Billie Blair
Pratt Tribune
Ongoing conversations about the construction of the Pratt Safety Building throughout the month March for Pratt County Commissioners included a change in the footings, some concerns about the gas line, and setting up a meeting with the architect and construction company.
Kelly McMurphy, Landmark Architect, did report a savings of $346,599 due to changes made in the HVAC system. He also reported that there would be progress meetings with email reports to commissioners Tom Jones, Rick Shriver and Dwight Adams every two weeks.
Actions taken by the commission during the March meetings include:
· On March 1, Mike Tibbetts, Communications, reported that the repeater had been moved from the DR Tower to the Pratt Well Tower. He reported about other possible available towers. He was instructed to get bids from tower owners and report back.
Really emphasize and increase awareness. they re touring danger zones, bracing for el nino. what we can do a better job at, we can all prepare and take care of each other to minimize losses and damages. here s the latest national weather service el nino warning. it continues to reflect warming across the tropical, central and eastern pacific ocean. based on water now 2.4 degrees celsius, the measurement of this el nino is just behind the de stating 1997, 1998 e el nino event. that season, 38 inches of rape, twice the normal average cascaded on to los angeles. now crews are digging out 3300 miles of storm drains. a road supervisor warns when the rains come, stay away from slide zones, especially places stripped of vegetation by recent
Ocean. based on waters now 2 .4 degrees celsius, this el nino is just behind the 1997-1998 e el nino event. that season, 30 inches of rain cascaded on to los angeles. so now county works crews are digging out ahead of el nino, clearing 82,000 catch basins and 3300 miles of storm drains. a road supervisor warns argues stay away of fly zones. a cliff or a mountainside stuck in a mud side during this storm we had heavy storms and people are unaware. they got caught up in heavy mud slides. the national weather service says el ninos usually peak from january to march. but don t be surprised if some super heavy stuff starts to come down in december.
With a crane. we went in and used rock bolts 15 to 40 feet into the rock face and added bolts to the site to try to stabilize everything. while the community is happy that the road is open again, they are also proud. because of the quick thinking and expertise of a road supervisor and a geologist, no one is injured or killed by the rock slide. i get some cold sweats from time to time thinking about all the things that could have gone wrong that day. if i had stopped for coffee, taken a little extra time for lunch before i got out to the site. the timing of everything was such that once i got there, we had time to see what was going on and get everybody out of the way before the slide occurred. had she not been there, those rocks would have come down not just on bill and myself, but everybody that was working that scene, all the tdot crews. it would have been a much, much different story had we have been standing in that same spot.
We went in and used rock bolts 15 to 40 feet into the rock face and added bolts to the site to try to stabilize it. while the community is happy that the road is open again, they are also proud. because of the quick thinking and expertise of a road supervisor and a geologist, no one is injured or killed by the rock slide. i get some cold sweats from time to time thinking of all the things that could have gone wrong that day. if i had stopped for coffee. taken extra time for lunch before i got out to the site. the timing of everything was such that once i got there we had time to see what was going on and get everybody out of the way before the slide occurred. had she not been there those rocks would have come down and not just bill and myself, but everybody that was working that scene, all the tdot crews. it would have been a much different story had we been