Fargo, North Dakota- Mike Page - Pool Room
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Fo' shizzle!
For those of you who wish to improve your game, especially your mental game and who haven't taken the time to visit JoeW's website, I urge you to visit JoeW's Website to learn MANY things about improving your game.
It's going to take me a lot of time to read and digest all of what Joe has written but I already like what I have read.
Joe,
Thanks for all of your fine work. You are a credit to pool and players alike.
JoeyA
I talked with Marc Oelslager this weekend. He said Mike and his team are still making progress on the pool hall. He said they avoided a disaster recently. They had just put the roof on and they got about a foot of snow within the following days.
I haven't heard much besides that. I keep an eye on the flooding as I went to college in Fargo. www.in-forum.com is the local newspaper up there. You can get some information on there. They have the flood cams, and the rivers heights. It appears it is going to be pushing the record this year....a record they don't want to see.
I wish them the best.
I haven't heard much besides that. I keep an eye on the flooding as I went to college in Fargo. www.in-forum.com is the local newspaper up there. You can get some information on there. They have the flood cams, and the rivers heights. It appears it is going to be pushing the record this year....a record they don't want to see.
I wish them the best.
Hey thanks Joey.
So far so good.
We built a quarter mile long sandbag dike around my neighborhood yesterday (we're all on the river). 50,000 sand bags -- I'm the neighborhood contact with the city. Finished at 8:30 pm last night. I'm off now to coordinate volunteers to finish it off at one end.
I'm pretty tired, and I'm splitting my worry between my house, the construction site, and the storage bins that have all kinds of stuff for the room...
I'm optimistic everything will be fine...
pic from my house a couple days ago --already at flood stage.
So far so good.
We built a quarter mile long sandbag dike around my neighborhood yesterday (we're all on the river). 50,000 sand bags -- I'm the neighborhood contact with the city. Finished at 8:30 pm last night. I'm off now to coordinate volunteers to finish it off at one end.
I'm pretty tired, and I'm splitting my worry between my house, the construction site, and the storage bins that have all kinds of stuff for the room...
I'm optimistic everything will be fine...
pic from my house a couple days ago --already at flood stage.
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Wow! When is it supposed to crest? You aren't worried about your house? I'll be keeping you in my thoughts and my fingers crossed for you!
I was working in Cedar Rapids IA last June. On a Wednesday afternoon the river levels looked just like they do here http://www.inforum.com/pages/floodcam. By Thursday morning there was 5 feet of water over the bridges and still rising. Before it started to recede, the building I worked in, which was 1/2 block from the river, got 9' of water in the lobby. So many homes were completely wiped out, including some of my co-workers. Where I live (on the same river but north about 60 miles) the damage was less severe but still devastating. Downtown businesses were left with huge messes and one small island on the river, where there are some beautiful water-front homes, was under water. Last I checked, those people had not moved back in yet.
It was an event that was horrific at best and something me, my children and my grand-daughter, who was 6 at the time, will never forget. In fact, she still talks about it every time we go over a bridge.
I was working in Cedar Rapids IA last June. On a Wednesday afternoon the river levels looked just like they do here http://www.inforum.com/pages/floodcam. By Thursday morning there was 5 feet of water over the bridges and still rising. Before it started to recede, the building I worked in, which was 1/2 block from the river, got 9' of water in the lobby. So many homes were completely wiped out, including some of my co-workers. Where I live (on the same river but north about 60 miles) the damage was less severe but still devastating. Downtown businesses were left with huge messes and one small island on the river, where there are some beautiful water-front homes, was under water. Last I checked, those people had not moved back in yet.
It was an event that was horrific at best and something me, my children and my grand-daughter, who was 6 at the time, will never forget. In fact, she still talks about it every time we go over a bridge.
Good to hear you have made some preparations.
I read about the snow this morning too.
How high off the ground is your home?
(Make sure you have call-forwarding service at your home.)
JoeyA
People don't realize how much damage there was in Cedar Rapids as the media didn't dwell on it as much as Katrina, et al. I heard it was the worst natural disaster in recent history. Correct me if wrong, but there were over 25,000 homes destroyed.
Take care over there,
Jeff Livingston
The cold weather that brought that snow should help slow it down a bit.
Take care,
Jeff Livingston
What a beautiful back-yard view. Wishing you all the best. I hope you stay out of harm's way.
Just heard on the news that quite a few people from throughout the midwest are going out to help with the sandbags.
Anyone from AZB in the area that could go help keep Mike's pool hall afloat -- so to speak.
News people said it was going to crest at 41 feet.
According to this site http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nd/nwis/uv/?site_no=05054000
it is at 35 Plus feet now. From the looks of Mike's back yard he is gonna get hit.
According to thi site http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=fgf&gage=fgon8&view=1,1,1,1,1,1 They have about three more days until it gets to 41 feet. There is time for some people to go and help. I am 1,100 miles away and probably couldn't make it in time. I bet they can use all the help they can get.
Anyone from AZB in the area that could go help keep Mike's pool hall afloat -- so to speak.
News people said it was going to crest at 41 feet.
According to this site http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nd/nwis/uv/?site_no=05054000
it is at 35 Plus feet now. From the looks of Mike's back yard he is gonna get hit.
According to thi site http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=fgf&gage=fgon8&view=1,1,1,1,1,1 They have about three more days until it gets to 41 feet. There is time for some people to go and help. I am 1,100 miles away and probably couldn't make it in time. I bet they can use all the help they can get.
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Wow, good luck up there!
My wife and I were driving through from Waterloo weekend before last and it was simply creepy seeing all those flooded out empty neighborhoods. I really hope that people are able to rebuild, but there is so much damage.
Let us know how we can help. Flood damage is so terrible.
I just ran a search to see if any of our members are in the Fargo area and found this thread. Mike..... Sure hope things go well for you. Definitely would rattle the nerves for me!
JoeyA... good mention about the call forwarding. I generally forward my phone when away from home, like when we went to the Expo. When the tornado hit us in December, I had the phone forwarded to go pick Gene up from work, then shopping, then home. We had just arrived home and Gene had emptied the groceries from the car, when the tornado hit and knocked out all our electric. I had no clue where the phone with a cord was, to know if the phone lines were still up. But, the cordless phone was dead, because the electric was out for a day. Fortunately, we hadn't had time to unforward, so all our calls came to the cell phone. Using call forwarding has saved our tails more than once, "fo' shizzle!" (BTW, I love that phrase! Might adopt it. Hope you don't mind...)
Anyone else on the forum from the Fargo area?? Best wishes to all of you that the sand dikes hold up and nobody has any serious damage.
Floods SUCK!
I'll never forget last year's floods here in Eastern Iowa. I worked at a Ready Mix Co. located in Coralville, IA and of course our plant was located right next to the Iowa River that also flooded at record levels. I sandbagged for days and days and luckily our plant survived since we had built a 4' wall completely around it with our own stock of concrete blocks/sand/etc. Our neighboring businesses weren't so lucky. There are many businesses in Coralville that were devastated and will never return.
Here is a picture of the Coralville area at that time.......
The Ready mix plant is dead center in the pic about 1/3 of the way down from the top of the pic.
I hope Mike gets through this event in Fargo w/o any real damage.
I'll never forget last year's floods here in Eastern Iowa. I worked at a Ready Mix Co. located in Coralville, IA and of course our plant was located right next to the Iowa River that also flooded at record levels. I sandbagged for days and days and luckily our plant survived since we had built a 4' wall completely around it with our own stock of concrete blocks/sand/etc. Our neighboring businesses weren't so lucky. There are many businesses in Coralville that were devastated and will never return.
Here is a picture of the Coralville area at that time.......
The Ready mix plant is dead center in the pic about 1/3 of the way down from the top of the pic.
I hope Mike gets through this event in Fargo w/o any real damage.
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A serious flood has different ramifications for different people and a lot depends upon your perspective.
Some people see their life's collection of material goods lost forever and are inconsolable.
Others see this as an opportunity to start over new and fresh.
Others still, see this as a challenge to overcome.
Most people are so shocked that they can barely do anything for themselves. When they finally look around for some sympathy, they find very little as everyone of their neighbors are in the same situation and so each day they get up and put one foot in front of the other, blindly inching forward in their new life, not so sure that they really want to go on.
Flooding can happen ANYWHERE. Talk to your insurance agent to see if you have FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FLOOD INSURANCE. The cost of the flood insurance could be cheaper than sin depending upon where you live and IS A GOOD INVESTMENT even if you don't live in a bad flood zone.
Even with total devastation, flooded communities will rebuild. It takes time and money.
More money needs to be spent on rebuilding coastal areas, dams, levees, bridges, roads etc that are less prone to nature's ravages instead of fighting wars and saving financial empires, automotive manufacturers etc. from their own terrible business policies, imo.
JoeyA