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Stolen semi-trucks recovered

Stolen semi-trucks recovered

New House

We have a new House in Guide Rock, Nebraska. It's a three bedroom house with large rooms all on one level no basement (yet). I believe my life is changing for the good ( finely), It has a big garage & big back & side yard.




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Flooding in the area of Omaha

We have had a lot of flooding around here. I live in a place were it don't flood but the town park is under water. People with cabins close to the River wasn't as lucky. I added photos in my photo album on WEBSHOTS Check it out. Other than that it sucks around here.

MAY 30, 2010

I'm down in My home Town of Red Cloud Nebraska for the Rose's reunion. I spent the night parked at the park & woke to strong rains & wind it was around 4:15. Talk about a small town no one was on the streets, nothing was open & I could here the birds between the thunder. I'll add more later since it's only 6 now.

Veterans Memorial Bridge

I went to the ribbon cutting of the Veterans Memorial Bridge Today & I enjoyed myself . I need to go to more things on my own if I have too. There were old cars & more old cars there, American legion Riders were the first ones too cross. I'm a veteran I served on the USS Kitty Hawk back in 1979 as I was in the Navy. Here's a few photos I took

Check out all of the ones I toke at Picasa

I will be at the Rose"s Reunion Sunday I'm leaving Saturday night after My wife gets home Going by myself it ought too be fun.

"Badge On Board" Begins

John Potter

Channel 2 News

Semi trucks tip the scales at 80,000 pounds. At 65mph, they need more than a football field to stop. Cars zipping ahead and cutting truckers off is such a big problem here, that "smokey" himself got in the cab. Tuesday, drivers on I-80 didn't know trooper Stan Smith was right behind them, watching. Armed with a 2-way to call in one of the patrol cars along the highway about anyone cutting him off or making other illegal moves.

Bill McCarty sees it all the time. He's been behind the wheel of a semi for 15 years. His pet peeve? As he told us, "You try to leave yourself braking room, somebody slides in, wanting to make a lane change, or think they're going to get a little farther up the road...it takes your comfort zone out." He wants drivers who share the road with the big guys to remember his blind spots...the "no zones." He wants drivers to "look at the trucks...if they can see the driver in the mirrors, the driver can see them. If they can't see the driver, he can't see you."

This is a serious crackdown, addressing the deadly mix of semi-trucks, and car driver aggression and inattention. And there are the truck drivers themselves. This is a business where time is money, with drivers under constant pressure to meet deadlines. Some have sleep deprivation, all of it adding to an unusually high fatal rate involving semis.

Trooper Chuck Allen has been on patrol for 20 years now. He can recall many such tragedies, like "The large truck that rear-ended a Suburban on I-80 in Sparks about 4 years ago, and killing two people in that Suburban, because the driver of the truck wasn't paying attention that day."