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My town flooded, and my video was on CNN!

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Gretchen.
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Hate if you want, I'm stoked.  It aired sometime today, but I have no TV so I didn't watch.  Apparently none of the affiliates covered the flood, so they went to Youtube for video.  CNN called me this morning..  This is what they set up after I talked to a producer: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-496315
Sep 27 2010 7:15PM
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Gretchen.
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link that works?
Sep 27 2010 7:16PM
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BIG-DUMPS
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http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-496315
Sep 27 2010 7:16PM
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Gretchen.
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thanks
Sep 27 2010 7:16PM
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Schlop
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That's ridiculous! haha did you get payed for the footage?
Sep 27 2010 7:17PM
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SeanTom
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wat, i'm totally stoked your town flooded too!
Sep 27 2010 7:17PM
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BIG-DUMPS
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no problem
Sep 27 2010 7:17PM
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no_steeze
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yayyy i'm so stoked my town flooded!

that's you, that's what you sound like
Sep 27 2010 7:20PM
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Gretchen.
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No lol, I was just blown away they called me..
Sep 27 2010 7:22PM
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Gretchen.
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Obviously that's not why I'm stoked, but I could see how the thread title leads to that.  In reality though, no one was hurt and it was only material damage so that is something to be thankful for.
Sep 27 2010 7:23PM
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Gretchen.
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Umm, sketch? haha. 

My house is far from the river, and fine.  My dad's office building had waist deep water in the basement but his office is all on the second floor and the people down there were able to clean out their stuff in time.
Sep 27 2010 7:24PM
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BMB
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that's pretty dramatic footage, our river in our town over flowed too.

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zAAgqKASh_U?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zAAgqKASh_U?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAgqKASh_U

Sep 27 2010 7:33PM
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BMB
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.
Sep 27 2010 7:34PM
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Gretchen.
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I saw your town on the news!  Crazy!  Is everyone okay?
Sep 27 2010 7:35PM
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Dwight_Schrute
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A couple years ago I got to go canoeing in my front yard.
Sep 27 2010 7:36PM
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Snowcase
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Hope you got paid for that.
Sep 27 2010 7:38PM
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Abc567def
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i cants watch on my phones :(
Sep 27 2010 7:38PM
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Gretchen.
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That's so insane!  They were running the rescue speed boats down the streets but just to evacuate people!  Some friends of ours house flooded, and their family brought a row boat and still showed up for dinner on time!
Sep 27 2010 7:39PM
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