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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

School Buses Were Made For Roads Like Hickory Mill Road





You see Folks, before Salisbury News arrived, you were a simple, single telephone call to the WCBOE. You made your complaint and that was the end of it. Today, we provide a whole new venue towards accountability. We create the way for everyone to finally SEE what's really going on out there and place those in charge far more accountable than ever before.

The last three or four Posts tell the truth. They tell a story the Board of Ed didn't want you to see or know. County Council Members get on PAC 14 today and thank Public Works for all their dedicated work in doing such a fine job on County Roads, yet none of them were out there doing what I was doing today, checking the roads out.

Many of these roads have never seen a County Plow. They were cleared by Farmers trying to simply help their neighbors get down the road in difficult times. Are they passable with a 4x4 vehicle, absolutely. Are they passable to a large school bus, absolutely not.

So do not buy into the roads being clear enough for your children to go to school. The pictures do not lie.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

County Councel too busy patting themselves on the back for that great buy of a parking lot!! Joe Holloway....where are you? You come from back creek Wicomico! Have a voice on the safety of our kids!!! Be their voice!

Anonymous said...

Joe
I wonder if ANYONE has checked the roofs on any of these schools?
Look at all the other places with flat roofs that had problems. Are our children safe while they are at school?

Anonymous said...

Hi Joe
Nice pictures of the problem but
this is a photo of Little Lane
not Hickory Mill.

Anonymous said...

Having schools open but buses not being able to pick up the kids--priceless!

Anonymous said...

oh hell no, the roads are God awful, still

Anonymous said...

Joe, you are wrong. They have all seen plows. Many multiple times. Funny thing about that thing called wind. It blows snow across the road. That is why many have seen plows multiple, multiple,........multiple times.

Anonymous said...

The school roofs were fine. There were people on them last week clearing them off. All schools were checked by the BOE and other inspectors and deemed safe.

Anonymous said...

Yes, this is Little Lane, which you get to from Hickory Mill.

Anonymous said...

I live on Hickory Mill and our road is just like Little Lane and Adkins Road. You could not tell where the farm land, road, or driveway begins, It was all the same height. Roads were a real mess this morning. It was Saturday before we saw a snow plow. Farmers were trying to help their neighbors up and down the road.

Anonymous said...

joe, i have been studying the snow problem and have finally come up with a solution. i will apply for a gummit grant and i will breed a chicken that will eat snow. then ill get the politicians to pass a law mandating that all chicken growers grow them. then when it snows all we have to do is turn all the chickens loose and they will eat all the snow and the roads will be clear. does this sound like a plan or not. thanks sjd

joealbero said...

SJD, the coolest pary would be that all the chicken poop would melt and just go away.

Anonymous said...

if the kids were still out of school they would be at the movies and mall. so not like they are trapped inside.if they can make it out for fun, then they can make it out for school

Anonymous said...

joe i'm a truck driver at night and these roads a bad some are plowed and at the last minute your on ice and the tracks will pull you around my truck is fully load and still i get pulled like a small car becarful on these back roads and for delaware back roads maryland did a better job

Anonymous said...

Dont plow the roads. Let the "little people" hurt. Thats how you get the tax cap gone.

Anonymous said...

If the children are allowed to be free for too long, then the mind control techniques used by the school begin to lose value.

We must control the lives of the children for their own good.

If not, they will not realize that their job is to become credit worthy consumers.