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Baymule
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Our road got a major make over today. The rains have wreaked havoc on the dirt roads in Trinity county. Floods, 10 to 18 inches of rain in a single day, rivers out of banks, flooding roads and homes, it’s been a mess.
There have been days I couldn’t get out. I finally resorted to leaving my car at church and driving the mule to my car. The road in front of my farm has gone from mud to a roaring river, calmed down to lakes and ponds, puddles and deep ruts. It’s been so long since our road was graded that there was a strip with grass growing down the middle. Thought I was gonna have to mow it.
Bennett called the commissioner at 8:00 Friday morning and bent his ear on the bad condition of our road. So I called him too. I pointed out that is a stretch of road that they cut ditches on both sides, which is good, but they narrowed the road so that 2 cars cannot pass one another and I told him I’m tired of backing up. His answer? “Well they are gonna have to move the fences.” That made me furious! But I kept my cool and let him know that we used to be able to pass each other and now we can’t. Besides that, there is plenty of room on both sides to widen the road. He said he’d check on it.
Monday morning 2 road graders showed up. They improved some places and made some worse. I talked to another neighbor, Punkin, this morning and she wasn’t happy one bit. I told her about the “move the fences” comment and that cooked her grits. Her daughter drove through the river in front of my farm in February and got to buy a new $11,000 motor for her car. She called the commissioner and told him how the cow ate the cabbage.
Return of the road grader! Not one, but TWO belly dumps of rock. Big 4” to 6” chunks that will pack down and give us a good base.
She let him have it on the 3’ deep washout that has taken out a third of the road in another place. It was filled with dirt yesterday, not even packed, soft dirt. She told him that if someone who doesn’t know this road drives off in that, it will flip their truck over, damage undercarriage and do lots of damage and kept telling him that he hid the big hole in the road and it’s not right, somebody is gonna get their truck or car tore up. I just wish I could have been evesdropping on that conversation! Yes, he fixed it.
Our road looks pretty good now! But those ditches still choke down that one stretch of road. Those fences have been there for generations. What a dip****t.
There have been days I couldn’t get out. I finally resorted to leaving my car at church and driving the mule to my car. The road in front of my farm has gone from mud to a roaring river, calmed down to lakes and ponds, puddles and deep ruts. It’s been so long since our road was graded that there was a strip with grass growing down the middle. Thought I was gonna have to mow it.
Bennett called the commissioner at 8:00 Friday morning and bent his ear on the bad condition of our road. So I called him too. I pointed out that is a stretch of road that they cut ditches on both sides, which is good, but they narrowed the road so that 2 cars cannot pass one another and I told him I’m tired of backing up. His answer? “Well they are gonna have to move the fences.” That made me furious! But I kept my cool and let him know that we used to be able to pass each other and now we can’t. Besides that, there is plenty of room on both sides to widen the road. He said he’d check on it.
Monday morning 2 road graders showed up. They improved some places and made some worse. I talked to another neighbor, Punkin, this morning and she wasn’t happy one bit. I told her about the “move the fences” comment and that cooked her grits. Her daughter drove through the river in front of my farm in February and got to buy a new $11,000 motor for her car. She called the commissioner and told him how the cow ate the cabbage.
Return of the road grader! Not one, but TWO belly dumps of rock. Big 4” to 6” chunks that will pack down and give us a good base.
She let him have it on the 3’ deep washout that has taken out a third of the road in another place. It was filled with dirt yesterday, not even packed, soft dirt. She told him that if someone who doesn’t know this road drives off in that, it will flip their truck over, damage undercarriage and do lots of damage and kept telling him that he hid the big hole in the road and it’s not right, somebody is gonna get their truck or car tore up. I just wish I could have been evesdropping on that conversation! Yes, he fixed it.
Our road looks pretty good now! But those ditches still choke down that one stretch of road. Those fences have been there for generations. What a dip****t.
