But they’re kids, and carelessness is part of the equation.
If you’ve forgotten that, think back to your own behavior when you were on a bike or a trike or a pair of skates.
The goal, as usual, is to get through this, to get through it together.
We want kids intact. We want drivers’ nerves intact. We want warm weather to be something all of us enjoy, not something that brings back memories of tragedy.
There’s a great spring and summer ahead of us — if winter ever shakes the last of snow from her broom — let’s enjoy it together. — J.R.
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