Flood Call 1440

A caller asking for information on evacuating the Riverside Park area.

Date April 18th 1997, 8:02 pm
Duration 90 seconds
Channel 24
Direction incoming call
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Yeah, I have my ex-husband, he lives on Fenton in the Riverside Park area, and he won't leave
and his son might, you know, I'm divorced and I have my son with me and he's worried
about him, you know.
Is there anything you can do?
Can you call him and tell him to get out?
We can't force him to leave now.
No?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, because I thought everybody had to evacuate the Riverside Park area.
They're requesting it.
Only the governor can force them out, so unless the governor declares it a disaster,
we cannot go physically take them out.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Is it safe to be there then?
Well, I wouldn't really say that, no.
Well, because it's not his son, you know, he's with me and my son, and he's worried
about him.
Is there anything we can do?
Um, unless your son could talk to him, maybe convince him to go.
He already did try.
Okay, then really there isn't.
He's got, my son has, you know, like, things over there, and, you know, he wants, he wants
me to take the stuff and bring it, you know, and close some schools that are there.
I don't think they're letting anybody else back in at this point.
They won't let me go in there to get the stuff.
No, no, they won't.
Just a moment.
Okay, I don't believe they're letting anybody in, though.
I know, because he wasn't even supposed to go back in there, but he's not passed enough
a guard, he told his son.
Okay.
I don't think they forced anybody out yet, no.
But do they?
If it gets really bad?
If the governor declares it a disaster, yes they will.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.