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Way OT - Jamestown's flood
The rain came down, and our local newspaper decided that our moment of
glory had come, and sent things to You Tube. Where I live - Jamestown, North Dakota. 15,000 maniacs in my tribe. The most pathetic You Tube video ever made. My home town during the big rainstorm on Wednesday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heV1H...eature=related Yes, the rain was so severe that some cars got their tires wet. If nothing else, that at least shows you that we have ancient wooden-framed corrugated sheet-steel covered elevators right downtown. That's the only one in the town that hasn't blown up in a grain dust explosion and burned to the ground yet. There used to be around five of those, but we lost one around every decade on average As a guesstimate, I'd say that one was made somewhere around 1910 - 1920. At least this is better, as our lads show that they'll drive through anything. After four-foot-deep snowdrifts, two-foot-deep water isn't even going to slow them down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s__cfrx7_Q "Yah, that was some rainstorm, wasn't it?" "Yah, you betcha that was some rainstorm. I haven't seen one like that for quite a few years." "Do you think the bullheads will swim out of the river and come right uptown?" "They might... I think we should get our fishin' stuff out." "Yah, them bullheads taste good, but its hard to get their gol-dang skin off." "You just use a lock-wrench on it... that will pull that skin off as clean as you ever saw." "Yah? "Yah. My father taught me that...but back then they didn't have lock-wrenches. He had to use pliers like they did back in the old country." "The old country... like in Norway?" "No, back in////// Ypsilanti. Before we came to the big city." :-D Pat |
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