Flood Call 1607
A resident of 20th Street South called to ask for information on getting back to his home.
| Date | April 18th 1997, 8:33 pm |
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| Duration | 140 seconds |
| Channel | 24 |
| Direction | incoming call |
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Transcript
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Yes, hello, hold on just a second.
The correction center is running into a lot of water.
I'm assuming it should not be more than about five minutes.
It's getting to the correction center.
Are you going across the merge or are you heading south?
Hold on just a second, sir.
Yes, can I help you?
Yes, I'm wondering, I'm out of town on Highway 81 North and I live on 20th Street.
Okay.
Now, are accesses blocked to getting back?
North 20th Street, South 20th Street?
This would be South 20th.
Okay, 100 blocks to South 20th Street.
1335.
1335 South 20th Street, as of right now, that I know of, does not have any major water bill.
There may be some from sewer backup, but that's about it.
Okay.
All right, not sewer, but storm sewers being inundated.
Okay.
Is Demers closed, somebody said?
Demers is not closed except at the sort of bridge that I know of.
That may be downtown, though.
Okay.
Before it's all done and over with and possibly across the English Coulee just west of the
Columbia Road River Pass.
Okay, so it might be closed down by the English Coulee?
Yep.
But that's hard to say.
Things are changing minute by minute.
Okay, now a 54-foot flood, is that correct?
Yes, sir.
Is that correct?
Yes, sir.
Is that correct?
Yes, sir.
Is that correct?
Yes, sir.
Is that correct?
Yes, sir.
Is that correct?
Yes, sir.
Is that correct?
Yes, sir.
Is that correct?
Yes, sir.
Is that correct?
A 54-foot flood, is that going to inundate a lot of Grand Forks?
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
In the city proper itself?
Yes, it is.
Both Grand Forks and East Grand Forks.
Wow.
So what are they recommending people do?
Well, you have to prepare for evacuation.
Okay.
Which would be, in that case, where do they usually send people?
That depends on where you're at at the time and which places they have open.
We've got a lot of calls coming in, sir.
I don't have time to answer a lot of questions.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.