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Publicly Working on the Coast Highway - Sam Son - 11-17-2024
. The County Department of Public Works may have a reputation for moving at a snail's pace, but if every government meeting was conducted with the lightning speed of Friday's Highway 137 Project Update, people might actually get interested in civics again. Not only was this meeting held on Zoom so you could participate and drink beer at the same time, but it clocked in at eleven minutes. And that was with everything said twice. Jeez, go shopping at Malama Market on food stamp day and you'll spend more time than that standing in the checkout line.
The good news is that the DPW expects the highway between 4-Corners and Pohoiki to be finished on schedule. Of course, the contractor was given a year and a half to rebuild 3.6 miles of road, so that shouldn't be too hard. Except for the fact that at the time of this Public Service Announcement the project was at a dead standstill.
Why? Apparently the surveyors and the contractors came up with significantly different measurements of the elevation of the lava flow. Which is to say, the guy doing the bulldozing thinks there's a hell of a lot more rock there than the bid specifications state there is. And until the actual size of the mountain Mohamad has to move is determined, all work ceases.
Was this whole stop-work action caused by a surveyor who couldn't read the GPS unit output? Or is the contractor trying to squeeze some more juice out of FEMA? Or do geothermal plant operatives feel so threatened by the advancement of development into their perimeter that they are now using clandestine magma-reconfiguring methods to alter the depth of the wasteland they created with their controlled LERZ lava breach?
Regardless, everyone seems confident the deadline for completion will still be met, so there must have been quite a bit of padding stuffed into that workorder. But looking backwards, I'm not so optimistic. Here's what we've been told so far:
February 2023 Schedule Finished 2/14/2025
April 2023 Schedule Finished 5/30/2025
October 2023 Schedule Finished 9/2/2025
November 2024 Schedule Finished 3/31/2026
So, will this road and waterline be in use before Easter of 2026? Heck, I once heard of a horse accidently kicking a piglet so hard it flew, so anything is possible.
RE: Publicly Working on the Coast Highway - leilanidude - 11-18-2024
Or do geothermal plant operatives feel so threatened by the advancement of development into their perimeter that they are now using clandestine magma-reconfiguring methods to alter the depth of the wasteland they created with their controlled LERZ lava breach?
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Please don't go there. The Puna Paranoid already have enough wild, non-factual conspiracy theories...
RE: Publicly Working on the Coast Highway - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 11-18-2024
do geothermal plant operatives feel so threatened by the advancement of development into their perimeter
Anyone who builds near the existing geothermal plant and then complains about the geothermal plant, (complete the sentence as you see fit).
RE: Publicly Working on the Coast Highway - Obie - 11-18-2024
If you are on Facebook, they have a group of over 600 who complain almost daily about PGV.
They don't seem to realize that the eruption of 2018 is still emitting gasses and various smells of things like houses and cars buried under the still hot lava.
They also believe PGV caused the eruption, some even believe it's a cover-up for illegal mining.
I read it for the humor.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1050633628673137
Here is a good one. Incinerating nuclear waste.
PLEASE, Michael:
Stop Big Island’s nefarious, poisonous, geology-destroying PGV
ORMAT has been incinerating tanker trucks full of their OTHER worldwide nuclear facilities spent radioactive WATER
By pouring it down the drilled tubes
Into my air supply
Into Big Island groundwater.
CONGRATULATIONS!
A great pick!
We are SAVED
RE: Publicly Working on the Coast Highway - leilanidude - 11-18-2024
Obie - I just looked through that. What a bunch of nonsense. Of course the usual instigator is behind it and making all sorts of phony claims about doctor visits due to PGV, etc. Then I noticed which "doctor" she used....
RE: Publicly Working on the Coast Highway - kalianna - 11-18-2024
For those of us not on Facebook, can one of you guys post the names of the "doctor" and the usual instigator. Mahalo.
RE: Publicly Working on the Coast Highway - leilanidude - 11-18-2024
Lawrence E. Badgley - Hilo
Doctor Feelgood
"...Dr. Laurence E. Badgley, aka Dr. Feelgood, was the tour physician to The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin in the 1970s.
Dr. Laurence E. Badgley, who was a star in the 1970's movie " Cocksucker Blues ", first became famous as the original " Dr. Feelgood ", the notorious doctor for the Rolling Stones. In an article by Andy Warhol in "Rolling Stone" for April 12, 1973, Truman Capote was quoted as saying the following about Dr. Badgley:
"They had this doctor on the plane who was a young doctor from San Francisco, rather good looking. He would pass through the plane with a big plate of pills, every kind you could imagine, everything from vitamin C to coke ... I couldn't really quite figure out why. He had just started practice in San Francisco, and this seemed sort of a dramatic thing to be doing, traveling with, uh ... I mean, especially since he wasn't particularly a great fan of theirs..."
RE: Publicly Working on the Coast Highway - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 11-18-2024
claims about doctor visits due to PGV
Did her doctor prescribe medical marijuana for PGV ailments? Asking for a friend.
Also, is the good doctor accepting new patients at this time? Asking for another, completely different friend.
RE: Publicly Working on the Coast Highway - kalianna - 11-19-2024
Ah, yes. I had already checked him out several years ago. And despite your tumbler link I never found anything else on the net supporting the Dr. Feelgood claim from any reputable sources. Not that this matters in terms of PGV. But who is Michael who will save us?
RE: Publicly Working on the Coast Highway - TomK - 11-19-2024
I am surprised the name "Dr." Leonard G. Horowitz hasn't been mentioned.
(11-18-2024, 10:15 PM)HereOnThePrimalEdge Wrote: claims about doctor visits due to PGV
Did her doctor prescribe medical marijuana for PGV ailments? Asking for a friend.
Also, is the good doctor accepting new patients at this time? Asking for another, completely different friend.
I just watched a documentary about Windscale in the UK. It was a bit of a disaster, and some were told to get iodine tablets. It made me wonder if those who chose to live near PGV have looked at the possibility of similar types of preventative medication, and if they're prescription-only, have they seen a reputable medical doctor to get those medications prescribed?