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Delbert from Li

11-04-2005 11:40:09




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My son works for an excavating Co. that does a lot of construction work for 3 or 4 telephone companies. Yesterday he got called to Saline county, SW of Lincoln to horizonal bore a telephone cable under a creek. County wanted to replace a bridge and the cable was on the banister as many of them are. When he got there the road was closed, and when he got down to the bridge, 1/2 of it was in place, and 1/2 of it was in the bottom of the creck underneath several hundred bushels of wet soggy corn. Nobody that he talked to knew any details, but there went some farmers profit and hard work for the year. Watch those old county bridges. Better to drive around the section then to wind up in bottom of creeck. I know of several near our land that shake and give me goosebumps just crossing them with Polaris ATV.

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Galen

11-04-2005 11:45:13




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 Re: May be OT in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 11-04-2005 11:40:09  
Yeah, Delbert - Johnson County has it's share of rough bridges. Most of the time, if one falls, they just never replace it. With the idiot we got running the county road crew - anything is possible! You hear about the County shop catching on fire?



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Delbert from Lincoln

11-04-2005 12:15:07




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 Re: May be OT in reply to Galen, 11-04-2005 11:45:13  
Hey Galen Please E-mail me at DelberttrainsA@AOL.COM. I hadn"t heard about the shop. Delbert



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Galen

11-04-2005 12:47:42




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 Re: May be OT in reply to Delbert from Lincoln, 11-04-2005 12:15:07  
Delbert -
tried twice to e-mail you, but it won't go through! Here's the gist of it:
Ford had a recall on some of thier cruise control modules, due to them catching fire. The county has (HAD) an F-150, which caught fire, even thought the recall was (supposedly) performed. The shop caught fire and had some repairable damage (MAYBE $10,000 worth). The county got the insurance to pay out $63,000, tore the shop down and hits the county up for an ADDITIONAL $70,000 to build a new shop/office. No meeting, no vote, no public involment, just a tax hike. It better be one HE11 of a County shop for that money. Now.... if they'd just hire a County Road Superintendent who had a little experience and knowledge about road construction & general contruction.....

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Jeff Oliver

11-04-2005 19:16:25




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 Re: May be OT in reply to Galen, 11-04-2005 12:47:42  
ya'll live in West TN? Sounds like some things that have been done here at one time or another... We're in the Emminent Domain thing here right now. Local power company tried to buy a farm to build a new office and shop on and the owner refused to sell. I mean heck I don't know why, the farm has only been in his family for a mere 5 generations....

Anyway they started wanting 28 acres, now they are in the process of having all 66 acres condemed so they can have it all.

Politics, don't ya just love it??

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730 virgil

11-05-2005 19:21:23




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 Re: May be OT in reply to Jeff Oliver, 11-04-2005 19:16:25  
we had something like that here stephenson co il county wanted new garage shop ; about the time were to build it somebody found out no bids had taken now we have 2 shop garage buildings as no one seems to want the old one



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