Thursday, May 01, 2008

Great Job guys during the rain storm

Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain...... and it did on Tuesday night!
I went to the Snap of the Dragon at 4:15 pm and the ditches and fields were rising, but within an hour on the way home, drain/ditch water was were starting to edge out into the roadways.
The Abbott Dam and the town dam were flowing with brown crashing cascades of water! All that in an hour.
When I got home, I had the scanner on listening to our highway, facilities and police all talking quickly to the dispatcher. The dispatcher was relaying messages of flooded roadways faster than Officer Emerson could get from one to another.
I heard Highway supervisor Mike Delaware instructing his crew from on flooded out road to another and the Chief radioed in and said he was there to help with his own truck, what could he do?
At one point, the funniest thing said, was Officer Emerson saying to dispatch, "Could you call the DOT boys and ask them if they will come out and play with us tonight?"
Road after road were being closed, barricaded and/or warned about.
With all that said, I just want to say, "great job guys"! I was proud of our Town crews and want to say thanks for a job well done!

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