Flood Call 480

A caller asking about if they should evacuate.

Date April 18th 1997, 11:57 pm
Duration 81 seconds
Channel 25
Direction outgoing call
Abstract By Emily Mell
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Transcript

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Yeah, hi. I don't know if I'm calling the right place, but we need, I guess we're kind
of worried about, we're far out here. I mean, we live in Park Manor. I mean, should we be
worried about evacuating or what?
Right now they're calling for a city-wide voluntary evacuation. What they mean by that
is if you have some place to go, they're recommending to go, but if not, right now it's up to you
to go, but I guess if I could tell you, we're not doing any mandatory evacuations other
than what they've already done, but I just don't know what's going to happen as far as
if the river keeps rising, you know, the backing up in the sewer system and stuff. So the other
thing is the EOC center had to evacuate from the police department, so they're over at
UND, but their lines aren't hooked up yet. And if you could just call back in a half
an hour, they're supposed to have their lines up and they might be able to help you more
as far as what's going on.
Okay. Do you know the numbers go right there?
It's the same number, but it's not hooked up yet. It just rolls over to ours until I
get theirs re-hooked up.
Okay. So just this number that I just dialed is the number that they're going to have,
but not for another half hour.
Right. And hopefully it'll be the half hour. They've been working hard to get them reconnected,
but they're having some problems. So if not, you'll get one of us again already.
Thanks a lot. Bye-bye.