And They Call the Wind "Debacle"

Jeremy Renner attempts to comfort residents of Lexington Lane

The letter writing campaign has begun, and sadly, Grand Estates neighbors learned nothing, and passed none of this education along.  If you write a letter and somehow think you have accomplished something, you are sadly mistaken.  You need to organize, you need to single out one trustee, and you need to begin hammering away.  Look, you have no chance of stopping Wind River, it's already a done deal, but you can make a board member squirmy and defensive, and make him or her say "Wow, I don't want to necessarily go through that again."  Grand Estates neighbors, if you had advice to pass along to Highway 7 residents, what would it be?  Because I can repost these letters all day, and we can fill up a three-ring binder notebook with angry communications (ask Seniors Inc.) but if you actually want to win, you are going to have to change strategies.  Did you see how successful teachers across the United States have been at getting the state legislatures to change?  Do you think they accomplished that by writing letters?  Smarten up, retirees.  You still have some mileage left in those tennis shoes, don't you?  You still know how to write big letters on big signs, don't you?  So why are you wasting everyone's time letting us know in an email how angry you are.  Everyone is angry at something, get in line.  Better yet, form a protest line outside town hall, or go away.  Your complaints are empty if they aren't backed up by action, and the trustees know this.  Hell, they've weather 50 fake storms just in the past two years.  Stop crying wolf and start bringing the wolves to their door.  Or go away.  Or don't, and enjoy all your new neighbors parking on your lawn, and have something else to bitch about over coffee.