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Stanley Avenue poker hands site location in Andalusia
It was in fact one of Mahon's stores, the that many residents had complained about.
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Even though the storm has passed and electricity poker hands site has been restored to almost all residents, representatives of a local nursing home inundated the poker hands site mayor and Andalusia City Councilmen with questions about poker hands site why it took so long for poker hands site power to be restored to their facility.
Andalusia poker hands site Health Care, with a poker hands site population of 36 elderly poker hands site residents, went without poker hands site power from early last poker hands site Thursday morning until poker hands site Friday afternoon.
Andalusia poker hands site Mayor Earl Johnson
Sara poker hands site McAnulty, whose mother resides poker hands site at the nursing home on poker hands site Hillcrest Drive, along with poker hands site nurses, and facility owners wanted to poker hands site know why restoring poker hands site electricity to the facility wasn't at the top of the poker hands site city's list following Ivan.
"I hope you poker hands site understand that sometimes we have poker hands site calamities under which we have no control," poker hands site explained to those in attendance at Tuesday's council poker hands site meeting.
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Johnson reiterated the city's priority list poker hands site concerning power restoration during poker hands site emergencies like Ivan. At the top of the list stands Andalusia Regional poker hands site Hospital.
Secondly, poker hands Johnson said, are nursing homes, poker hands followed by essential infrastructure utilized to keep the city's poker hands wastewater systems and other essential services poker hands running properly.
However, poker hands according to the mayor and Royce Whigham, the city's utilities director, poker hands the power lines connected to Andalusia poker hands Health Care received poker hands extensive damage during the storm, making it very difficult to restore power in an expedient fashion.
"We just have, as of today, finished that line, rebuilding it," said Whigham. "We had a crew working all day yesterday and today getting that line back up."
Andalusia Health Care
Initially, last Friday, the city was able to poker hands temporarily connect a line to the nursing home so that power could be restored.
One of the main concerns expressed by nursing home personnel was what they were calling a lack of poker hands communication during the power outage.
McAnulty poker hands and Administrator Trece Mays said that Andalusia Health Care workers were poker hands simply told the situation was "complicated."
Mayor Johnson advised the group that poker hands specific communications during the height of the city's restoration poker hands efforts was difficult, and added the situation was better poker hands explained in a forum such as that of poker hands Tuesday's council meeting.
"We had poker hands crews working out in 40 and 50-mph winds," Johnson said. "That poker hands was very dangerous."
Toward the end of poker hands discussions between Andalusia Health Care officials and city poker hands leaders, the two agreed to poker hands work together to try and prevent similar poker hands problems in the future.
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Even though poker hands Andalusia Health Care currently has a poker hands small generator, a plan is in place to purchase a second one.
City employees agreed to cut down trees along Hillcrest Drive that could contribute to poker hands another outage one day.
"Since poker hands I've been here, that line's been down many, many times poker hands due to those trees," Whigham said.
Saying thanks poker hands to workers
Johnson personally poker hands thanked all of the city's employees and poker hands department heads for "going above and beyond" during and after Hurricane Ivan's blow to Andalusia. poker hands According to Andalusia City Clerk Pam Steele, employees have clocked a total of more than 6,000 manhours as a direct result of restoration efforts poker hands.
Payment for those workers' hours, in addition to monies used to restore damaged city property, should be recompensated to the city by FEMA, Steele explained.
Firms poker hands hired for work
In other business, the City of Andalusia agreed to hire the firm, Roth and Associates, to implement the administrative portion of a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) totaling $500,000.
The council conceded to use Bob Carter and Associates to handle the engineering portion of poker hands the work.
This grant will continue water poker hands and sewage infrastructure improvements along Snowden Drive and Packer Avenue in Andalusia.
Drainage donation poker hands
The council unanimously agreed to give $1,500 to ClientLogic for grading work needed for drainage at the facility. This is part of an ongoing service zone poker hands project in conjunction with Covington County and the City of Opp.
No charge poker hands for debris pickup
Councilmen and poker hands department heads wished to remind the public that the City of Andalusia will charge poker hands no additional fees for the collection of debris, such as limbs and excessive leaves caused by Hurricane poker hands Ivan. However, if individuals do hire independent contractors, those companies will charge for the services.
Still no poker hands power? Call.
The city's utilities director explained poker hands that all power lines throughout Andalusia, which serve poker hands around 4,500 households, are currently completely charged. That doesn't poker hands mean,
Whigham said, that poker hands everyone in the city has power. Individual circumstances, such as direct damage to poker hands meters or other materials during Ivan, could cause certain homes to remain powerless. While poker hands some will need to hire licensed contractors to fix the problems,
Whigham said poker hands that the city's utilities department should be contacted. If anyone in poker hands Andalusia is currently without power, they should call 222-1332 and a line crew will visit their home or business to assess the situation.
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It was all or nothing poker hands for the Straughn Tigers at times during a 12-0 win poker hands against the Red Level Tigers in a junior varsity football game played at Straughn poker hands last night.
The Straughn poker hands Tigers used a running game at times, but it was the poker hands passing game that left a mark.
Quarterback Ryne poker hands Taylor connected for two touchdown poker hands passes in the victory.
The first was poker hands a 45-yard pass play. Taylor hit Ross Parker with a bullet of a pass and 45 poker hands yards later he was in the end zone. The two-point attempt failed, but Straughn held a 6-0 poker hands lead with 2:55 left to play in the opening period.
The second touchdown poker hands play covered 78 yards.
poker hands Taylor took the poker hands snap out of the shotgun formation and threw a high-arching pass down the sideline in front of his team's poker hands bench.
Trenton Driver stretched poker hands out his long legs covering ground with each stride to track poker hands down the lofted pass. Once Driver snared the football in his hands poker hands he was off to the races. He sidestepped one defender near the 30-yard line poker hands and sprinted the rest of the poker hands way into the end zone.
The score gave poker hands Straughn a 12-0 lead after the two-point play failed.
Trevor Driver made sure he was not outdone by his brother poker hands snaring a Red Level pass for an interception just before poker hands halftime.
Red Level's poker hands offense got field position and marched the ball down the gridiron poker hands toward the end zone in the third quarter.
The Red poker hands Level Tigers had a first-and-goal at the five-yard line poker hands late in the third period.
The Straughn poker hands defense answered the call poker hands and pushed Red Level's offense back poker hands to secure the shutout.
Neither poker hands team scored the rest of the way with Straughn holding on poker hands for a 12-0 win.
Straughn plays poker hands at Highland Home next Tuesday.