Downtown Dallas was like the depths of Mordor today.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I don't think I've ever seen it quite so bad- driving into it from the south, all of downtown was nothing more than a hazy, blurry, smelly blob. It got into my lungs long before I was even there, and I've been coughing up chunks of my lungs ever since- I had to drive through it a second time a while ago, and it just made it worse.

I'll be choking and sneezing for a week. I'm SO glad I reside on the outer rim of the county. How can all those poor downtown dwellers survive that noxious poison day after day?

[bloodyjack]

1. That was your mistake

One does not simply drive into Mordor!

[clovis29]

8. So the tower was like Sauron's eye? ;)

[T Roosevelt]

2. And this is winter

Just imagine it in July, when ozone days are kicking in...it's pretty awful.

[outraged2]

11. Yes- Its like...

walking around in a watercolor painting(but not so pretty). All the edges are kind of blurred and everything is fuzzy.

There was one day not too long ago I was crossing Central Exwy at City Place and had to do a double-take because I could not see downtown through the haze.... really horrible. It was like the entire skyline had been erased.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. But, did you meet a girl so fair?

[sendero]

5. He probably did...

... but the evil one crept up and slipped away with her :(

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. Actually, yes I did.

That's one of the joys of going to the VA hospital- all those beautiful young lady doctors. Today it was a redhead. I fell in love- she said I had a textbook knee (she was evaluating my MRI).

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. But did the evil one creep up and slip away with her?

As Sendero posited?

[sendero]

4. I work..

... not far from downtown. Sometimes there is this nasty smell in the air - like burning metal, I think it comes from a plant south of me that belches out noxious and equally odiferous poison all day long.

Yes, it sucketh verily.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

7. What are the boundaries of "downtown"?

Is Southwestern Medical Center close? I'm still learning the layout from afar.

[sendero]

9. That's really not ...

... technically downtown, but it isn't far from it. I work about 5 miles farther out from downtown.

That is about 3 miles from downtown Dallas, by my guess.

[outraged2]

12. I'd put the boundaries at I-35 to the west, Central to the east,

Woodall-Rodgers to the north and I-30 to the south.

Southwestern Med is just to the northwest of downtown... an exit or two north off I35