Flood Call 202
The caller asks the LEC operator if he needs to evacuate his home on 28th Ave S, just beyond 17th St.; the operator responds that there is a voluntary evacuation of the entire city, but nobody else is required to evacuate. She also explains that EOC had to evacuate and should have their lines up by 11:30 p.m.
| Date | April 18th 1997, 11:13 pm |
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| Duration | 66 seconds |
| Channel | 25 |
| Direction | incoming call |
| Abstract By | Emily Mell |
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Transcript
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Yeah, I've got a question for you.
I hope I can answer it.
I live over on, I live in the building and it's on 28th Avenue South.
Okay, just beyond 17th, I think is what it is, down by right L.
I'm wondering, how safe is this area for water?
Well, what they're doing now is they're calling for a voluntary evacuation of Grand Forks.
If you have someplace else to go, basically is what they're saying, because they don't know how fast the water is going to keep coming.
But otherwise, they're not evacuating anything that far west yet.
Okay, the water has to come across South Washington to get to us.
Where's the water at right now?
To be honest with you, I don't know. This is law enforcement center.
The EOC is actually being moved because we're getting flooded here at the police department.
And so they're moving over to the university and their lines aren't reconnected yet.
So I don't know exactly where the water is at or anything.
So if you could just call back at the same number, they should be able to help you.
And they said they should have the lines up by like 1130.
Okay.
That's what we're shooting for anyway.
All right.
Okay, thank you.
Thanks.