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We had a very exciting day in Paint Lick yesterday. Congressman Ben Chandler and Garrard County Judge-Executive John Wilson made their way through each of the businesses in downtown to see firsthand the damages caused by the May 2, 2010 flood. Following them was an entourage that included Channel 27 news, local newspapers and photographers, business owners, and local residents.

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We are slowly recovering from the great flood of Paint Lick, 2 May 2010. After receiving a phone call about our truck being underwater, Piper and I drove down to the office and remained in the building during the flood, thus we were able to save most of all our important equipment (computers, etc.) and files. The office had about 30 inches of water in the downstairs portion of our building.

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Day 2. This morning Steven came to me looking really weak/sick. Our trip to the divide has been altered due to his sickness. It has been decided that we are going to continue with the expedition but not to the divide. We are reworking our trip and schedule. We are heading to a place in the Blade River called Tea Kettle and Ramos.

Day 1. We spend most of the day preparing for our journey to the Maya Mountain Divide. It took use several hours to find our pack of equipment that was left here last year. For our nine day hike we have three porters to help carry our supplies like 120lb of food. Once packed, we set two trail cameras around BFREE. I hope we are ready to head out right after breakfast tomorrow.

Chris, Price and I left for Belize in the early morning 11 March 2010. The flight out of Cincinnati was with a beautiful red sun rise. We were picked up at the airport by Steven and we headed to BFREE. While driving across Belize we were welcomed by a beautiful red glow of the savanna burning.

I have owned a couple of 4WD vehicles and many times I have had to walk several miles to get to a place to call for assistance because I was stuck and could not get the truck out. After a year of researching the Toyota FJ Cruiser, Copperhead Consulting bought their first new vehicle during the summer of 2008.

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