9-9-72	BILL DUHAMEL COMMENTS ON SECOND FLOOD SITUATION
SAYS HE WAS AT THE STUDIO THE EVENING OF SECOND AROUND 5 P.M. FLOOD THREAT (DATE?) WHEN SOME WOMAN CALLED/TO REPORT SHE HAD SEEN A TORNADO NORTHWEST OF RAPID CITY. SHE SAID HER HUSBAND WORKED FOR IAS, AND BILL SAYS HE CALLED THE HUSBAND AND HE SAID THERE HAD BEEN TORNADO FORM. BILL THEN CALLED US WEATHER BUREA, AND THEY INDICATED AT LEAST A PARTIAL TORNADO HAD FORMED, RUT NOW HAD DISIPATED. BILL SAID WE'D BEEN RECEIVING CALLS, SO WANTED TO PUT SOMETHING ON THE AIR. WEATHER BUREA SAID THEY'D GET SOMETHING TOGETHER AND CALL BACK. THEY D I D AT ABOUT 5:55 WHEN THEY ISSUED THE HEAVY RAIN WARNING (FOR WHAT AREA AND PREC8SCELY WHA T2 X KIND OF  STORM CONDITIONS). WE PUT THE TAPE ON RADIO AND ON TV, THEN ABOUT 6 pm I CALLED BARNETT/ WHO WAS AT CITY HALL). HE HAD HEARD NOTHING, AND BILL PLAYED THE TAPE FOR HIM. BARNETT SAID, "OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO PULL THE PLUG OUT." BILL SAYS A FEW MINUTES LATER THE SIRENS WERE BLOWING WHAT SIRENS). BARNETT THEN CAME TO STUDIO AND MADE THE "MARSHALL LAW" STATEMENT, ETC...

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DURING FIRST FLOOD EMERGENCY, BILL D. SAYS MONTE HEARD BASTA SAY ON TV AFTER 10PM "IF YOU BALANCE YOUR LIFE AND LIMB, GET OUT."