Meeting

A meeting was held at the McDonalds Restaurant in 2009, whereas I was asked about the composition of the fill that McDonalds and Pizza Hut sat on. I then stated the old man's desire to have the drain under U.S Route opened up before, as he stated "U.S. Route 50 collapsed". A Young State Road Supervisor and a head nodding Thrasher Engineer, stated that the drain outlet did not sit on the valley floor. It was only 20 feet down or so from the surface area of Route 50.

I informed the parties that I played in the concrete drain's outlet when I was a child. I know where it was located. It was on the valley floor. I asked if they could take a horizontal auger and go back into the drain outlet to and unplug it. They had considered it. After 10 minutes, or so, a McDonalds corporate representative said; I do not think you understand. "They, (The Young State Road Supervisor and the head nodding Thrasher Engineer), are saying that this is your father's responsibility. They stated that the earthen fill, which a Quick Lube business sat on, had closed off the drain outlet below.

I thought the DOH had already tested excavated the McDonald's Slope, they know better. What is going on?

Five Years

Over the last five years, I had amassed documentation at an unheard of level concerning antics imparted on a wide geographic area. Nevertheless, to hear said parties attempts to place blame on my father in the same way that Platinum Properties had attempted to place blame on us for 109 & 113 Platinum Drive, which was also overseen by Thrasher Engineering, was staggering. Additionally, McDonalds, Pizza Hut's and U.S Route 50's drainage induced collapses would not have occurred if Platinum Properties had followed their own Jackson and Kelly 2005 Agreement to take their drainage back to its original Southern Route. I stayed calm and thought about the 2003 DEP agent's words; This happens to older people.

Once everyone exited the meeting, the McDonalds corporate representative and I took a short ride around the area. I informed him that my father could not understand why McDonalds would repair their drainage system without addressing their slip first. A slip area that also supported their utilities. What Slip? No one had told him of any slip. I showed him. He rubbed his head.

After a short period, I called my father and asked him who placed the fill where the Quick Lube is located. He said the State, (West Virginia Department of Highways). He then gave me the dates from the 1940's to the 1980's. The last time was in the 1980's when the hill across the road fell into the highway. He then asked why I wanted to know, I told him why. He said; I gave them, (Thrasher Engineering), my blueprint of New US Route 50's (1939) construction. Can't They Read?

A five minute call to McDonalds Corporate Attorneys and Frank Lacaria was never mentioned again. Life moved on.

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