Tag Archives: Quarterman Road

Electric trucks on Hambrick Road 2025-06-09

And the west road ditches 2025-05-04

After the east side, here are the two drainage ditches on the west side of Quarterman Road.

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Drainage ditches finished, Quarterman Road 2025-05-01

Update 2025-05-06: And the west road ditches 2025-05-04.

Day before yesterday Lowndes County Public Works worked on the drainage ditches on Quarterman Road, after they made a mud puddle after the big rain. Yesterday they had finished all three ditches, including the one near Hambrick Road.

Near Hambrick Road, 2025:05:01 11:56:53

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Drainage ditches, Quarterman Road 2025-04-30

Update 2025-05-02: Drainage ditches finished, Quarterman Road 2025-05-01.

After they made a mud puddle after the big rain, Lowndes County Public Works came back three weeks later and worked on the drainage ditches on Quarterman Road yesterday.

They were making a lot of progress at 6431 Quarterman Road. Also at 6380. They hadn’t yet started at the ditch near Hambrick Road, although they said it needed it.

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Men Working, 6431 Quarterman Road

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Drainage ditch on Quarterman Road 2025-04-08

Update 2025-05-01: Drainage ditches, Quarterman Road 2025-04-30.

Going to mow the niece’s driveway, I saw Glenda and Craig Palmer standing on the road.

Turns out they were actually Laurie and Denton Dye.

Drainage Ditch with shadows of jsq, Glenda, and Craig Palmer

They were admiring Lowndes County Public Works’ attempt to open up the drainage ditch across the road.

Maybe try again not on the day after more than an inch of rain. Continue reading →

Gopher tortoise

This gopher tortoise was on the edge of the pavement.

Gopher tortoise, 2024-08-10, 10:23:19, 30.9942320, -83.2697720

Since the Gopherus polyphemus was not actually crossing Quarterman Road and seemed to be in no danger, I took a picture and moved on.

As you probably know, gophers are a keystone species, whose burrows host up to 300 other species, from insects to rattlesnakes.

This was on the way to the Neighborly morning chainsawing 2024-08-10.
http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/?p=9507

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Neighborly morning chainsawing 2024-08-10

This oak tree was still on the phone line, blocking Quarterman Road, almost a week after Hurricane Debby. So a bunch of neighbors removed it.

Neighborly chainsaw cleanup of oak on phone line 2024-08-10, SW Quarterman Road, by Brooks, Ashley, Larsen, Barzallo, and Quarterman families

Here are some video snippets:
https://youtu.be/n41Tm07huCQ

Thanks to William Brooks, elder and younger, Dennis Ashley, Tom Larsen, Alexandria Larsen, Racheal Brooks, and Max Barzallo.

Thanks to Wild Green Future for the grant that bought the WWALS 24-inch Husqvarna 460 chainsaw that I used to saw the main trunk. Turns out the oak heart was mostly rotten, which may have something to do with why it blew over.

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Hurricane Idalia and aftermath 2023-09-02

A few scenes from during and after Hurricane Idalia.

We had many deadfalls, but no property or personal damage. So we were much luckier than many others.

Deadfalls, power lines, cooking, rainfall

This still just looks like heavy rain, but the video shows the wind was blowing. Idalia’s eye went a few miles east of us, but those were probably still 60 mph winds from the north. Continue reading →

Petition: Stop rezoning on Quarterman Road 2023-08-28

Update 2023-08-24: Packet: Two county rezonings, one plainly inappropriate @ GLPC 2023-08-28.

Please sign and share this petition:

https://chng.it/LDW47QsdSd

We the undersigned ask that the request for 2.5 acre lots on Quarterman Road be denied.
The smallest appropriate acreage in our area is the EA minimum of 5 acres.
Rural rezonings like this lead to additional developments in the future. We don’t want it now and we don’t want it later.
We ask the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission to recommend denial in its August meeting.
We ask the Lowndes County Commission to deny in its September meeting.

Rezoning sign, site, Quarterman Road, Zoning Map, Agriculture/Forestry/Conservation Character Area

R-A allows 2.5-acre lots, while E-A allows only down to 5-acre lots. That is inappropriate on Quarterman Road, where there is no R-A, and the entire road is in the Agriculture/Forestry/Conservation Character Area. Many of us fought to preserve that Character Area only two years ago. Just last year we fought off a Dollar General on GA-122 at Skipper Bridge Road, in the same Character Area.

Now let’s stop this rezoning in the same Character Area.

According to the Lowndes County Unified Land Development Code (ULDC), Continue reading →

Good burn, west side 2023-01-11

Update 2023-03-07: Longleaf candling after burn 2023-03-06.

Fastest burn ever!

We lit the one and only match no earlier than 11AM, and the fire was completely burned by 2PM. So three hours to burn 20 acres of planted longleaf pines.

Fastest burn ever: 20 acres in 3 hours 2023-01-11

Thanks to both the Lowndes County and Moody AFB Fire Departments for coming out, although they both determined we had firebreaks and backfires, water, rakes, and water.

I had called Lowndes County Fire Rescue before we started, leaving a message with our burn permit. But that had not percolated to the man in charge of fires in the north of Lowndes County.

Thanks to new neighbor Landen Ryan for helping Gretchen and me.

Some of the subdivision neighbors wondered what was going on. The phenomenon of prescribed burns in fire forests is something unfamiliar to most suburbanites, and is yet another reason counties should not rezone to permit subdivisions in agriculture and forestry areas. Continue reading →

Canopy Roads of South Georgia

Outside the city; off the main roads.