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Hi everyone

Hope you are doing well

Here is a link to a Roanoke Times article about the Smith Mountain hydropower project.

I need to go use the digital vomitoir right now, but please make sure you don't miss the part of the article which talks about AEP feeling that it is necessary to conceal the location of culturally relevant sites along the shorelines and inside the floodplain of this so-called lake.

Lakes are something that is made by God. In my mind, creating a hydropower dam, and crafting all the documentation and propaganda that goes along with it, often creates a body of water which falls into a somewhat different category: BEWITCHED.

In my mind, it is laughable that anyone would have the audacity to say that a once ecologically and culturally rich valley is a lake when in reality it is more like a sludgy soup of fecal coliform bacteria, gasoline, drowned farms and forests, and ACTUAL DEAD DUDES that have joined the ranks of the Smith Mountain "Lake" drowned & unfound.

Perhaps the Smith Mountain Hydropowers that be should consider the need for an added layer of dam security: One that will turn the Creator's wrath away from it.

bye, namaste, thanks for reading.

Suzy