It’s just sad to see all the construction and trees being cut down. We will be boycotting this rutters, they’ll never get our money! That intersection is going to be terrible soon. I feel for those who live right around there, bright lights 24/7. Who thought this was a good idea?!
It’s sad to see construction and trees cut down? It’s sad that mentalities like this exist. Trees are easily replaced, and be thankful you live in a country that still has enough capital to invest in new business even in a down economy.
For anyone who doesn’t want to see any growth in the future, here are some options:
1. Continue to put politicians in office who will tax away as much private capital as possible, therefore reducing the amount of growth in our economy.
2. Do not invest in anything, and promote lack of confidence in our economy so that the recession will be long and hopefully take down more businesses that would otherwise grow soon and tear down a tree.
3. Move to some poor African nation where there’s not enough food and there is no incentive to develop a business, but that’s a good thing because there’s no construction! They also have a more fair health care system since nobody has any.
4. Campaign for mandatory abortions after your first child to get the virulent human population under control. No more people = no more growth!
:-D
There are quite a few issues that go along with construction and new development - traffic, emissions, water & heavy metal runoff, light & noise pollution, soil erosion, habitat destruction etc. Yes, trees can be replaced, but they often aren’t and it takes time for them to grow. There are ways to reduce the impact of construction and development but that doesn’t always happen. Revitalization & redevelopment of shopping locations within walking distance of homes is promising, but things like zoning and rent could be issues.
It’s a shame that we tend to develop additional properties when there are still empty storefronts in the town. I don’t have an issue with economic growth and new small business, but I do have an issue with the way that it often occurs. Summers took the old antique shop and turned it into a thriving small business - I wish that could happen for some of the other empty locations.
… Summers took the old antique shop and turned it into a thriving small business - I wish that could happen for some of the other empty locations.
I understand your points, and yes, Summers is an excellent model of a successful small business. It would be great to see the next Summers-like business in town, but it takes a special person to have that vision and then see the pieces fall into place. Of course we’ll look at Summers much more fondly than a gas station, but I think both can succeed and hopefully do.
Yeah, when I was coming back from Home Depot they had one of the backhoes moving the pile around and smoke was coming off of it. I mean, it was bound to happen, sitting there for a week. Imagine if it had been in the 90’s all week. I noticed that they began hauling it away today though!
The mulch was not on fire - that was steam rising, not smoke. See the other thread on bonfires for more detail. We conducted training burns on the sheds out back and used it to teach our younger members about fire behavior. They got to witness how a fire builds up quickly in a structure, flashover effects, different types of smoke, hoseline operations, etc. Most importantly we also taught them about safety items like collapse zones, protecting exposures, protecting the apparatus.
While always sad to see old structures/architecture/history go up in smoke, we can’t always stop progress so hopefully it’s demise will be put to good use as a training tool for our current and future fire fighters. While we won’t burn the main house, we are also using that for MAYDAY training and teaching many fire fighters how to call the MAYDAY if something bad happens, plus how to work on getting out of those situations.
The mulch was not on fire - that was steam rising, not smoke. See the other thread on bonfires for more detail. We conducted training burns on the sheds out back and used it to teach our younger members about fire behavior. They got to witness how a fire builds up quickly in a structure, flashover effects, different types of smoke, hoseline operations, etc. Most importantly we also taught them about safety items like collapse zones, protecting exposures, protecting the apparatus.
While always sad to see old structures/architecture/history go up in smoke, we can’t always stop progress so hopefully it’s demise will be put to good use as a training tool for our current and future fire fighters. While we won’t burn the main house, we are also using that for MAYDAY training and teaching many fire fighters how to call the MAYDAY if something bad happens, plus how to work on getting out of those situations.
I’m glad you were able to use the old buildings for training, if they’re getting torn down.
As for the mulch, I saw a fire truck there and they had a backhoe moving it around. It looked ‘steamy/smoky’, and since I know mulch can combust, I thought it might’ve been or almost been on fire.
We happen to be at the site on Tuesday doing training when we noticed “steam” coming from the pile. I requested the contractor to come out and move the pile around to make sure that there was no fire within the pile which there was none.
We happen to be at the site on Tuesday doing training when we noticed “steam” coming from the pile. I requested the contractor to come out and move the pile around to make sure that there was no fire within the pile which there was none.
Gotcha - good catch Chief! Better to catch it before it became a problem!
Hey! A positive about the local excavation site. I recieved permission from the company doing the excavation for my scouts to visit the site to view the different layers of soil, and my other son is planning on doing a school project on the construction....unless he dosn’t get his butt moving on it since it is due the begining of October but that is another story....it can be a learning experience after all
