Everything You Wanted To Know!

The Columbia Missourian had a great article about the last 19 months after the Taum Sauk event.

BRL News

For the BRL guests that read this blog I wanted you to know that the home of Laurie Mayes burned to the ground last night. We had a very strong electrical storm and lightning hit her home.

Big Step

FERC says its OK to rebuild, now if we can just get the other problems solved. It was 109 here today. What sounded like rain was dead leaves falling off the trees. Six weeks with little rain and very hot temps have made this a summer to remember.

Shut-Ins/Taum Sauk

I spent the weekend moving more stuff to Springfield so I'm just getting back online and just found these two links.

Taum Sauk

Shut-Ins

This week is the last week of the full summer season. With so many schools starting early most of the lodges and campgrounds will be empty next week. The temps have been terrible and this week looks like another hot one. Last Thursday it got to 109 in Peola Valley and we have not had any real rain since late June.

View from the West

Here is a link to an editorial from the Springfield News-Leader about Taum Sauk.

You can't be serious!

Think Lesterville needs to get John Macinroe to start yelling at the Feds.

Taum Sauk Manager

Here is a link about the testimony of David Fitzgerald, manager of the Taum Sauk plant from 1999 to 2002. David and I served on a number of school committees and his son graduated from the Lesterville High School. I found him to be one of the good guys and I'm glad that he was at the plant during this period.

I had a chance to drive up Highway U, the only place where you get a fair view of the Upper Reservoir, and on the SW corner of the reservoir I saw the boom of a very large crane. There are also three large dump trucks making round trips from the plant to some spot north on 21. So construction may not have started, but there is a lot of prep work going on.