Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:18:59 -0500 From: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Yikes! Message-ID: <19970417151859.35164@murkwood.gaffaneys.com>
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They updated our flood prediction today, to between 50.5, and 51.5 feet of water tomorrow night or Saturday morning. The old recorded record is 50.81 feet [1897]. The gut feeling of the people around here is it will go over the 100 year height. At about 1:20 pm today, the civil defense sirens went off in our area, because they found some cracks in the dike in the area behind my house. The water had hit 50.26 feet, and was seeping through the dike. No houses have yet to be affected [and the city engineers think they can stabilize the dikes (cheer!)]. The current river level is 50.37 feet. They expect the water to stick around for up to two weeks [yuck! :-(]. It is unusual that the entire Red River should be near the flood crest all at the same time. My house is at 836 ft. above sea-level, the bottom of the river is 779 ft. above sea-level, so my house will be ok, but my whole block would probably be an island, should the dike actually give away. We still moved some stuff out of the basement, and set up the sump pump, should the water start seeping into the basement [yuck, sumps smell terrible!]. Nasty, Nasty... -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email No Food, No Water, No Power, No Problem - | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing KCNN - Blizzard/Flood '97 Slogan... | with companies that email ads.
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