Ed and Ann Stalcup row away from their flooding house
Title
Ed and Ann Stalcup row away from their flooding house
Description
Ed and Ann Stalcup, with their pets, row away in the rain on a floating bed from their flooding house at 3767 Rodeo Grounds, in a cartoon from the article "Baptism by Fire and Flood" by Ann Stalcup.
"In January ’69, the weather was so bad, it was obvious that a flood was inevitable.... We got busy stacking our furniture and clothes higher and higher. It was pitch dark. The water was icy cold. A thick fence around the property was acting as a fairly efficient filter, preventing the mud from being too thick. When the water was a foot deep, we went back to bed. It was the driest place to be. The water level seemed to be stationary. At 5 a.m. we realized that the bed was floating. The water was considerably deeper. We got dressed (as best we could on a moving bed), gathered up pillows, blankets and dog and left the house. The icy water was up to my armpits."
-- Ann Stalcup
"In January ’69, the weather was so bad, it was obvious that a flood was inevitable.... We got busy stacking our furniture and clothes higher and higher. It was pitch dark. The water was icy cold. A thick fence around the property was acting as a fairly efficient filter, preventing the mud from being too thick. When the water was a foot deep, we went back to bed. It was the driest place to be. The water level seemed to be stationary. At 5 a.m. we realized that the bed was floating. The water was considerably deeper. We got dressed (as best we could on a moving bed), gathered up pillows, blankets and dog and left the house. The icy water was up to my armpits."
-- Ann Stalcup
Date
1969, 1990
Source
B Messenger
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Creator
Jody Roberts
Publisher
Messenger, 1990-03-08