You just made me even more grateful that I live in the deep South and had never even seen a basement until I was 10 years old (and visiting family in West Virginia). I’m totally cool with concrete slab construction, thanks.

As the proud driver of an MGB, this is the experience I can relate to.

And how exactly was a taxi strike in any way helpful to the cause of obtaining fair and humane treatment of immigrants and refugees?

While the Baofengs can be programmed to MURS frequencies (also FRS, GMRS, and really nearly anything in VHF or UHF) and can be set to transmit within the output power restrictions, they are not type certified for use on MURS or the other licensed-by-type services. So they are technically not legal for that purpose.…