Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Willington Flooding
Sorry, I have not added to the blog recently but I have been making up for a couple of lost workdays due to last weekend's flooding. Willington, along with the rest of the region, probably experienced a 25 year flood. It damaged many roads on the north end of Town especially Turnpike Road and Turnpike Road Extension, Potter School Road, Mihaliak Road Extension, Liska Road, Michalec Road and Lustig Road. The Public Works Department responded late Friday night and the full extent of the problems became evident by early Saturday morning. Roaring Brook, the Fenton River and the Willimantic River all overflowed their banks. The Willimantic River caused the most problems to our residents by flooding three homes on Route 74 and doing extensive damage to the homes and vehicles. Many thanks should go out to the three members of the road crew who worked all weekend, the responding members of the Fire Departments for helping to evacuate people and pumping out basements and to Knight Construction and Hipsky Construction for responding to the call for help.
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Did anyone notice that the Chronicle gave "Needles" to Mr. Eldrege in today's paper regarding this topic?
Leave it to the A Sentinel Party to attempt to politcize the road crew and some minor flooding in town. Shame on Mre Patton and his Sentinnel cronies for exploiting what should be a non partisan issue.
"Many thanks should go out to the three members of the road crew who worked all weekend, the responding members of the Fire Departments for helping to evacuate people and pumping out basements and to Knight Construction and Hipsky Construction for responding to the call for help."
That certainly sounds very political to me. If it was to be political, Mr. Patton could have taken credit for putting the Town's needs in front of his own needs. He could have been applauded for stepping in and taking charge when it needed to be done. He could have chosen to look the other way but did not. When the call came for help from the Public Works, Mr. Patton was there. He did not take a swipe at anybody for passing out political flyers while everyone was working. The thing is, he didn't bring any of that up. He simply and basically thanked the road crew and contractors for a job well done. Maybe not everything is poltically motivated.
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