Flood Call 1512
A caller giving the operator a general update on the situation down at the dikes.
| Date | April 18th 1997, 1:04 pm |
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| Duration | 114 seconds |
| Channel | 24 |
| Direction | incoming call |
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Transcript
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Hello.
Hi.
How goes the battle, dear?
Oh, just fine here.
How about there?
Oh, we're losing.
Are ya?
The sandbags are not holding it back, and...
Water coming in.
Well, we got pumped maintaining it, but we ran out of sand and we were waiting for a
truck and been sitting idle for a while, and now we lost all of our people, and...
Yeah.
Priscilla called to check on our load of sand and see if we could get another 25 volunteers
out here.
With this clay dyke they got on the road.
Yeah.
It's saturating through and they're building it up.
They're hauling trucks in and they're lazing it up another couple of feet.
Right.
Over on the corner of Columbia and 81.
Ardell's got his horses in his garage.
Oh, man.
And he's got his cows.
He cut the fence over at Pepsi, put his cows over at Pepsi, and we lost everybody.
Chad and Kent and Tim were here for a while, but then they went back to the shop because
the shuttle was in and they have to unload that.
I said, I'm Dan, and Kent says, take care of your family, man.
We got sand, we got bags from the semi we got.
Little Ennis sent a semi for us.
Really?
Yeah.
Rocky was out with his uncle Gary, which is Gary's wife, his little brother.
Oh.
So the guy just says, I got a flatbed truck, I got a semi from American Woods, we'll get
you a load up.
So that's like 20 pallets of sand maybe to be unloaded, but we're starting to use it
up now.
Hmm.
Debbie and I went and bought about $50 worth of groceries, sandwich meat, buns, chip-pop,
chips and stuff, and I gave Priscilla the receipt to turn it in.
So, feed these people.
Right.
Because they didn't, they had some stuff.
I still have all that pop in the van.
Yeah, I know.
Now if you guys get evacuated, I'll never get that van out of there.
I'm going to take it when I go.
Okay.
Are they still talking about that?
Some of the things have slowed down.
Okay.
The decks are holding right now.
Okay.
Yeah, Rocky, come on, she was on the east side there and they were kind of talking about
letting the decks go, like Lincoln or something.
No.
Couldn't keep up or?
Well, maybe in Lincoln.
The water's coming over the top.
Yeah, Lincoln and Riverside?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, keep me posted on what's going on.
They did have a leak by James Avenue and they were going to evacuate East Grand Fork,
but they changed that.
They got it under control.
Okay.
Well, we're going to try to do what we can here.
Okay.
Alrighty.
Okay, talk to you later.
Yep.