9/1/05

roanoke.com - Commentary Stories -History, efficiency, safety and cost argue for saving Fire Station No. 1

This ones for Rhett.



And heres a follow up I had not previously thought of: Downtown is in the process of gaining residents. With condos and apartments being built in some of the older buildings, if I remember - the current estimate of people living downtown will be roughly 3-400 by years end. Next year it could be double that. Your going to ask these people to wait 8-10 minutes for a truck to scramble from Elm and make its way downtown?

Lack of a quicker response time might make downtown a less attractive place to live.

Just a thought.

Allegedly 9 days to the groundbreaking for the AMWV. Don't think I've forgotten.

Don't worry, its coming.

Oh, and after we have seen what happened in New Orleans, a group of friends were talking about the flood of 85 again. Considering this is going to be the 20th anniversary of the flood come Nov. I have to ask, think the AMWV would survive it?

Heres a look at the current location of the AMWV, back in 85, courtesy of Tommy Firebaugh.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

But it looks like there is water in the streets. Is that a little rain.

RoanokeFound said...

how about 5 feet + of water standing in the streets. I think it was up to about 8 feet in some spots if not more.

Little Rain?