[Vision2020] Family Housing flooded: Re; school facilities di scussion

[Tom Hansen]

I tend to agree, Mr. Carscallen.

I was living in Park Village Apartments (PVA) in February 1996 when the 
flood hit.

The Wallace Residents Office sent a person door to door in PVA that day to 
inform us that we basically had three hours to evacuate.

Paradise Creek, that is usually no more than a few inches deep at its 
deepest point, flooded our ground floor apartment with almost four feet of 
water.  I lost virtually everything in the apartment.

UI was nice enough, however, to offer the effected residents a $1,000 
interest-free loan, which came in handy, as my wife and I spent the next ten 
days in the Mark IV Hotel.  All this occurred during the last semester of my 
senior year at UI.

Trust me.  You don't understand stress and pressure until you have had to 
continue with senior projects, exams, etc. etc. while moving from a flooded 
apartment into a hotel room, and from there (luckily) into our current 
apartment.

It was fun.

If intersted, I have loads of photos of the flood.  contact me off list and 
I will share . . .

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


>From: "Area Man" <areaman at moscow.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Family Housing flooded: Re;school facilities di 
>scussion
>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:34:33 -0800
>
>Donovan says:
>". . . having seen the damage myself, that the water overflowed and that
>was horrible planning to build there under those circumstances. But it
>will not happen again, the University widened the channel and moved it
>over. They are not going to let their 15 million dollar recreation
>center and 20 million dollar new student housing units get wet."
>
>Don't bet the farm on that, man.  You can do all the planning for
>flooding  you want, but there's always something that can throw a wrench
>into the works.  If we get another heavy icepack that breaks up and gets
>jammed under the various bridges and culverts around town the rec center
>is vulnerable.  All the channelling in the world can't predict what
>could happen.  Of course, the U of I is giving it the ol' "college try."
>(how pun-tastic is that?!?!)
>
>It's not nice to fool Mother Nature,
>
>DC
>
>
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