Semi loaded with wind turbine equipment blocks traffic today in Mason City
From NIT reader JoAnn Hardy:
A wind tower truck loaded with a piece of a wind tower was mistakenly led into town by his pilot car. Old GPS. Giant load attracted attention. DOT weighed truck. Too heavy for streets. They pulled him off 122 at Monroe. Then decided the best way out of town was back the way he came…west on 122. So they had him back up through the intersection at 122 and Monroe and then go back west. The overpass bridge is lower on the north end so traffic was stopped and truck went west in the east bound lanes and then drove over the media to get back in west bound lanes.
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Peter L
June 21, 2012 at 6:04 am
Opinions such as Watchdog’s are dying fast as old curmudgeon republicans are replaced by smarter youth who grasp wind’s use.
Anonymous
June 23, 2012 at 10:56 pm
you don’t have a clue.
Watchdog
June 21, 2012 at 1:43 am
Common Sense has it correct. The whole green energy movement is a fraud and the taxpayers are being ripped off. People like Peter L. are so dumb downed that they believe all the bullshit that the politicians and left wing loons are telling us.
The real truth is we are running low on Carbon Dioxide in the air and burning fossil fuels has noting to do do with global warming. There is ample proof of this but the left wing nuts won’t get it through their heads that they have been duped by democratic big money scam artists.
The taxpayers pay for the wind turbines with TAX CREDITS. The cost per kilowatt to produce electricity with a wind mill is over 30 cents per kilowatt.
Before the era of wind turbines we were paying about 7 cents per kilowatt. Now we are paying about 14 cents per kilowatt, and our bills have doubled. In a couple of years we will be paying about 40 cents per kilowatt and will see our electric bills almost triple.
Wind energy is a scam just like ethanol and bio-diesel. To bad the stupid politicians have swallowed the BS and got in bed with this whole global warming fraud. Now it is costing the taxpayers dearly on many levels.
Your Mom
June 21, 2012 at 10:02 am
We’re “running low” on carbon dioxide?!
Peter L
June 21, 2012 at 11:32 am
Watchdog must be nostalgic for the “good old days” of the seventies when the auto exhaust turned the snowbanks black on the sides of the roads.
Trucker Dave
June 26, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Vehicle emissions do NOT turn the snowbanks of the ditches black – WIND EROSION off the fields do.
Farmers have reduced fall tillage, but the banks still turn black from the topsoil.
XDM Owner and Operator
June 20, 2012 at 11:10 pm
“truck went west in the east bound lanes and then drove over the media” ALL OF THEM????OHHHHH if only this were true….
Peter Lagios
June 20, 2012 at 10:25 pm
It seems to me that it was more trouble to have them back up and turn around, then to just escort them out of town. Bad call on the MCPD’s part. And to all the people out there badmouthing wind turbines I can say that I truly wish I didn’t have to share a country with you…I really do. The accident of birth places me with you though…(shaking my head).
Anonymous
June 21, 2012 at 9:16 am
They had to turn around it’s the only bridge it would fit under
Observer
June 24, 2012 at 7:53 am
Peter, it was not a bad call, but the most proper considering the situation. MC PD understand the clearance issues, and had to route that movement back to where it came, just as it has done several times before.
However, you will not take my word fo it, so I encourage you to grab your yardstick, and go measure clearances going east for your own understanding. Come back and report your findings, then criticize MC PD if you can.
common sense
June 20, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Wind turbines are just like ethanol. They both are runing our landscape, a burden on consumers and taxpayers, and wouldn’t even be able to exist without goverment assistance!
Agree
June 20, 2012 at 8:32 pm
I very much agree. Thanks for the post.
Peter L
June 20, 2012 at 10:21 pm
If you truly represent status quo “common sense” for America’s thinking, then I’m jumping off the first bridge I see. Wind turbines are the most brilliant and natural form of energy production man has ever known. Only a stupid, stupid pettifog of a man would make a comment such as you did. It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant and pig-headed humans can be.
common sense
June 21, 2012 at 5:56 am
Well Peter, as some one who works in the power industry and has first hand knoladge of how much these thing cost to build, maintain, and how extremly over priced the electricity is that they produce maybee you should jump of a bridge if you cant see through all the propaganda
anonymous
June 22, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Farmers here would no longer exist without government assistance. The prices would be so high we would be looking around the globe to buy cheap food from terrorists just like we do with oil!
Too Bad
June 20, 2012 at 7:34 pm
The D.O.T. was the winner here. Fines totaled $7100. That’s to bad..
Observer
June 20, 2012 at 7:04 pm
I find it very hard to belive that some map maker has not updated their maps for the past 18 years. I think the pilot needs to get a better system, and data provider.
Several years ago, we had the same incident with a turbine blade, same result, go back where you came from.
assholes!
June 20, 2012 at 6:45 pm
i hate those wind turbines.
Anonymous
June 20, 2012 at 7:05 pm
You are the asshole, my friend…. those windtowers are the future of our energy supply!! get with the program.. its just too bad the pilot car couldn’t direct this poor driver a little better!
IKNOWBETTER
June 20, 2012 at 7:36 pm
If those wind turbines actually provided the energy to the areas they’re located instead of say Chicago, it might be nice to respect them. Until then, they’re taking up precious corn land.
Anonymous
June 20, 2012 at 7:38 pm
EXACTLY! The semi drivers handling those monsters are not local drivers and are flying solely on the pilot to direct them through traffic and towns.
Anonymous
June 20, 2012 at 8:08 pm
The so called program is doing nothing but increasing our energy costs and our taxes.