After this weeks flooding in the Susquehanna River valley, there are a lot of people and small businesses that will not have much to restart with. I got dinky problems. Last fall I put the 55 body I had rebuilt, just the sheet metal, on a doner frame and took it to a friends body shop. He had never been flooded but I expect the water in the shop Wednesday morning was about four feet deep. Yesterday the water was down five feet from fourteen feet above flood stage, down to the previous record flood level, and travel was no longer restricted, so I headed off to see what I could do. On one end of the street a squad of New York State Troopers were using the road as a launch for their air boats and a National Guardsman was posted at the other end. I've never been comfortable arguing with people with guns. Maybe today. Bill
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17 years ago