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Interviewees:
Curly Lapointe
Sue Karpick
Interviewer: Mark Nabess
Date: Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
Location: Sam Waller Museum Library

MN
How devastating was that for the farm?

CL
Well that flood…the flood came so quick all the farms not only us had about two days to move stuff.

(Interruption)

CL
How quick the water came…

MN
Ok, go on.

CL
I mean not to drown people but you had to start thinking to get the cows out, chickens, livestock, anything you had. Most of the machinery stayed right out there throughout the flood. There was about five feet of water all over throughout the Carrot River Valley. You couldn't see the fence posts. So dad moved the chickens up in the hayloft, some up the stairs in the house, second story, and Sue lived there. Surrounded by water she had a boat tied by the door and dad had built on Gordon Avenue, a temporary chicken coop and he moved the cows, there used to be stockyards there. That's where his cattle stayed plus they pastured all around the rail yard with getting runned over, pretty good eh? Everybody was very cooperative ya know, on the railroad. Watch out for that cow! And it lasted till late summer then everybody back that didn't move out of The Pas all together, moved back to their homes; start repairing the damage. Curled up floors right? And then life, by fall life was back to normal. But 1948 was the flood.