What’s Next Now

This flood recovery thing is taking a lot longer and is taking a lot more out of me than I expected or considered when I last posted. The best thing that has come of it is that I have been able to experiment with using Social Media to get things done.

I have successfully used Twitter to leverage better and faster customer service. Now I am using other Social Apps to spread the word about some shady deals that must have occurred back when our subdivision was being built. The County Commission wants us, the property owners who have been harmed by bad faith dealings at the zoning department some 15 years ago, to pay exhorbitant fees to fix a messed up siuation made by either incompetent or corrupt officials.

That will not stand! So, this fight will be brought to our County Commission from every direction possible.

Stay tuned.

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