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As most
of you are aware on August 4th, or as we refer to it now as the
Great Flood of 09, the basement at the lodge took a direct
hit and had five feet of water. We lost several old records
going back to 1902, but we were able to recover many others.
It’s going to be a long process of drying them out and refiling
them. I have them at home in my deep freeze, and we are taking
them out a bag at a time and drying them slowly.
It has been three weeks now and we have started rebuilding the
basement offices back and hope to be back in operation by the
middle of September. Some have express their concerns about us
going back to the basement with our offices but this may never
happen again, and we are using this experience to learn from our
mistakes. Such as all important file and equipment will be
stored on the second floor. All we can do at this point is hope
to minimize our losses if it was to happen again.
Suburban Lodge is strong and we will survive this. Many of our members
also had flood damage to their own homes, such as our Master,
Mark Galloway, for one. We are doing the restoration of the basement ourselves in order to save some money. Insurance covered most of
the damage, such as the $8,850.00 repairs to the elevator and
the $10,000.00 clean up, and $5,000.00 to the lost of the
newsletter equipment. We have received some donations from some
of the members that will be used to replace computers and office
equipment. I would like to thank all who have pitched in to help
with this effort.
Go to the photo gallery section and view the photos of the Flood of 09, or
by clicking on the link below:
http://www.suburban740.org/basementflooding08042009.htm
Fraternally Thine,
Joe Marshall -
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