Thursday, September 30, 2010
Just updated
Some time as gone by since my last post. I have been busy tracking my pain and keeping my family’s medical problems on the up side. Jenni had another KIDNEY STONE it seems that the stone that had been lodged in her kidney decided this would be the time to “go on the move”. She had another harrowing trip to the ER which expressed itself by the usual vomiting and demanding something for pain. A few days rest and the pains have gone whether she passed the stone is up for discussion only time will tell if the journey of Jenni’s kidney stone is over. Brian has been experiencing rashes and some general being uncomfortableness since moving into his apartment in Philly but he is dealing with them as they come along with reviewing his tetanus shot status which is he is up to date on all his shots. My Dad had a flare up of his “4th of July injury of ‘09” just on a different spot Carl has been doing the changing of the bandage. I have had a reoccurrence of shingles only this time it is on my face- a dot on my nose with pain radiating under my left eye area. I laughed when I received my diagnosis because it was just the icing on the cake of all the ridiculous illnesses we have experienced. Now Glenn has had a normal problem meaning that he had a double knee replacement surgery and appears to be doing well. Gary could not let Glenn up stage him so he twisted his knee coming up stairs, the doctor told him after doing X-rays that he has arthritis and the twist aggravated it. Gary will just have to take it easy; he is back to work now.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Very Strong Winds...
aired on 6pm ABC local news
WNEP
Severe Weather Claims Two Lives
By Jim Hamill
9:58 PM EDT, September 22, 2010
Deadly storms raced through our area Wednesday afternoon. Lycoming County was particularly hit hard by the storms.
The fierce storm rolled through the Muncy area causing utter destruction to homes,a church and worse yet took two lives.
According to state police, two men were killed, James Stoltzfus, 70, of Watsontown and John Herzog Sr. from Rochester, New York. Both men died when a massive tree crushed the truck as they drove out of Muncy Borough in torrential downpours and swirling winds. They have not been identified.
It was wall to wall destruction throughout the Muncy area. One final summer thunderstorm tore century old trees from their roots and with deadly consequences.
Rebecca Noviella Pepper's parents weren't home at the time. Their backyard, however, was turned into a mess of tree limbs and roots.
"The backyard looks like a mine hole that everyone of their large trees has come down and miraculously has not hit any of their buildings or the house behind them," said Pepper.
Closer to downtown Muncy downed trees narrowly missed Brandon Lesko as he was driving in the storm.
"You couldn't see anything around you, because the rain was so thick. Then the one tree fell, luckily I missed that one. I didn't see the one farther down fall, then I stopped just in time to miss this one," said Brandon Lesko of Hughesville.
Many homes took quite a beating and the roof of the First United Methodist Church was blown off.
"We have damage to the ceilings, tiles, carpet and contents inside," said Harold Geise a church trustee.
Church members showed Newswatch 16 the water-soaked Sunday school section of the church as they worked to salvage items from the damaging storm.
"It is fierce when you see the big hunks of steel that are scattered up the field here from this roof," said Geise.
The power is still out to many homes throughout the Muncy area. PPl says it could take several hours still to clean up the mess and restore power.
WNEP
Severe Weather Claims Two Lives
By Jim Hamill
9:58 PM EDT, September 22, 2010
Deadly storms raced through our area Wednesday afternoon. Lycoming County was particularly hit hard by the storms.
The fierce storm rolled through the Muncy area causing utter destruction to homes,a church and worse yet took two lives.
According to state police, two men were killed, James Stoltzfus, 70, of Watsontown and John Herzog Sr. from Rochester, New York. Both men died when a massive tree crushed the truck as they drove out of Muncy Borough in torrential downpours and swirling winds. They have not been identified.
It was wall to wall destruction throughout the Muncy area. One final summer thunderstorm tore century old trees from their roots and with deadly consequences.
Rebecca Noviella Pepper's parents weren't home at the time. Their backyard, however, was turned into a mess of tree limbs and roots.
"The backyard looks like a mine hole that everyone of their large trees has come down and miraculously has not hit any of their buildings or the house behind them," said Pepper.
Closer to downtown Muncy downed trees narrowly missed Brandon Lesko as he was driving in the storm.
"You couldn't see anything around you, because the rain was so thick. Then the one tree fell, luckily I missed that one. I didn't see the one farther down fall, then I stopped just in time to miss this one," said Brandon Lesko of Hughesville.
Many homes took quite a beating and the roof of the First United Methodist Church was blown off.
"We have damage to the ceilings, tiles, carpet and contents inside," said Harold Geise a church trustee.
Church members showed Newswatch 16 the water-soaked Sunday school section of the church as they worked to salvage items from the damaging storm.
"It is fierce when you see the big hunks of steel that are scattered up the field here from this roof," said Geise.
The power is still out to many homes throughout the Muncy area. PPl says it could take several hours still to clean up the mess and restore power.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Eagles Mere- Down with the Gas Company
Rural Pennsylvania town fights big gas
By Jon Hurdle Jon Hurdle
Thu Sep 9, 3:11 pm ET
.EAGLES MERE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – In the rush to develop America's biggest new source of domestic energy, one community is fighting to protect its rural way of life from the environmental strains that accompany shale gas drilling.
Residents of this wealthy north-central Pennsylvania vacation community are refusing to lease their land to energy companies scrambling to grab a piece of the Marcellus Shale, a massive natural gas deposit believed to contain enough of the fuel to satisfy total U.S. natural gas demand for 20 years.
Most of the doctors, lawyers and executives who own homes in the resort about 150 miles northwest of Philadelphia are unmoved by offers of lease payments of at least $2,500 an acre, or by the promise of royalties on gas harvested from what is expected to become America's most productive shale field.
Other U.S. communities have spoken up about the deforestation, air pollution, truck traffic and what they consider ground water contamination that have accompanied shale gas development elsewhere. Residents of Eagles Mere are seeking to stop it from happening in their backyard.
Eagles Mere differs from some other rural communities where economic hardship, particularly among farmers, makes it more likely that landowners accept checks from the energy firms.
"The overwhelming majority of landowners have no desire to lease their land," said Geoff Stoudt, a lawyer and president of the Eagles Mere Association, which owns 220 acres including the lake around which the town is built and its shoreline.
The association this summer turned down a lease offer from Chesapeake Energy Corp, which has sunk 186 Marcellus wells statewide -- most of them in neighboring Bradford County -- and wants to expand production southwards into Sullivan County surrounding Eagles Mere.
Chesapeake spokesman David Spigelmyer denies the company is aggressively seeking additional acreage in Eagles Mere.
But Nancy Liebert, spokeswoman for the Protect Eagles Mere Alliance, said at least 20 landowners and two community groups have recently declined the company's lease offers.
Williams Companies Inc is also seeking to lease land at Eagles Mere and has signed leases in surrounding towns, residents said.
SHARP REJECTIONS
Like some other rural communities in shale-gas areas, Eagles Mere residents say they fear becoming an industrial zone like the northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dimock. Residents there have sued Cabot Oil & Gas, saying it has contaminated water wells, sickened children and hurt real estate prices.
Drillers say fluid containing toxic chemicals -- used in a technique called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- cannot contaminate aquifers because the two are separated by steel and concrete casings. They also argue that the chemicals are used thousands of feet (meters) below drinking water sources -- too far away to contaminate the water.
Hydraulic fracturing is used for extracting gas from shale about a mile underground.
Over the next decade, the industry is expected to drill at least 30,000 Marcellus wells across Pennsylvania, according to a recent study by Pennsylvania State University, compared with the current total of about 1,800.
Gas company representatives approaching Eagles Mere home owners are likely to be sharply rejected, residents said.
Gail Meyer, a retired school teacher, said she was telephoned in late August by a Chesapeake official who asked if she would lease her land -- less than an acre -- for gas drilling.
"I told him, 'Absolutely not,' and hung up," Meyer said.
Such a lease, Meyer said, would endanger an idyllic rural enclave where her great-grandmother -- whose portrait dominates Meyer's living room -- built a house in 1905 and where her family has spent summers for six generations.
Meyer, 71, is one of about 200 year-round residents, a population that swells to some 3,000 in the summer months when people enjoy the community's lake, where swimming, sailing and kayaking are permitted but power boats and jet-skis are not.
The mile-wide lake is fed only by underground springs, which residents fear could be contaminated by the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
If lake and well water became tainted, property prices would plunge and the community that began in the late 19th century would be finished, residents argue.
The few landowners who have signed leases have generated anger among the majority who have not, residents said. They are now waiting for the local country club to decide whether to lease, and some have threatened to resign if it does.
"There are some things that are just not worth risking," said Bob Spahr, a physician who has been coming to Eagles Mere since 1994 and is now a year-round resident. "The Marcellus Shale is so huge, and there are other opportunities."
(Editing by Mark Egan and Will Dunham)
By Jon Hurdle Jon Hurdle
Thu Sep 9, 3:11 pm ET
.EAGLES MERE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – In the rush to develop America's biggest new source of domestic energy, one community is fighting to protect its rural way of life from the environmental strains that accompany shale gas drilling.
Residents of this wealthy north-central Pennsylvania vacation community are refusing to lease their land to energy companies scrambling to grab a piece of the Marcellus Shale, a massive natural gas deposit believed to contain enough of the fuel to satisfy total U.S. natural gas demand for 20 years.
Most of the doctors, lawyers and executives who own homes in the resort about 150 miles northwest of Philadelphia are unmoved by offers of lease payments of at least $2,500 an acre, or by the promise of royalties on gas harvested from what is expected to become America's most productive shale field.
Other U.S. communities have spoken up about the deforestation, air pollution, truck traffic and what they consider ground water contamination that have accompanied shale gas development elsewhere. Residents of Eagles Mere are seeking to stop it from happening in their backyard.
Eagles Mere differs from some other rural communities where economic hardship, particularly among farmers, makes it more likely that landowners accept checks from the energy firms.
"The overwhelming majority of landowners have no desire to lease their land," said Geoff Stoudt, a lawyer and president of the Eagles Mere Association, which owns 220 acres including the lake around which the town is built and its shoreline.
The association this summer turned down a lease offer from Chesapeake Energy Corp, which has sunk 186 Marcellus wells statewide -- most of them in neighboring Bradford County -- and wants to expand production southwards into Sullivan County surrounding Eagles Mere.
Chesapeake spokesman David Spigelmyer denies the company is aggressively seeking additional acreage in Eagles Mere.
But Nancy Liebert, spokeswoman for the Protect Eagles Mere Alliance, said at least 20 landowners and two community groups have recently declined the company's lease offers.
Williams Companies Inc is also seeking to lease land at Eagles Mere and has signed leases in surrounding towns, residents said.
SHARP REJECTIONS
Like some other rural communities in shale-gas areas, Eagles Mere residents say they fear becoming an industrial zone like the northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dimock. Residents there have sued Cabot Oil & Gas, saying it has contaminated water wells, sickened children and hurt real estate prices.
Drillers say fluid containing toxic chemicals -- used in a technique called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- cannot contaminate aquifers because the two are separated by steel and concrete casings. They also argue that the chemicals are used thousands of feet (meters) below drinking water sources -- too far away to contaminate the water.
Hydraulic fracturing is used for extracting gas from shale about a mile underground.
Over the next decade, the industry is expected to drill at least 30,000 Marcellus wells across Pennsylvania, according to a recent study by Pennsylvania State University, compared with the current total of about 1,800.
Gas company representatives approaching Eagles Mere home owners are likely to be sharply rejected, residents said.
Gail Meyer, a retired school teacher, said she was telephoned in late August by a Chesapeake official who asked if she would lease her land -- less than an acre -- for gas drilling.
"I told him, 'Absolutely not,' and hung up," Meyer said.
Such a lease, Meyer said, would endanger an idyllic rural enclave where her great-grandmother -- whose portrait dominates Meyer's living room -- built a house in 1905 and where her family has spent summers for six generations.
Meyer, 71, is one of about 200 year-round residents, a population that swells to some 3,000 in the summer months when people enjoy the community's lake, where swimming, sailing and kayaking are permitted but power boats and jet-skis are not.
The mile-wide lake is fed only by underground springs, which residents fear could be contaminated by the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
If lake and well water became tainted, property prices would plunge and the community that began in the late 19th century would be finished, residents argue.
The few landowners who have signed leases have generated anger among the majority who have not, residents said. They are now waiting for the local country club to decide whether to lease, and some have threatened to resign if it does.
"There are some things that are just not worth risking," said Bob Spahr, a physician who has been coming to Eagles Mere since 1994 and is now a year-round resident. "The Marcellus Shale is so huge, and there are other opportunities."
(Editing by Mark Egan and Will Dunham)
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Another Odd Diagnosis
I woke up last Thursday with a red spot on my nose, a severe headache, face pain, and neck pain. I have dealt with pain before but this pain was on the left side of my face of course it occurred going into a holiday weekend. So over that weekend I had left and right sided pain and I could not for the life of me figure out what it could be. The pain started to diminish as the week progressed and I could not get an appointment with my GP so I road it out for a week before getting a diagnosis. I even thought of cancelling my appointment but Gary said “you always do that never follow up – trying to down play your health” and he was right. I tend to think I must be making too much of this or that or I’ll wait because it will just go away. Finally I had an appointment with my GP on Thursday morning and she really surprised me with something very obvious: Shingles or Trigeminal Neuralgia. I started laughing of course yes that makes perfect sense how I could be so narrow minded. I did have Shingles once before following a very stressful situation I got myself into. Long story short a hiker’s partner had fallen off the rock face at the Delaware Gap steep cliffs by Stroudsburg. After being flagged down and begged by the climber’s partner I climbed the mountain to see if I could assist. Unfortunately the man had died before I made it to the top but just a few weeks following the climb I broke out in Shingles. I need to find another way to reduce my stress level rather than holding in or bottling up everything that causes me distress. I am on a Shingle medication, going to see the eye doctor to make sure there is nothing affecting my sight and making sure it does not get worse or turn out to be Trigeminal Neuralgia
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Dad's 90th birthday
The family gathered at Carl's house for Dad's 90th birthday. Luckily we would get together around this time of year because James's birthday is on September 4th then Dad's is on the 5th. James sometimes makes it in for his birthday but our celebration of Dad's carries on. We had very good food, sang him the birthday song, and the evening was finished off by Kathryn going for a motorcycle ride with Paul.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)