Muskingum County Ohio

Traffic Congestion on Maple due to Construction

 This week Maple Ave. in Zanesville has continued the extensive revamping and upgrading projects to make the road safer.  However, it has bottle-necked traffic and accidents are easy to have in this congestion.  Here is a three car pile up in front of Tee-Jayes this week.  Just be careful and stay off of Maple if you can possibly take another route until the construction is finished.

Sheridan Street Changes, Zanesville

   

A lot of the road work on Maple Ave. is continuing.  The traffic light at Sheridan Street was removed.  Now there is a right turn only when coming from Sheridan Street onto Maple.  It seems that this improvement was for the better and will make traffic flow a little quicker on Maple.
  

Goodwill Zanesville Renovation?

I heard thru the grapevine that Goodwill at its current location will be closing for a complete renovation sometime in the near future.  They are supposed to locate somewhere else temporarily and keep the business open while the renovation is taking place.

 A center cement abutment is being installed on Maple Ave. in Zanesville, Ohio close to Tlaquepaque Mexican Restaurant.  Is it permanent, installed for safety?  I remember a center median divider used to be in place years ago in the Burger King Vicinity and distinctly remember someone running their classy Corvette right up on it.  Well, I know it is for safety issues, but right now the traffic is backed up really bad because of all the work.  So for the time being in order to avoid an accident, I recommend shying away from Maple Ave. and taking all the alternate routes you can come up with.

Burger King, Maple Ave. in Zanesville, Ohio

 Burger King is closing, I think tomorow for a remodeling job.  It seems that this building has been there for over 40 years.  It has gone through a couple of renovations, but this time they are plowing it to the ground.  Of course in Zanesville we had Tasty Burger that used to be downtown, Burger Chef on Maple Ave., McDonalds on Maple Ave and Burger King on Maple Ave. These were the early burger places.  Originally, people seemed to flock to Burger Chef more than McDonalds.  The original Burger Chef rhyme was " Fifteen cents, a nickle and a dime, at Burger Chef you eat better every time, a nickel and a dime will get, french fried potatoes, big thick shakes and the best 15 cent hamburer you ever ate."  Aren't you all proud of me for remembering this?

Avoiding Maple Like the Plague

Maple Avenue has been under construction for many days now and the traffic is routinely backed up for a mile or two during many parts of the day.  If possible try to find alternate routes.

I guess they are trying to make Maple a safer place and are eliminating many of the left turns, closing off some entrances and exits from businesses and the like.

Maple certainly has been in need of some kind of a plan for a long time.  I just wish that there weren't so mnay semis going up and down. 

Entrance, Exits at Tee-Jayes in Zanesville

  Tee Jayes on Maple Ave. in Zanesville, Ohio has closed two of their three Maple Ave. exit/entrances.  There are cement pilings and orange barrels marking the locations.  I went by there last week and thought they had closed off the restarant or something.  It seems as if other locations on Maple Ave. are being required to do the same thing?  Maybe ODOT enforcement?  I guess it is to help reduce the number of accidents?  Well, just so no one has an accident, be careful when entering Tee Jayes and be sure to go in the center entrance section, as it is still open and the one behind the restarant on the side street is still usuable.

Kentucky Fried Remodeling

Kentucky Fried Chicken on Maple Ave. in Zanesville is underway with a major remodeling project.  Both entrances to the restaurant are blocked.  The Ovens and like are all sitting in the parking lot Monday morning as workers skurry about.  Guess they will not be getting any chicken dinners at lunch break today.

Storms of Many Types

Photo Copyright by Cathy J. Domokos, 2008

Well, the Muskingum County area  has been nothing but a flurry of activitiy the past few weeks.  Octoberfests, Melon Festivals, Flea Markets, Boating, Power Outages from Hurricane Ike, what a time!!

I was out on the Pontoon Boat on Buckeye Lake (  Buckeye Lake State Park  ) when Ike was brewing up.  The storm liked to have took us away.  What a thriller.  I loved the wind.  It was awesome, if only it had not caused so much havoc. We had over 60 mile an hour winds here, tree, power line, roof, car damages, boats smashed and much more. Thousands without power in many parts of the county and the state of Ohio, most of which are back on now.

My friend lives In Houston and she says you just cannot fathom the damage.  4.5 million without power, Ike at 600 miles wide was the size of Indiana and Ohio combined.  Now, that's a monster!  No one had gasoline, water, food, everything was shut down.  She said they will be lucky to insurance adjusters in the next month or more.  Galveston is pretty much a goner. 

Who said preparing for y2k was crazy.  Y2k is an everyday occurence anymore and it would be prudent to have a little place to get off the grid somehow.  Someway that one could live for a couple of months without electric if they had to.

The financial crisis is piled on top of everything else.  Of course we are being smoothed over and lulled to sleep being told it will be all right.  But, FEMA has not done much for the Houstonians who need to drink and eat.  Did anyone see FEMA in Muskingum County yet?  They are not equipped to handle massive wide-spread situations it seems.  I am not necessarily insulting them, I just think that financially and practically we may need to take more responsibility for ourselves. 

Muskingum County Fair

I have been at the fair most of the week taking hundreds of photos.  There should be some nice ones to view by this time next week.  The fair weather has been perfect, not so hot like last year.  It has only rained once, last evening, long and hard enough to shut the rides down.