Flood Call 1703

A resident of 4th Avenue South called to ask about evacuation plans and the amount of time they had.

Date April 18th 1997, 8:49 pm
Duration 65 seconds
Channel 24
Direction incoming call
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law enforcement center can I help you yeah we're just trying to find out what
this uh flooding going on the evacuation where do you live okay
we're at 823 4th avenue south uh they just evacuated the 700 block
you're a block away if i were you i would go
oh okay 100 to 700 block of south 4th street is evacuated
okay what they're doing now they're getting those people out that's
mandatory right we're on 4th avenue is what i'm
saying 4th avenue yeah we're right by the overpass and what
we're we're worried about is we want to know if the water is going
to be able to recede up to this part so we can get out early
that's what i that's okay i like i said right now on 4th avenue south they
evacuated the first up to the 200 blocks okay
uh you're at the 800 block right um i guess right now what i can say is i
would be prepared that's a mandatory evacuation
that they just issued right that's not saying how long it's going to be before
your area is going to be evacuated okay so if you've got some place to go now
where it's going to be higher i would go if i were you
okay okay great thank you bye