Don’t decide
A letter to the editor on July 14 advised that e-bikes are bought promoting train as their important use. I don’t consider that’s the case.
Being an older individual with a knee substitute, I really like to trip a motorcycle and now my e-bike makes it doable for me to get out on the highway or in hills once more and revel in being exterior doing one thing I really like to do. I don’t use the peddle help all of the time and it is rather like using a non-electric bike and I get a fantastic work out when wished.
So, moderately than decide these using e-bikes why not simply have a good time the concept that the individual is exterior having fun with life and never sitting round inside being unhappy they will’t do the issues they used to do. I for one am getting the whole lot I hoped for from my bike and consider it or not there may be train concerned.
— Brent Silcox, Kalispell
Lycra elitists
After studying Ed Dramer’s letter on e-bikes, I’m questioning, can we now know the true id of the Lycra clad elitist snob bicyclist in “Pearls Before Swine”?
— Joel Vignere, Lakeside
Hail storm hullabaloo
It began with this bizarre sound, like a practice roaring in – what IS this? Then got here the hail. The wailing wind, which first brings thrilling pleasure, however as the depth will increase, the pleasure turns to concern.
Banging on the skylights – will they break? It’s a helpless feeling. All one can do is take photos and movies and wait. It blows by in moments. Friends in Kalispell and Columbia Falls skilled their very own freak hailstorm final week, damaging vehicles, decimating gardens.
I pulled on Ugg boots and made my means by 4 inches of piled up hailstones. My husband and I walked round our yard in disbelief, taking in the whole lot that’s been destroyed by Mother Nature’s wrath. Vegetables and flowers fully stripped of leaves and blooms.
Two ideas prevailed – grateful that we’re not depending on the meals we’d been lovingly nurturing, and compassion for all these people who’ve lived by a lot harder climate occasions, struggling the lack of complete properties and neighborhoods. Slushing and sliding by ridiculously massive hail, the phrases “climate change” loomed massive. While we are able to’t hyperlink particular person storms to local weather change, we do know that these occasions are intensifying.
For years I shied away from eager about local weather change, certain that no matter my piddling efforts had been, it wasn’t going to quantity to a hill of beans. Recently, our daughter introduced to our consideration that there are efficient actions to be taken.
Sen. Jon Tester – the sole farmer in D.C. – understands the impacts of local weather change: on meals manufacturing, wildfire intensification, flooding, and extra frequent excessive storms. Please be part of me by calling his workplace to say you need significant motion to cut back carbon air pollution.
It’s now not doable to ignore local weather change as we glance to doing our half in creating a greater world.
— Jordonna Dores, Bigfork