Letters to the Editor
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Thank you, Ashley
I wrote a long letter, but I guess I timed out or something. I pushed "publish" and it all went away.
It doesn't matter, though. Turns out Ashley, from Eastern Oregon, has perfectly said many of the things I had in my letter. I grew up in Southern California, and moved to the Willamette Valley in Western Oregon about 20 years ago. It's nowhere near as rugged as Southern Oregon, but there are several places within a relatively short drive from my house where a traveler could get in serious trouble at the wrong time of year. The things I didn't know about driving in these new conditions was amazing. In Los Angeles, such considerations simply are not an issue, and I doubt that they were much of an issue for the Kim family. It could have been a case of simply not knowing how much they didn't know.
I have no intention of trying to recreate my whole letter. I apparently blundered into a technological limitation I had no way of knowing about, much the same way James Kim blundered into a situation that was out of his ken. For most of what I wanted to say, please re-read ashley's excellent letter, especially to the parts about the unduly harsh language. Calling Kim a moron, fool or idiot does not reflect well on you.