Flood Call 619

Operator answers and a man responds, but then a woman comes on the line and talks with the operator and man is no longer on the line. They are related (sisters?) and have a conversation about other family members and a possible evacuation.

Date April 18th 1997, 9:38 pm
Duration 85 seconds
Channel 25
Direction incoming call
Abstract By Erin Lurie
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Transcript

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Hello?
Hello?
I'm sorry.
Who's this?
Hello?
Hello?
Hi.
This is Kristin.
I was going to call you.
Who am I talking to?
This is Kelly.
Hi Kelly.
Hi.
Is your mom and dad home?
No.
Okay.
Have you got water?
Not able to check.
Why the hell do they have to go get groceries now?
They weren't going to get groceries.
They were just going to get gas.
She said they were going to get gas and get some groceries.
They've been gone for a long fucking time.
I know.
They left when we got here at 8.
Yeah.
They're going to have a voluntary evacuation at the end of the day.
So I'm trying to get a hold of them and I have no idea.
Where are they?
I don't know.
You don't have water?
You're okay?
Yeah, we're okay.
We just went down by the...
Who are you with?
Brian and Mark and Mandy.
Well, Brian may want to call his house or wherever his parents are because the mayor's
coming out at 10 o'clock and is going to try to request an evacuation of the city and have
people get to the base or go out of town.
Really?
Really?
I don't know what's going to happen.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Who are you with?
I'm with us.
Okay.
We have the phone number.
Who do you have with us?
Craig has the fuel drive but I need to stay in contact with you.
Okay.
Do you want to contact them or do you wanter contact them, if we need to, I'll have Craig
come pick you up.
Okay?
Okay.
So we got the fuel drive and if you're not yet, we'll try to help you know.
Mona, you'll have them.
We'll call me immediately.
If the phone's here, don't work.
Call with a cell phone.
Okay.
It okay?
Okay, it's okay, I'm not trying to scare you, I just want to get you a little bag ready.
Okay.
Well, we got all this stuff ready.
Okay, alright, okay, bye.
Bye.
Bye.