Flood Call 311

Caller asked if she should evacuate from her location on Cottonwood. The dispatcher said that the voluntary evacuation recommended that people should evacuate if they had somewhere to go. She added that she would personally recommended that she leave that particular area. The caller inquired about emergency shelters because it would be hard for her to leave town. The dispatcher said that the Emergency Operations Center would be better able to assist her, but their phones were down while they were relocating to the UND campus.

Date	April 19th 1997, 12:40 am
Duration	70 seconds
Channel	25
Direction	incoming call
Abstract By	Lucas Amundson
Tagged As	Emergency Operations Center (EOC) University of North Dakota (UND) Cottonwood Street

Transcript

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Yeah, I'm here at Vignes College from 1304 Cottonwood, and I was wondering if you should
leave the house and go to Red River.
We're at 1304 Cottonwood.
Okay.
Right now, all I can tell you is they're requesting a voluntary evacuation of Grand Forks.
But in your area, I guess personally I would recommend if you can get out to go to Red
River, because that's still open as a shelter.
Yeah.
Well, what about if we have to get out of there, then what?
Because he's a high patient, too, you see.
Okay.
If we couldn't take off and go out of town, we'd have no place to go there.
Okay.
I don't know.
You'd probably have to call this number back in like a half an hour.
What's happened is our emergency operations center had to be evacuated.
Yes.
And they're over at UND, and their lines aren't hooked up yet.
Uh-huh.
So we're still waiting for that.
But they would probably have more suggestions if you just called back to the same number
in about a half an hour.
The reason I'm calling, too, is I was wondering if we have to turn the power off in the water
before we go.
Okay.
Or if NSP would turn that off.
I'm not real sure.
So you probably could give them a call.
The other thing, what I have heard is that NSP can do it from the outside the house without
getting in.
Okay.
Can you hang on just one second?