[Rhodes22-list] January 2009 - Is there still a Rhodes 22 List?

[Rik Sandberg]

Brad,

Hmmm .... Bet the bridge up at Kentucky Dam will get finished now. Might 
be the dumbest thing I've ever seen .... speaking of bridges to no 
where, but the project is started and has been on hold lately due to 
lack of funds.

Even though the bridge is stupid in my mind, when it is done it will be 
possible for the project to extend the locks in Kentucky Dam from 600 to 
1200 feet to begin. I guess it'll be nice to have that done as it'll 
most certainly cut down on barge congestion waiting to lock through to 
the Ohio River. Our marina is about a 1/2-3/4  mile above the dam.

If I were king though, all of this crazy spending would grind to a halt 
until we could start seeing some reasonable deficit numbers. But, (sigh) 
I don't suppose the gubmint will be happy 'til they've inflated all of a 
guys retirement savings away to nothing.

Rik

"There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe." ... Robert Heinlein



Brad Haslett wrote:
> John,
>
> There may be some real opportunity for those of us who sail on Corps.
> of Engineer lakes, even those who sail on coastal waters.  The stuff
> that gets funded first will be the stuff that's already been
> engineered and has the environmental impact studies done.  Every local
> burg and 'gubment' entity has a project or two sitting on the shelf
> waiting for funding - whether it needs to be built or not.  My boat is
> moored at a TN State Park - I don't know what they've got on their
> wish list but I bet they get what they ask for.
>
> Here's an example of what was built during the 30's -
>
> http://www.timberlinelodge.com/
>
> I'm not sure any of this makes sense but then that's not the point.
>
> Brad
>
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:31 AM, John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com> wrote:
>   
>> At 04:34 AM 1/1/2009 -0800, brad haslett wrote:
>>     
>>> Happy 2009! Doesn't every family fight around the holidays? This is
>>> going to be a great year - I can smell it!  Every man, woman, and
>>> child in the US is about to go in debt several hundred thousand
>>> dollars whether they want to or not.  And what do they
>>> get?  Construction projects!  Every little one-horse town in America
>>> has a Christmas list and the sillier the project the sooner it gets
>>> funded.  Yehaw! Dust off them backhoes and trackhoes and skid-steers
>>> and dozers boys.  The manna is about to fall from the heavens!
>>>       
>> You got that right!  We have a client who is in the erosion control
>> business and their main customer is the state DOT.  They are looking
>> forward to a busy 2009.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> John Lock
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
>> Lake Sinclair, GA
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
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