[AG-EQ] JB calling from a soggy Gore

[Jody ianuzzi]

Hello Jewel,

Oh Em Gee! Be safe! Hope the water level goes down soon

JODY

To Boldly Go  🖖🏻 


thunderwalker321 at gmail.com 

"What's within you is stronger than what's in your way."  NO BARRIERS  Erik Weihenmayer

> On Feb 4, 2020, at 11:48 PM, Jewel via AG-EQ <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Sam Duthey rang me last night to enquire if the Civil Defence people had come to see me?  they were 
> visiting all East Gore and telling the populace to be prepared for evacuation.  I told him that they
> hadn't, or if they had, they did it very quietly, not coming into the hall and singing out:  I turn 
> the light on at night.
> I wasn't going to evacuate, well, not if I could help it.  The bank, orat least the part that runs 
> through The BlanchRanch has never been breached and it was heightened by another  18 inches after 
> the flood that washed the Mataura township away in 84, or thereabouts.
> About 7 this morning, there was a lot of banging on the backdoor, and there they were:  the civil 
> defence, saying that I must evacuate!, protest as much as I could!
> I didn't take anything with me as I was determined that as soon as I could, I would be back.  Sam 
> had said, when he rang me last night, that I was welcome to stay at the Duthey Hacienda which is 
> towards the town end of Huron Street and is on a hill, so all I took with me was Guideon.
> I stuck it out until about midday and then asked Sam to bring me back here.  He agreed with me that 
> I, really, was in no danger, despite the fact that longterm Gore residents said that it was the 
> biggest/highest flood that they had seen;  but what about  Civil Defence?  "to hell and glory with 
> Civil Defence:  said I, well, I didn't use those precise words, having note that he  was a clergyman 
> of sorts, albeit it a presbyterian one!  They could go and sail their paper boats on the river. 
> If they found out, he could claim that as I am 44 years his senior, what else could he do?  She has 
> a wicken feather duster should she choose to use it!!  so here I am, safe and dryshod with a flock 
> of contented sheep on top of the bank:  they too are in no danger of having their feet swept out 
> from under them!
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