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    20 years later: Remembering the destruction of Gaston

    By 12 On Your Side Newsroom,

    2024-08-29
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    Cindy Greenfield
    08-30
    I couldn't get home.. took over 4 hours.. then when I did a portion of the apartment roof collapsed into my bedroom.. I couldn't get to work the next day . they fired me..
    juju live
    08-30
    nice day dat turn into every one worse night mare or apocalypse movie...skies was sunny,then came da dark cloud..worst part it was fall and leaves from the tree was falling.dis where everything went wrong.. city was preparing for leaf pickup day..worst disaster in a city i ever seen...rain started hard and cold rain drop.. people taught oh hell ,here we go coming home from work and rain..no something worse,no cleaning of da leaves and here we go.. from da rush of rain and it pushing all da leaves down da drains,it was a overflow on drain pipes..den came da flood... remember getting a call drom a friend saying ot was flooding where they are..at dat point i decided to make my way down Chamberlain, thinking day was high ground...oh yeah..you started to see people in there car water to da top of there driver door.. screaming for den to get out of there cars was all i could do before having to swim for it must myself....what a day...
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