KVH has gotten worse in recent years
To the Editor:
I have lived in Goldendale for 30 years, and I can't remember the hospital being as bad as it has become in the last ten years.
I have been billed wrong on numerous occasions, been billed for other people's procedures, and been made to wait in an emergency room for 45 minutes with an 18-month-old while a doctor was playing with her two-year-old and talking with her husband and the nurses. I was the only one in the emergency room. I have contacted the hospital many times trying to get my bills taken care of. I know there is something wrong when a person in billing tells me they don't understand the way the numbers were calculated. When they don't understand, how is the general public supposed to understand?
What about the people who don't check their statements thoroughly? How much is KVH being overpaid? I can't believe taxes are being taken out of my wages to pay for such a place. I have informed the billing department that I was going to pay off the remaining bill I had and that they would no longer see or hear from me.
I must say that there were a few people who were honestly trying to help me, but they themselves did not understand what was happening. I thank those people for what they tried to do. No thanks to all the others!
Erin Gray
Goldendale
Ice on wind farms not a real problem
To the Editor:
In The Sentinel's June 4 edition, a concerned resident raised a question regarding wind turbine safety in a Letter to the Editor. The concern was for the possibility that ice deposits on turbine rotor blades could accumulate and become hazardous flying projectiles. The turbines apparently referred to are those of the Windy Flats and Windy Point II wind farms.
To ensure the turbines do not pose a public safety risk, these turbines are equipped by the manufacturer with safety systems that detect icing on the rotors and are operated in accordance with a related safety protocol. In the event of weather conditions conducive to ice accumulation, instruments on the wind turbines would force the machines offline and issue a warning message to the turbine operator. The affected turbine would then remain offline until it was manually inspected, cleared of possible ice, and safety reset. So, while the thought of flying ice projectiles may seem to be a cause for concern, in actuality the turbine would be shut down well before dangerous levels of ice could build up.
Brandy Myers
Windy Flats Partners, LLC
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