Sun Nov 6, 2022, 10:10 AM
Delarage (2,049 posts)
Delaware population reaches 1 million
[link:https://www.wrde.com/news/delaware-population-breaks-one-million/article_5b5fe22e-5ab3-11ed-9e9c-133d64b50948.html|
The Bureau says that this is up from April 2020, where they placed the population around 990,000, and is up nearly 100,000 from 2010, when the population was around 898,000.
So it was not my imagination....traffic *is* worse ![]()
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Delarage | Nov 2022 | OP |
True Dough | Nov 2022 | #1 | |
Delarage | Nov 2022 | #11 | |
MontanaMama | Nov 2022 | #2 | |
Walleye | Nov 2022 | #3 | |
DEbluedude | Nov 2022 | #6 | |
Walleye | Nov 2022 | #7 | |
DEbluedude | Nov 2022 | #9 | |
Walleye | Nov 2022 | #10 | |
GreenWave | Nov 2022 | #4 | |
bullimiami | Nov 2022 | #5 | |
Walleye | Nov 2022 | #8 | |
Delarage | Nov 2022 | #12 | |
Walleye | Nov 2022 | #13 |
Response to Delarage (Original post)
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 10:17 AM
True Dough (15,065 posts)
1. Any connection to your DU screen name
Delaware + (road) rage = Delarage?
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Response to True Dough (Reply #1)
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 08:35 AM
Delarage (2,049 posts)
11. Actually....
I'm pretty chill on the road---I always tell myself that "they might be going to the hospital to see a loved one" or something to explain obnoxious driving.
It's really a combo of Delaware and rage against the 2000 election heist---the beginning of the end, IMO. Imagine what where we'd be if Gore was elected. Maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened. The nice hybrids that GM and Ford were developing would've put them ahead of Toyota and paved the way for an almost full EV conversion by now. Solar and wind would've been promoted and our air and water would be cleaner. I have to stop now before I become depressed ![]() |
Response to Delarage (Original post)
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 10:19 AM
MontanaMama (21,566 posts)
2. We hit a million people here in MT as well.
Not gonna lie…I don’t like it very much.
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Response to Delarage (Original post)
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 10:27 AM
Walleye (22,818 posts)
3. All of those housing developments in southern New Castle and Kent where the watermelon fields were
Response to Walleye (Reply #3)
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 11:26 AM
DEbluedude (792 posts)
6. Sussex too.
LSD traffic is becoming a nightmare. Year round.
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Response to DEbluedude (Reply #6)
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 11:30 AM
Walleye (22,818 posts)
7. I know I remember being amazed last time I went down to the beach
One year in the Hummers parade in Middletown someone was carrying a sign that said, Middletown traffic, if you didn’t live here you’d be home by now.
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Response to Walleye (Reply #7)
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 11:34 AM
DEbluedude (792 posts)
9. That sounds like an interesting parade...
Mmnnnn.
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Response to DEbluedude (Reply #9)
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 11:36 AM
Walleye (22,818 posts)
10. I haven't been lately I think they still have it
New Year’s morning, more or less a hangover parade, the rules are you have to make the float that morning before the parade. Lots of humor and creativity
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Response to Delarage (Original post)
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 10:28 AM
GreenWave (3,031 posts)
4. What were the winning numbers of people (lotto fever type question)
Today is real quiet out. Maybe folks moved out in my neck of the woods. Some elbow room at long last.
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Response to Delarage (Original post)
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 10:36 AM
bullimiami (12,219 posts)
5. Geez I've never lived in a city anywhere near that small.
Let alone a whole state.
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Response to bullimiami (Reply #5)
Sun Nov 6, 2022, 11:31 AM
Walleye (22,818 posts)
8. Yes, the whole state is one big small town. Even Wilmington is sort of a miniature city
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Response to Walleye (Reply #8)
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 08:39 AM
Delarage (2,049 posts)
12. Driving from Wilmington to Philly
When I see it first, I think "Wilmington kind of looks like a big city" and then I get to Philly and I'm like "Nah--not quite"
Seems like most of the growth is around Middletown, but they are building all over the beach areas. All those houses and developments popping up across from Cape Henlopen High School---previously farmland--makes me sad. |
Response to Delarage (Reply #12)
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 08:48 AM
Walleye (22,818 posts)