In Harm's Way, It's Linger or Leave -- To Flee Rising Water
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › May 02, 2011
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Under sunny skies and pine trees that swayed in the warm breeze, Danny Irby plopped a turkey on the smoker and settled in for a grill- out - undeterred by floodwaters inching up to his mobile home and nearby crews shutting off utilities.
"Until they tell me I've got to go, or until water gets in my house, I'm staying," Irby, 54, said Thursday evening as he tended the grill and visited with friends.See the full content of this document
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In Harm's Way, It's Linger or Leave -- To Flee Rising Water
But elsewhere in the Country View Mobile Home Park in Frayser, Irby's neighbors were about to become some of the first Memphis evacuees of the flood of 2011.
Shelby County authorities Thursday op...See the full content of this document
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