This is another update on Becky's gas monitor. It went off at 6:27(5/21/2010) am and kept beeping for 5 minutes.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
RUDE AWAKENING
This is another update on Becky's gas monitor. It went off at 6:27(5/21/2010) am and kept beeping for 5 minutes.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
A letter from Congressman Cynthia Lummis
Becky got this from Congressman Cynthia Lummis, and was wondering what everyone thought about these issues. Please feel free to comment.
I would like to hear your ideas and concerns for America’s future.
I believe that by recommitting ourselves to government of the people - federal policy driven by every day Americans and not by Washington, D.C. insiders – to protect our liberty, revitalize our economy and restore our economic and personal freedom is the best policy. Please share your ideas and concerns so that I may better represent you in Congress. I hope to enlist thousands of Wyomingites' common sense ideas into my work in Congress.
Please forward this email to your friends and family, as we need to involve as many Wyomingites as possible.
Sincerely,
Congressman Cynthia Lummis
This is what I think Congress should prioritize
Please rate the following issues you think Congress needs to address on a scale of 1-6, 1 being most important.
Jobs
Taxes (estate tax, flat tax, fair tax, VAT, capital gains tax etc…)
Cut Federal Spending/Balance the Budget
Border Security
Debt (Medicare and Social Security Reform)
Health Care Reform
I would like to hear your ideas and concerns for America’s future.
I believe that by recommitting ourselves to government of the people - federal policy driven by every day Americans and not by Washington, D.C. insiders – to protect our liberty, revitalize our economy and restore our economic and personal freedom is the best policy. Please share your ideas and concerns so that I may better represent you in Congress. I hope to enlist thousands of Wyomingites' common sense ideas into my work in Congress.
Please forward this email to your friends and family, as we need to involve as many Wyomingites as possible.
Sincerely,
Congressman Cynthia Lummis
This is what I think Congress should prioritize
Please rate the following issues you think Congress needs to address on a scale of 1-6, 1 being most important.
Jobs
Taxes (estate tax, flat tax, fair tax, VAT, capital gains tax etc…)
Cut Federal Spending/Balance the Budget
Border Security
Debt (Medicare and Social Security Reform)
Health Care Reform
Please send your well wishes and prayers to the Liggett Family
Everyone,
Please keep the Liggett Family in your thoughts and prayers. John is in the hospital.
Megan, if you need anything, please let us know by emailing Becky.
Please keep the Liggett Family in your thoughts and prayers. John is in the hospital.
Megan, if you need anything, please let us know by emailing Becky.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Becky's monitor
5/16/2010
the monitor went off again today. We had calm weather. It recorded at 219 and could be heard couple of houses away and went off for 35 minutes.
the monitor went off again today. We had calm weather. It recorded at 219 and could be heard couple of houses away and went off for 35 minutes.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Home reinspections end; 'Tree Street' residents hopeful
Homeowners anxious to receive adequate compensation for damages from state
By JEFF GEARINO - Southwest Wyoming bureau | Posted: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:00 am
ROCK SPRINGS -- "Tree Street" residents are brimming with hope now that engineering teams have completed reinspections of the damage to their homes caused by a controversial 2007 subsidence project.
More than a dozen residents in the downtown Rock Springs neighborhood have been battling the state over the new inspections after rejecting Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg's first settlement offer in 2008 to repair damages.
Homeowners contend the state's first offers were way too low to adequately pay for much-needed repairs.
The reinspections wrapped up Friday and will serve as the basis for new settlement offers from the attorney general. Tree Street homeowners hope the next offers will more fairly compensate them for damage repairs.
"It took two years to get them here ... and I think we all breathed a sigh of relief" when the inspections were completed, Tree Street spokeswoman Becky Kelley said.
"I honestly think there will be some good reports coming back," she said.
Kelley said the engineers looked 14 homes, a church and an apartment complex during the week-long inspections that began May 3.
"These engineers seemed to have it together ... they're known for this kind of work," Kelley said. "So now we sit back and wait to see what happens next."
State officials contracted with J.A. Cesare and Associates of Centennial, Colo., last month to perform a second round of engineering inspections.
The Wyoming Legislature approved a budget amendment this past session that directed $120,000 for the hiring of a qualified structural engineer to perform the new damage assessments.
Fair compensation
The Tree Street homes were damaged during the mine subsidence project that was conducted by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's Abandoned Mine Lands Division beginning in late July 2007.
The project aimed to free vacant lands for new housing on a nearby tract of land that had been previously precluded for development because of past mine subsidence issues.
At the city's request, the state devised a reclamation plan that included the use of a pilot subsidence technique known as dynamic compaction.
For three weeks, state contractors dropped 25- and 35-ton weights several thousand times on the tract to collapse the old underground mine voids.
But soon after, Tree Street residents began complaining about major damage to homes, foundations, fences, decks, driveways, windows, doors, floors and other areas.
The state and DEQ officials have maintained the offers should fairly compensate homeowners for damage from the dynamic compaction portion of the project.
State officials said a lack of baseline information about homes and buildings surrounding the project site made it difficult for the first engineering inspections conducted in 2008 to discern what was damage from the dynamic compaction and what was damage that was to be expected from normal subsidence in the neighborhood.
Kelley said homeowners have not discounted further legal action if the new settlement offers fail to adequately pay for the repairs of damaged homes.
Attorneys for the Tree Street residents filed lawsuits in Sweetwater County District Court in July against two of the state's consulting engineers who had done work for the AML related to the dynamic compaction project.
"If the attorney general chooses not to increase the settlement offers, then we'll have the [new inspection] reports to take to court," she said.
Contact southwest Wyoming bureau reporter Jeff Gearino at (307) 875-5359 or gearino@tribcsp
By JEFF GEARINO - Southwest Wyoming bureau | Posted: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:00 am
ROCK SPRINGS -- "Tree Street" residents are brimming with hope now that engineering teams have completed reinspections of the damage to their homes caused by a controversial 2007 subsidence project.
More than a dozen residents in the downtown Rock Springs neighborhood have been battling the state over the new inspections after rejecting Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg's first settlement offer in 2008 to repair damages.
Homeowners contend the state's first offers were way too low to adequately pay for much-needed repairs.
The reinspections wrapped up Friday and will serve as the basis for new settlement offers from the attorney general. Tree Street homeowners hope the next offers will more fairly compensate them for damage repairs.
"It took two years to get them here ... and I think we all breathed a sigh of relief" when the inspections were completed, Tree Street spokeswoman Becky Kelley said.
"I honestly think there will be some good reports coming back," she said.
Kelley said the engineers looked 14 homes, a church and an apartment complex during the week-long inspections that began May 3.
"These engineers seemed to have it together ... they're known for this kind of work," Kelley said. "So now we sit back and wait to see what happens next."
State officials contracted with J.A. Cesare and Associates of Centennial, Colo., last month to perform a second round of engineering inspections.
The Wyoming Legislature approved a budget amendment this past session that directed $120,000 for the hiring of a qualified structural engineer to perform the new damage assessments.
Fair compensation
The Tree Street homes were damaged during the mine subsidence project that was conducted by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's Abandoned Mine Lands Division beginning in late July 2007.
The project aimed to free vacant lands for new housing on a nearby tract of land that had been previously precluded for development because of past mine subsidence issues.
At the city's request, the state devised a reclamation plan that included the use of a pilot subsidence technique known as dynamic compaction.
For three weeks, state contractors dropped 25- and 35-ton weights several thousand times on the tract to collapse the old underground mine voids.
But soon after, Tree Street residents began complaining about major damage to homes, foundations, fences, decks, driveways, windows, doors, floors and other areas.
The state and DEQ officials have maintained the offers should fairly compensate homeowners for damage from the dynamic compaction portion of the project.
State officials said a lack of baseline information about homes and buildings surrounding the project site made it difficult for the first engineering inspections conducted in 2008 to discern what was damage from the dynamic compaction and what was damage that was to be expected from normal subsidence in the neighborhood.
Kelley said homeowners have not discounted further legal action if the new settlement offers fail to adequately pay for the repairs of damaged homes.
Attorneys for the Tree Street residents filed lawsuits in Sweetwater County District Court in July against two of the state's consulting engineers who had done work for the AML related to the dynamic compaction project.
"If the attorney general chooses not to increase the settlement offers, then we'll have the [new inspection] reports to take to court," she said.
Contact southwest Wyoming bureau reporter Jeff Gearino at (307) 875-5359 or gearino@tribcsp
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