Henry County has A Problem!!!

 

Henry County has A Problem!!!

Henry County has many problems, from a lack of infrastructure and maintenance to crime. But we have another problem you may not be aware of that can cost a lot of Henry County citizens to lose their lives and the lives of loved ones. After a survey of all the tornado sirens in the county, it is blatantly obvious that Henry County has been negligent in the placement and number of sirens throughout the county. Now we know that people will say the sirens are for people who are outside. This is a lie and a misnomer. People will say that they have their cellphones to get notified of bad weather, this is dangerous. In very bad storms, cell towers can and do go down, and cannot notify you of bad weather. The two very good ways of being informed of bad storms are, one, good siren coverage in the county, and two is to have a weather alert radio that can wake you up from sleep. In fact, it should be mandatory that all residents must have a weather radio in their homes provided by the builder. Now let’s look at the sirens we have in the county and see what kind of coverage they offer in the county.

This first photo shows the placement of the sirens in the County, as you can see they lack the coverage that is needed, you can see the gaps.

As you can see from the photo below this area of Henry County has a very large gap of coverage of the County's tornado siren system. This area is along Highway 138 Highway 42 East of Stockbridge approximately 3 to 4 miles. Many of the communities here are of Mobile Home Design and newer neighborhoods that have been built. A lack of warning during a tornado could be very deadly and costly to not only the citizens but to the county as well.

This photo below could be considered one of the most dangerous areas for not having tornado siren coverage. This area is just North of Stockbridge and does not cover the Stockbridge High School. That's right the school where your children are taught are unprotected by tornado sirens.

The next photo below covers a wide area of Southeastern Henry County the Ola area to be more specific as you can see from the map the north Ola Park is not covered which is just adjacent to the Ola High School and Middle School that are not covered by the tornado sirens of Henry County. This area has seen tremendous growth and development over the years and yet Henry County has not updated or expanded the tornado sirens to help cover and to protect its citizens in this area. 

The last photo below will show you just how the county has not thought clearly or logically about the placement of their tornado sirens. You can see three sirens and their sound waves there are overlapping; it appears two of the sirens are about a mile or less apart. This area is in the Kelly Town area around Knight Road. This area also has had a lot of growth in recent years and is unprotected. The citizens are at very grave risk in this area.

 So as you can see, Henry County has been very negligent in protecting the citizens from severe weather and tornadoes by not placing enough and correcting their tornado siren system. I would urge everyone to contact the County Commissioners and talk to them about your concerns about the lack of doing the right thing to protect the citizens again. I must reiterate tornado sirens or for everyone, not just if you are outside. We must insist that Henry County do the right thing and protect citizens by upgrading and installing more tornado sirens so that we may be protected during severe weather seasons. We have already had tornadoes increasing in Henry County as of late, and we have received a lot of damage, and citizens have been injured and killed by these tornadoes. As we move forward, storms will be getting more violent and unpredictable. As the County continues to have uncontrollable growth with clear-cutting trees and building houses, this has a tremendous effect on the weather in our County. We will be covering this in another blog post to come up soon, but in the meantime, please contact the Henry County Commissioners to voice your concerns, and please get yourself a NOAA weather alert radio.

Blog Staff

Alfred Britt

Mike Moon Ph.D.

Mr. Tim Coley

Mr. Tim Coley was born in 1961 and passed away in 2023.  Tim was always an enthusiastic and hard-working gentleman.  He started working for the Henry County Parks and Recreation under Charles Bledsoe when Tim was still in High School.  Tim worked in the afternoons after school.  Mr. Bledsoe saw a future in Tim and told him to go and get his degree after High School and then work his way up.  So, Tim took his advice and got his education and went to work for various communities as their Parks and Recreation Director learning his craft.  After Mr. Bledsoe left Tim returned to Henry County to serve as the director of Parks and Rec for almost 30 years before retiring in December 2022  from failing health.  Tim was a man who always gave 110% of himself to see that a project or program succeeded and worked correctly.  He helped to bring programs to the Veterans Wall of Honor by putting the right people in place to have the events on Memorial Day and Veterans Day.   Tim was a man that people loved to work with and they would give their best because he treated them well.  Tim was a true legend in Henry County sporting events because he made them work so well.  He didn't mind getting his hands dirty to make things right for events.  Tim loved his family and friends and he will definitely be missed by so many.  

Staff.

Once Again Henry County Has Not Learned

Once Again Henry County Has Not Learned. 

For 21 years Henry County has been doing it wrong and cannot get it right. The first years after September 11th attacks on us Henry County would have a memorial service out in the middle of a state route near an intersection of an interstate in front of a Walmart. Just how stupid is this, what sane parent is going to bring their children to learn about the attacks on us and to remember the victims in the middle of a road.  We at this blog had brought it to the attention of the county on multiple occasions that Heritage Park would be a more suitable place for the services near the veterans memorial wall would be even better although the county has other plans for Heritage Park. But that fell on deaf ears, or deaf and dumb ears, however you would like to put it. 

This year the Henry County of Commissioners held a small and I mean small service in front of the administration building on September 9th, not the 11th the day of the attacks and to make it worse they did not even invite the public it was as if it was an impromptu In the Heat of the Moment thing. There were just a few County workers from the fire department. They read a proclamation and that was how pitiful it was.  Then, it gets even better in the Henry Herald Newspaper as they had a small write-up about it with pictures and said it was done on September 11th and yet on the County's web page on Facebook it shows that they posted it on the 9th when they actually did it.

It seems Henry County does not know what it is doing due to the fact that they cannot even lie well. Please note the photo of one of these speakers on the 9th, when we had cloudy and Stormy Weather if you remember, on September 11th we had clear skies. Here you cannot lie and change the weather.

They have been caught not only lying, but doing a substandard memorial service that a lot of people including people that lost loved ones at this blog do not like seeing being done. It is a shame and injustice to those who lost their lives on that morning.  It all goes to show and prove that the voters of Henry County need to do a better job at voting.  Remember you vote in trash you will get trash. 

The Blog Staff.

Stockbridge Amphitheater Not So World Class

 

Many knew the new amphitheater in Stockbridge would not be properly maintained.   The grass is very high in the flower beds around the trees and other flora.  There has not been any groundskeeping that is supposed to go with any high class in the game facility.  Many people have been talking about this deplorable situation.  If they cannot properly maintain an amphitheater, then should the citizens believe that the city will properly maintain a new police department.  Yes, getting new things comes with a price, and many times it is the simple things that can tear down the image of a supposedly "world-class" town.  Remember these items when election time rolls around.

The Staff.

Very Important Info For Henry County Citizens

Henry County continues to be running high numbers of people infected with Covid-19.  The sad report is that out of nearly a quarter of a million people who live in the county only 23 percent have been vaccinated.  This is a poor number for this many people and knowing that the vaccine has been available for months.  The Christmas holidays are fast approaching and that means there will be large groups of people gathering and in those there will be people who either have Covid-19 or are carriers.  They could spread this disease to the elderly and those with poor immune systems and out of those several could die.  It would be a heavy burden upon a person knowing they could have prevented the death of a loved one for taking a shot that doesn’t cost anything.  Wearing a mask helps, but it is not the only thing to help against this horror.  Wash your hands regularly and practice safety to make the holidays a merry time ahead.

The Staff.

More History to be removed by the misguided

“More History to be removed by the misguided”

The following should make people boil about what the Henry County BOC is now contemplating at Heritage Park.  The park was created to be a place to put historical items from Henry County’s past to be remembered.  It looks like the “woke” crowd doesn’t want any remembrance at all.  They have already removed the Confederate Monument from the square in McDonough and placed it in a shipping container.  Read  the following:  “Henry County is considering the removal of the historic train and other items at Heritage Park in McDonough. The board of commissioners will consider voting to surplus the items during the Tuesday, November 16, meeting.

The meeting will start at 5:30 pm. This is one hour earlier than the normal time. Agenda items from November 3 are also on the agenda. The board had to cancel the November 3 meeting because a quorum wasn’t present.

Heritage Park historic train

The train at Heritage Park is a steam locomotive. The train commemorates the Camp Creek train wreck. The wreck occurred in McDonough during June 1900.

County staff are recommending the board surplus the steam engine. To surplus an item allows the county to discard, sell or scrap the item. In their report, staff write the following:

Heritage Park is home to old structures and buildings that have not been maintained over the years. At this time, the cost to repair the buildings and structures isn’t worth preserving as we head in a new direction with revitalizing the image of the park. The train symbolizes an old train wreck which occurred in Henry County years ago. We are looking to [improve] the park and area to shed light on the positive things that have happened and are happening in Henry County. The silo and old road scraper are rusted and unsightly. We are recommending surplus these items so we may remove them and begin improvements to the park.

What do they want next the destruction of the Veterans Wall of Honor?  If those who claim to love history continue to vote these unworthy people into office then there will be more destruction to come.   The train they are wanting to scrap is a representation of the engine that crashed in the Camp Creek Train Wreck of 1900 when more people died at that incident than any other train wreck in Georgia History.  This is an item to let the people who visit Henry County know of the accident and those who lost their lives.  The other items they are scrapping were donated to the Park for museum pieces.  They are likely to want to do away with the Veterans Museum at the park as well.  This type of destruction of history is always done by those with no morals, scruples or thinking processes.  Please let these people who fill those chairs hear an ear full about what they are planning at the meeting. 

 Because public comment occurs at the end of the meeting, residents can also email board members in advance. Email addresses for each commissioner are below:

Chair Carlotta Harrell – charrell@co.henry.ga.us

District I Johnny Wilson – johnnywilson@co.henry.ga.us

District II Dee Clemmons – dclemmons@co.henry.ga.us

Dist. III Greg Cannon – gcannon@co.henry.ga.us

District IV Vivian Thomas – vthomas@co.henry.ga.us

District V Bruce Holmes – bholmes@co.henry.ga.us                                                                                                                                          The staff

Henry County Continues the Apathy

Henry County Continues the Apathy

It has come and gone that in this election only 9% of the registered voters in Henry County turned out to vote.  There are over 171,000 registered to vote in the county.  This is pathetic.  It continues the trend of the last several years of elections that only a handful turn out to elect or vote on decisions that cost the taxpayers in the pocket.   There is an old saying that goes like this, “you get what you want and deserve.”  There is a new tax for roads that will go to the hands of those who do not know how to handle the taxpayer's money in the county.  Those few who voted handed them the key to the treasure chest.  Those who voted in the municipal elections also had a low turnout of just 9% and they have put people either back in office or those who have strings attached to them that run back to the underlying problem in the county.  It appears those in the county who don’t vote have no feelings about their own lives or the lives of their loved ones.  It begs the question as to why register to vote if you don’t exercise your right to do so?

Enjoy what you get as things will continue down a path of disorganization for the foreseeable future.

The Staff