Is This a Serious Public Feedback Meeting??

Am I the only one who's mildly amused—or maybe just deeply unimpressed—that Orange County's entire shot at meaningful input on this massive land-grab consists of one lonely 2-hour meeting? That's it. Two hours. For the whole county. Rob Richardson, Dominion's ever-so-gracious PR guy, personally swung by my place to explain how they're planning to "confiscate" my 30 acres for Valley Link's grand Joshua Falls-to-Yeat transmission line extravaganza. He was all earnest smiles: "Be sure to come to the community meeting! Give your feedback! We've even flown in the two brilliant experts who magically decided where that 200-foot bulldozer corridor should carve through everyone's property and whose land gets taken." He stressed—really stressed—how vital it was for landowners to chat with these wizards and share our thoughts. Super important to the process, dontcha know. So, while bumping along in my truck today, I did some quick back-of-the-napkin math (because apparently no one at Valley Link bothered). Two hours. Two experts. That's a grand total of four person-hours to spread around like thin gruel to every affected landowner who bothers to show up. They mailed letters to basically the entire county. Let's be wildly optimistic and say less than 10% show: 3,000 people. If half want face time with the experts? Each "land victim" gets roughly 10 seconds. Blink, cough, and your turn's over. Poof. Dial it down to a more realistic 100 landowners who actually care enough to attend? You get a luxurious 2 minutes and 24 seconds each. But we all know how that goes: some folks love to hear themselves talk, the older crowd's got questions for days, and suddenly your 2:24 shrinks to polite nods while the clock ticks mercilessly. And heaven forbid 200 show up—then we're talking barely over a minute per person. A minute! If they're seizing 30 acres of my land for their shiny new 765kV superhighway to feed data centers up north, I'd kind of like more than 60–120 seconds to ask why my property, explain my concerns, and maybe get an actual answer before they move on to the next poor soul. I wonder what the State Corporation Commission considers "adequate" public comment time for something involving eminent domain and widespread property takings?? Because this feels like the bare minimum required to check the "we held a meeting" box, nothing more. In the end, this thing's going to play out like a Black Friday doorbuster sale: everyone stampeding in early to grab their sliver of time before the "experts" clock out. Sorry, Tony W.—I know you wanted us all to politely spread ourselves out over the full two hours like civilized folks, but I'll be camping out at the front of the line. Gotta secure my precious 90 seconds somehow. Here's hoping this was just Rob's charming incompetence at work—something to chuckle about at his next performance review. Or, you know, maybe it's intentional: ram through this outrageous land grab before the local yokels figure out what's actually hitting them. Either way, color me skeptical. See you March 9th at Lafayette Station—bring snacks, we don't want anyone 'hangry', and maybe a bullhorn.