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.
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.
you don’t have a clue.
They had to turn around it’s the only bridge it would fit under
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.
We’re “running low” on carbon dioxide?!
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.
“truck went west in the east bound lanes and then drove over the media” ALL OF THEM????OHHHHH if only this were true….
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!
I very much agree. Thanks for the post.
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
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!
The D.O.T. was the winner here. Fines totaled $7100. That’s to bad..
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.
i hate those wind turbines.
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!
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.
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.
The so called program is doing nothing but increasing our energy costs and our taxes.