July 11 Council meeting

I missed the council meeting on July 11. Not sure when I missed the last one. Planned on being there, but was diverted due to my real job. I was toting generators around Story and Marshall Counties to cell towers that lost power due to the early Monday morning storms. Wow, there was quite the damage to corn fields in Marshall County. As I write this Tuesday evening, 40 hours after the storm, Alliant still has 15000 customers without power.

I was in Slater, Sheldahl, and Alleman this morning. They really got pasted too. Pretty much every house had a pile of branches in their front yard to be picked up. They still had trees in the streets in Sheldahl, and Hiway 69 between Huxley and Alleman was still closed this morning due to a major power line being down. We sure dodged a bullet. Roland's only power outage was along the north side of Maple from Bergen Church to Bear Creek. I think they were without power for about 10 hours or so.

As for the meeting, got some word of what all went on. The key thing was approving final payment for our new street.

As mentioned in earlier posts, I still have some city board positions to fill. If you have an interest, let me know...