Yes there has been torrential rain here in DC for over a week now and several government buildings have flooded and had to shut down. I am sure that the documents at the Archives are fine. It is just that with water flowing into buildings with marble floors it can be very dangerous so they would not want to have people walking around there...
``The National Archives' Washington building also remained closed Tuesday, and an early-afternoon statement said it would stay that way at least through Wednesday. The archives reported no damage to original records at the rotunda and stack areas.''
Well it wasn't meant to be for me to search that El Paso film. Against
the odds I got the Monday off and will be in DC from Saturday evening
the 1st through the 4th. I had planned on hitting that film hard on the
2nd but with the rains I won't be able to. Another thing is that
Suzanne Harris wrote me and said that the film we've been talking about
from El Paso for the 1904-1924 period might be a positive negative and
not a negative negative and if that was the case it wouldn't be
available to researchers. She was going to get back to me on that but
then the floods came and I haven't heard from her.
Oh well. . .my Great Grandmother and Grandparents will have to wait a
little longer for me to find them (I've found their Baptism records but
not their border crossing records).
I hope the parade on the 4th doesn't get rained out
joseph
arturoramos wrote:
>Yes there has been torrential rain here in DC for over a week now and several government buildings have flooded and had to shut down. I am sure that the documents at the Archives are fine. It is just that with water flowing into buildings with marble floors it can be very dangerous so they would not want to have people walking around there...
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>``The National Archives' Washington building also remained closed Tuesday, and an early-afternoon statement said it would stay that way at least through Wednesday. The archives reported no damage to original records at the rotunda and stack areas.''
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Flooding in DC
Yes there has been torrential rain here in DC for over a week now and several government buildings have flooded and had to shut down. I am sure that the documents at the Archives are fine. It is just that with water flowing into buildings with marble floors it can be very dangerous so they would not want to have people walking around there...
``The National Archives' Washington building also remained closed Tuesday, and an early-afternoon statement said it would stay that way at least through Wednesday. The archives reported no damage to original records at the rotunda and stack areas.''
Flooding in DC
Well it wasn't meant to be for me to search that El Paso film. Against
the odds I got the Monday off and will be in DC from Saturday evening
the 1st through the 4th. I had planned on hitting that film hard on the
2nd but with the rains I won't be able to. Another thing is that
Suzanne Harris wrote me and said that the film we've been talking about
from El Paso for the 1904-1924 period might be a positive negative and
not a negative negative and if that was the case it wouldn't be
available to researchers. She was going to get back to me on that but
then the floods came and I haven't heard from her.
Oh well. . .my Great Grandmother and Grandparents will have to wait a
little longer for me to find them (I've found their Baptism records but
not their border crossing records).
I hope the parade on the 4th doesn't get rained out
joseph
arturoramos wrote:
>Yes there has been torrential rain here in DC for over a week now and several government buildings have flooded and had to shut down. I am sure that the documents at the Archives are fine. It is just that with water flowing into buildings with marble floors it can be very dangerous so they would not want to have people walking around there...
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>``The National Archives' Washington building also remained closed Tuesday, and an early-afternoon statement said it would stay that way at least through Wednesday. The archives reported no damage to original records at the rotunda and stack areas.''
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