The high desert 

Jeannie & Kandi outside of 7 Oaks 

There is more information coming out about Marvin Heemeyer and his bulldozer rampage. There are still quite a few news trucks running around and they are now here in Grand Lake, which is where he lived. I'll keep you who are interested posted.


Demo has started on the town hall and the news paper office, and repairs are under way at the batch plant. Guess I'll have to take some more pics.

Hwy 18 leaving Big Bear 

Jami, Jeannie and Gary  

Brother Jamie and me at BJ's in Big Bear city. 

Larry and me in Big Bear 

Hi Misty..Welcome to our Blog...He shot himself.

Went to Denver yesterday to get the 30,000 mile check up on the Hyundai. Had lunch with Joanne and Julie. We haven't seen Julie since she moved to Sac <-cool, and haven't seen Joanne in a while. Had a nice time, caught up on all the family news from the Colorado branch. It was mighty warm down there yesterday. Glad we have air conditioning.

Construction has begun on the last stretch of highway 34 to be widened. Guess it's a 2 year project. If you come up this way be ready to sit for up to 30 minutes. The section of road between Winter park ski area and the town is also being finished. That's way behind, but should be done by the end of the month.

Will post more vacation pics soon...

More dammage 

Pulling the dozer, a Komatsu, not a Cat, out of Gambles using two D8 Cats. A single D8 was unable to pull it by it's self. 

batch plant 

The other concrete building that was destoryed is in the back ground. The metal building with the hole in the side next to the white door, is where the machine was built. He drove it threw the wall. The yellow building was his muffler shop.  

We went to see Shreek 2 this evening which took us threw Granby. Were happy to report the town is quiet and pretty much empty, with the exception of two news crews doing live reports from what used to be the town hall.
The bulldozer was moved to the electric company's poll yard on hwy 34 yesterday, and is now covered with tarps. We were wondering what their going to do with it.
People started cleaning up yesterday, and I would imagine every thing will be rebuilt by years end.

I have to say I was worried because Jeannie had called to tell me what was going on, and had watched the bulldozer go threw their parking lot. I listened to what was happening on the radio, but couldn't get a hold of Jeannie again to see if she was all right. I really got worried when they said he was headed back into town. The sheriff had come back to the store and told every one to leave the area. The first time the sheriff was there they had just told them to get out of the store. That was when he was headed toward the store. Thank God nobody was hurt!

More  

If you look close at the dozer pic on the back you can clearly see the 50 cal rifle barrel right behind the small steel box. There were three video cameras mounted on the out side, and three video monitors mounted on the inside. There was an air tank that he could use to keep the camera lenses clean. The plating was solid so there was no other way to see where he was going. The steel plating was two layers with concrete in between. There were three mounted rifles.

The Machine! 

The Sky Hi news building across from Gambles. 

Gambles, one of our favorite hardware stores. 

Built Ford tough!! 

This was the previous mayors garage. 

More damage at Excel Energy 

Concret batch plant 

That's only the beginning, I'll get more pics tomorrow. Approximately a dozen buildings damaged or destroyed. This isn't the first time this has happened in Colorado.

Town Hall 

Town Hall 

The new bank 

MT.Parks electric 

dozer tracks next to Jeannies work. 

Truck pushed into building 

Dozer attack 

Exciting day today...Some moron built himself an amour plated D9 Cat and proceeded to tear down town of Granby. Granby is where Jeannie works and when he was done destroying the cement plant, he used Leevers driveway to get to Main street and go after more buildings. He started around 2 this afternoon. It's quarter to 11 and they still haven't gotten him out of his bulldozer. Check out the pics.