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| Jack and Joan Getz |
| Jack and Joan Getz tell of their experience living within a block of Rapid Creek during the 1972 Rapid City flood. Jack was a reporter for the Rapid City Journal and was on duty in the newsroom to record events as they unfolded in the hours just after the disaster. |
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| Hiland Aughenbaugh |
| Mr. Aughenbaugh expresses his thoughts and tells the story of his experiences during the flood, when he was working as a groundskeeper at Sioux San Hospital. |
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| Min Lighter Quarnberg |
| Mrs. Quarnberg (105) and daughters Jane Nieland and Lynn Payne describe the night of the flood and the resulting damage to the Quarnberg home and belongings -- in an interview conducted in Rapid City on 4/26/06. |
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| Frank Parker |
| Mr. Parker was owner/operator of Marv's Wrecker Service in Rapid City and was personally involved in several rescues in the early hours of the flood. He talks about the ordeal of hanging onto a power pole for 4 hours in rising water. In the months following, his business towed thousands of damaged automobiles out of the wreckage. Interview conducted in Rapid City on 1/11/06. |
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| Mabel HeinemanN |
| Flood survivor Mabel Heinemann talks about the damage to the restaurant she and her husband owned: Dick's Drive-In. The restaurant was located on Canyon Lake Drive, near Canyon Lake Dam which failed during the flood. |
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