Flood Call 534

Operator calls Craig and tells him that voluntary evacuations are starting. Says her basement is filling in and that he needs to be safe and stay close to home.

Date April 18th 1997, 9:25 pm
Duration 55 seconds
Channel 25
Direction outgoing call
Abstract By Erin Lurie
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Transcript

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Hello.
Greg?
Yeah.
Where are you at?
Um, Sylvia's farm.
Okay, you're going to quit.
They're going to, at 10 o'clock, they're going to cross, they want to go to voluntarily
evacuate the city.
At 10 o'clock.
At 10 o'clock, the mayor is going on, asking everyone to voluntarily evacuate.
Okay.
I don't know where you're working on your stuff, but you're going to get caught.
I think water's coming up two feet at a time.
Our basement's filling in.
Okay.
Here.
All right.
So I don't know.
Is her hat going to come on?
She's supposed to come on at 10 o'clock.
Okay.
Sometime on the news, so I don't know what you're doing.
If you need to, please.
Mom and Dad are out getting groceries.
Kelly's on 32nd.
So I'm trying to, uh, I'm trying to get ahold of them, but, um, if you can just stay close
to home.
Yeah, I will.
Okay.
I'm going to keep trying to call you, and I'm going to try to get ahold of Mom and Kelly.
Okay.
Okay?
All right.
And maybe, I don't know if I have to unplug the freezer or whatever, but if they call
you, you find out what we need to do for water and things.
All right.
Okay, bye.