Flood Call 1942

A resident on Cottonwood asking for information on possibility of blocking off the street to keep sight seers from splashing water up on that are sandbagging and evacuating.

Date April 18th 1997, 1:59 pm
Duration 60 seconds
Channel 24
Direction incoming call
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Yeah, my name is Dennis Johnson. I live at 1017 Cottonwood. There's a police officer
in a patrol car at the corner of 13th and Cottonwood by South Junior, and it seems like
people are driving up and down here. We've got about two or three feet of water on this
street at any one time, and they're just splashing and making waves. Could he pull across that
street and block it? Oh, um... Would that be possible?
Um, that's up to the EOC which streets are blocked, and that's not one that they're going
to block yet. Well, they've got it blocked at the north
end. Okay.
I don't know why they don't block at the other, because all these people are doing is sloshing
water up on the people that are trying to take sandbags across the roads and everything
else. I mean, all it is is just sightseers. Nobody's doing anything.
If you want, you can call down to the EOC and see if they're willing to do that.
Oh, the line's been busy a hundred times. So they won't block it off just to keep them
out of here? Oh, I don't know if they will or if they won't.
That's just not one that they've... Okay.