This is a rant post. Sorry in advance.
I was running around Goodale Park the other day, with my dog. I usually park in somewhere in the Victorian Village like off of 2nd St. or Highland or Hunter, for example.
This day was especially muggy and hot, hot, hot; plus there was no breeze whatsoever. So, it's understandable that when you've got those conditions scents of all kind mingle, fester and remain static in the air.
But for some reason, in the Victorian Village, the sanitation system is not up to par. The entire surrounding blocks of where I was running smelled nauseating and like pure garbage. Vic Village is such a cute area of Columbus, it stinks...pun intended...that a person new to Columbus might just happen to walk around the area and be completely turned off of the Village, nevermind how charming the area is, simply due to the fact that the stench coming up from the sewers was overwhelming.
There's goign to be many more hot days in Ohio this summer no doubt. Is this something we can expect on the regular. Eeeewwwww. Does the city know how stinky it is over there? And with Com Fest here this weekend, and all kinds of people and the various smells that can bring along with food trucks and pets, like dogs, mixing the smells together with the trash cans...
I'm going to Com Fest, so hopefully it won't be so bad (and so humid). That'll will be a post of its own though. Stay tuned.
(pictures courtesy of SF Chronicle newspaper and justmy002worth.blogspot.com)
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