Gretchen arrived early, but they started even earlier. That’s right, once again the Lowndes County Commission started a meeting before the advertised time. None of the names of prospective appointees to four different boards were listed in the agenda, and many of them didn’t bother to show up. Nor do we know what’s in the […]
While /the grid power was out during and after the March F2 tornado (F3 in Lanier County), the lights at our place never blinked, because we have solar panels and batteries. George Mokray has a video that expands on that point. Solar IS Civil Defense—what we are all supposed to have on hand in case […]
Here are videos of the entire “first annual Valdosta-Lowndes Governmental Leadership Meeting” that was held 6:30 PM 29 March 2012 in the Lowndes High School Lecture Hall. Here’s the announcement. The meeting was introduced by Dr. Steve Smith, Superintendent, Lowndes County Schools. Lowndes County Schools had a written position statement, with everything from a broad […]
Here are videos of the entire 13 March 2012 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission (LCC). See separate items on the appointment of Sheila Cook to the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases Region Four Planning Board and “We expect you to run a clean, quiet establishment” —Ashley Paulk. Other notable […]
The tornado was an F2 in Lowndes County and an F3 in Lanier. It went west to east, wrote the NWS in Tallahassee. The pictures we posted that day were apparently where it first touched down, and even then it ripped limbs off of trees and broke some off and threw them. According to the […]
Received 17 February. -jsq My name is Sharon Flory and I am the Sales Representative for Alert Works Products, the company who was working with Lowndes County to distribute roughly 3,500 weather radios to the community. After working for about 8 months with Ashley Tye we were both ecstatic when the grant came through only […]
Found on the Lowndes County government website: Hazard Mitigation Public Hearing (10/17/2011) PUBLIC HEARING ON HAZARD MITIGATION MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011 6:00 P.M. ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 327 N. ASHLEY STREET COMMISSION CHAMBERS – 2ND FLOOR For more information please contact EMA Director, Ashley Tye, at 671-2790. SO I called Ashley Tye, who said:
This is what NOAA Weather Radio would tell you right now. I know this stuff because a friend called and told me to check on the Internet. But people who can’t afford $21 for a radio don’t have Internet connections; some don’t have telephones. When there’s severe weather frequently telephones don’t work, either. The red […]
Are NOAA Weather Radios “wasteful spending”? We’ve already seen staff present the case for about 5,000 NOAA Weather Radios at $21.50 each, paid for out of grant money. They made that case at the 8:30AM 7 Feb 2011 Lowndes County Commission Work Session. At the regular session the next day (5:30 PM Tuesday 8 Feb […]
We’ve already heard about NOAA Weather Radios from two different citizens, Nolen Cox and Ken Klanicki. What are they talking about? As usual, much of the discussion was in the work session (8:30 AM Monday 7 Feb 2011), available here in two parts. In Part 1 staff talks about buying about 5,000 NOAA weather radios […]