Each truck was escorted front and rear with “Wide Load” alert vehicles. The caravan altogether was about a mile long and as the day went along we would pass the caravan, stop for gas or to eat and then once again catch up to pass the caravan again. Each time we would examine the “thing” and try to figure out what was being transported. At first we thought it must be some sort of missile but it really did not look like a missile. After a while we just gave up trying to figure it out.
THEN, as we were traveling north on US Highway 41 we saw one of the trucks stopped at a local motel
and then we saw the following:
For several miles all along Route 41 just south of Kentland, Indiana a windmill farm has been planted. We were so astonished not only to see the windmills but to discover what we had been traveling with all through Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. The windmills were not in place last December when we passed this area so how wonderful to see that wind is being captured to generate elelctricity in the Midwest!
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Thank you for clearing up some questions I had. I also traveled through that area last summer and didn't see any windmills. This summer there are close to 40 on the West side of US 41 and probably as many being erected on the East side. The ones on the West side were all turning when we traveled through Friday 7/25/08 but were stopped when we came back Monday 7/28/08.
We travel throug there regularly and there are now probably a couple hundred or, more windmills stretching from Kentland down to Lafayette some 20 miles to the Southeast.
Very impressive sites to say the least!
Very impressive and awesome! To see these monstrous windmills is truly awe-inspiring. Today, November 5, 2009, there are now 87 erected and working structures WEST of US 41 and 500 more are being erected on the EAST side of US 41. Each one, I understand, costs more than one million dollars to build and put up. Totally cool to see all of these on the landscape and continuing until you can no longer see them!
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