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One Man’s Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail: In 2016, Steve Eimers’s daughter died when she hit a defective guardrail. Then he learned that the country was full of them.
I should note I've been following Eimers online for the past couple of years; I hope this New Yorker article gives him and his cause some welcome visibility. You can, if you wish, subscribe to his Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheGuardrailGuy
>But for Eimers, who is fifty, it was a big day: he was going to meet his congressman, Tim Burchett, whom he’d been lobbying about guardrails since 2017.
>Burchett pulled up in an oversized pickup with expired tags. He is a sixty-one-year-old maga conservative who lives on a farm and builds longboards from scrap wood. Wearing a suit, seemingly against his will, he offered Eimers a fist bump. “Hey, dude,” he said turning to me.
I’d ask why it took so long for him to meet with a constituent on this issue. Wandered over to Wikipedia to see what legislation he’s been so busy with and I guess I have to eat crow.
> Burchett, alongside
Marjorie Taylor Greene, introduced a bill which ban
cloud seeding used for weather modification.The subject of the bill alluded to the disproven chemtrail conspiracy theory. Burchett said he would tell skeptics of the existence of chemtrails "If it doesn't exist, then you don't have anything to worry about."
[OP] bookish-malarkey | 23 hours ago
Archive link: https://archive.ph/2OzTd
I should note I've been following Eimers online for the past couple of years; I hope this New Yorker article gives him and his cause some welcome visibility. You can, if you wish, subscribe to his Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheGuardrailGuy
-spython- | 21 hours ago
Thank you for sharing this article. I had no idea how dangerous poorly installed guardrails could be, or how common that is.
InheritedHermitGene | 23 hours ago
The New Yorker does these types of stories so well. Full of facts, not sensational or too sentimental, but heartbreaking.
Here’s another that I’ve been thinking about for years (I’m sick today and I’m pretty dumb at the best of times, so this is a paywall link):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-sorrow-and-the-shame-of-the-accidental-killer
rhubes | 19 hours ago
https://archive.ph/sNKln
Here's an archive link of it. Feel better soon.
InheritedHermitGene | 6 hours ago
Thanks!
Snoo_33033 | 21 hours ago
This is an excellent article. Always love to see it!
Historical_Pair3057 | 20 hours ago
heartbreaking, excellent article.
I love that this family seems to be a light in the world.
and now we all know about hannah.
readingwritingreefer | an hour ago
>But for Eimers, who is fifty, it was a big day: he was going to meet his congressman, Tim Burchett, whom he’d been lobbying about guardrails since 2017.
>Burchett pulled up in an oversized pickup with expired tags. He is a sixty-one-year-old maga conservative who lives on a farm and builds longboards from scrap wood. Wearing a suit, seemingly against his will, he offered Eimers a fist bump. “Hey, dude,” he said turning to me.
I’d ask why it took so long for him to meet with a constituent on this issue. Wandered over to Wikipedia to see what legislation he’s been so busy with and I guess I have to eat crow.
> Burchett, alongside Marjorie Taylor Greene, introduced a bill which ban cloud seeding used for weather modification.The subject of the bill alluded to the disproven chemtrail conspiracy theory. Burchett said he would tell skeptics of the existence of chemtrails "If it doesn't exist, then you don't have anything to worry about."