Happy New Year
The river seemed to recede almost as quickly as it rose, but the whole episode threw everyone and everything through a loop for a few hours. While I was slinging sandbags and gathering up belongings in case we were ordered to evacuate, Melissa, talented professional that she is, went into full-on journalist mode (on her day off, no less) and spent the day working to produce TV coverage for our local NBC affilate. She worked a very long day, but as a reward she was allowed to take the evening off (she was scheduled to produce live coverage of New Year's Eve on Virginia Street) so we got to spend the evening together.
As expected New Year's Eve celebrations went on as planned, although the crowds were smaller than everyone might have hoped. After dinner at our friend Hannah's house we came downtown to The Green Room for midnight. It sort of bugged me that at about five minutes to midnight some guy ran up to the microphone and without a clock or a watch just announced that it was ten seconds to midnight, then started counting down. Everyone went along with it because, you know, what the hell. Still it bugs me. It wasn't really midnight, dammit!!!
Anyway, just before the clock hit twelve Melissa and I took this, our last picture of 2005.
I Hope everyone had a happy New Year's Eve. Here's to a better and hopefully flood-free 2006.
posted by Yukon Sully | 10:23 AM
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The cities of Sparks and Reno were on the news channels all Sunday afternoon, so we could watch the flooding for hours. I did see familiar buildings in downtown Reno on Fox. How were people notified to come out and start sandbagging? Apparently I-80 will be closed for a few more days around Truckee due to mudslides. That's California for you-- one natural disaster after another. We down here in Alabama just have an occasional hurricane -- no biggie.
No one was notified to come help; people just came out to help when they saw the water rising and other people working to minimize the damage.
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