Flood Call 1569
A caller asking for information on the Kennedy Bridge and general evacuation orders.
| Date | April 18th 1997, 5:37 am |
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| Duration | 75 seconds |
| Channel | 24 |
| Direction | incoming call |
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Transcript
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I work on the east side, and I'm wondering whether or not I need to go to work.
Well, at this point, the Kennedy Bridge is open.
All I can tell you is that we're evacuating Lincoln Drive area.
We are going to start evacuating the low-lying areas near the other parks, Central, Riverside,
and that we are going to be telling everybody else within the city that they need to, if
they have a basement or a garden-level place to move to a first floor, it's possible that
the Lincoln Park dike will fail, and then water will come into the streets.
And the Kennedy Bridge won't.
I have no idea about the Kennedy Bridge at this point.
Do you know who I would call to find out?
Your talk probably is the person that's going to be able to tell you.
At this point, it's open.
I can't tell you what's going to happen if that dike fails.
Nobody knows.
All I know is we're going to get water in the streets.
I don't know where you work on the east side.
I work at Hugo's on the east side.
Yeah, I guess I will talk to your employer whether they want you traveling over there.
Well, that's what I mean.
If I'm going to get stuck on the east side for a week, I'm not going to go to work.
I can't tell you what's going to happen.
Okay, thank you very much.
Yep, bye-bye.