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Getting To Work Via A Canoe

Getting To Work Via A Canoe
BARRY WHITTEN donned a life jacket and grabbed his just-purchased canoe to get to work at Modine Manufacturing in Buena Vista the morning of the Election Day Flood of 1985.

On the day of the Flood of 85 I was working in the engineering department of Modine Manufacturing in Buena Vista. The previous day and night it rained as I had never seen but one other time and that was during the Flood of 1969 from Hurricane Camille.

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