Paint Lick Flood of 2010

We are slowly recovering from the great flood of Paint Lick, 2 May 2010. After receiving a phone call about our truck being underwater, Piper and I drove down to the office and remained in the building during the flood, thus we were able to save most of all our important equipment (computers, etc.) and files. The office had about 30 inches of water in the downstairs portion of our building. All of our desks (made from particle board) did a great job at absorbing the water, thus keeping the water level to a minimum! The office now has a strong musky smell, even when Price is not here! Hopefully all of the fans we have running will dry out the building this year! One of our trucks and our 4-wheeler were tested for submarine status. I am very disappointed in the swimming ability of some field equipment such as transmitters, receivers, GPS units, cameras, etc. As it turns out, the cleaning of the office took all of last week including the weekend just to get the office to a place we could set our computers back up. If there were more than 24 hours in a day it may not have taken this long to get out a message. We are actually getting to the point that we are starting to work on project related tasks again but the cleaning will continue for several weeks if not for most of the summer.

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