Flood Call 453

A caller asking about the condition of 10th Avenue South and 11th Avenue South.

Date	April 18th 1997, 11:41 pm
Duration	109 seconds
Channel	25
Direction	incoming call
Abstract By	Emily Mell
Tagged As	Emergency Operations Center (EOC) evacuation orders 11th Avenue South 10th Avenue South

Transcript

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Law enforcement center, could you hold please?
Thank you.
Law enforcement center.
Yeah, I was wondering what they're saying about 10th Avenue South and 7th Avenue South.
Excuse me, right now they're requesting an involuntary evacuation of the whole city.
Of the whole city?
Yep, so if you have someplace else to go, that's what they're recommending at this point.
Okay, because the water is all the way up here and it's coming.
Yeah, I bet.
I'm like, it's coming out of the ground or something.
Yep, actually the EOC has been relocated, they're relocating right now to the university because the police department's flooding out here,
so we're just waiting until they get their lines hooked up and we're going to be heading over there too.
Okay, so all this area, we're behind levers.
Yeah, I would recommend, you know, it's not mandatory at this time, they're just saying that it's probably everybody's best interest to ask someplace else to go.
If not, they're still having Red River as a shelter and the army on West 47th, so like I said, right now it's just voluntary.
Okay, so they're not making an absolutely mandatory area?
No, not in the area you're at, not yet.
I mean, I haven't heard anything about evacuation or anything, but the other thing you can do is call this number back in about 20 minutes because the EOC is going to be reconnected
and they probably have more information because this left, we heard like 45 minutes ago, so.
Do they, can you report areas that are flooded or?
I'm assuming that's what they're going to be doing when they get back up.
We don't have that information right now.
Because I'll tell you now, we're getting flooded.
Okay, I'm pretty glad to get out of there then.
All right.
Thank you, bye-bye.