A note from Tanya Obsbury

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From timmib on 9/19/2013 10:16:38 AM

I sent an email to Tanya wondering how the flooding had effected them. Her response:

"Thanks Kim. Tell Kent hi and we miraculously are OK!

Thanks for checking in...we are OK...with minimal damage to banjos. Mostly core veneers for making rims and resonators, and cases were damaged, and metal parts in boxes on the floors were covered in mud, in addition to the entire shop. Two floods came in, one on Thursday and then Friday again, and covered the shop with about 4 inches of water each time which when receded left a fine, stinky mess. So lots of cleaning...

We will start shipping again next week and it will be a few weeks we hope before we are back to normal. Still planning on going to IBMA
next week and then Dad is headed to Winfield, KS today.

The mountain areas are very bad, and so are low lying plains. Boulder itself has mostly damaged basements and yards, some streets washed out. Check out the photos at Denver Post."

3 Comments
McUtsi says: 9/19/2013 1:43:06 PM That is,after all,good news...Thanks,Tanya...I realize that my emotional bond w/ the ODE-Baldwin-OME continuum is very strong...I was worried...McUtsi
	BrittDLD1 says: 9/20/2013 8:32:02 AM I had sent Tanya and Chuck a similar email. Tanya replied BEFORE they had been able to get to the shop. (And there were other properties, in danger, as well.) Chuck called me from the shop, and gave me a rundown on the damage. They were mucking-out for the second tme, as Tanya mentioned to you. For those who don't know... The OME shop is right down on the flood plain, near to the 3 main reservoir lakes. All I could envision was their building under 8 or 10 feet of water. But Chuck had put sandbags around the building -- which limited the water damage.
	timmib says: 9/20/2013 10:53:43 AM I'd gotten a real surprise when I finally got a chance to look at a flood map. Britt, your comment about 8 to 10 feet of water was what was going thru the back of my mind when I wrote Tanya. I'm happy all the folk seem to be well.
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