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en We looked out the ventilation of the attic, and we saw the water about a foot from the attic. Man, the women asked, what was going on? So, we had to lie to them and tell them something different. You know what I'm saying? We didn't want to get them upset. It was a horrible sight, I'll tell you that.

en Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . . In the summers we would go to North Dakota to visit her, and I would get in that attic and read everything in sight. That's when the passion started. I was maybe eight or nine.

en One man down the road said he tried desperately to get his wife into the attic. The man got in the attic, but his wife fell back down and drowned right there in front of him.

en When I go back, life won't be like it was. If we're lucky, our roofs are still on and our houses didn't catch on fire. If we're not, water came up to our attic and we lost everything.

en My older brother, Scott, was swimming around the house trying to get the kids. My younger brother, Jeff, has three little kids. They were trying to get them up in the attic. My grandmother, who is almost 90, they were trying to get her up in the attic or on top of a washing machine or a counter or whatever. Fortunately, they all survived. But now, as bad as that was, the worst is yet to come.

en We're getting reports and calls that [are] breaking my heart from people saying, 'I've been in my attic. I can't take it anymore. The water is up to my neck. I don't think I can hold out.' And that's happening as we speak.

en As the house just filled up with water, it forced me into the attic, and then I ended up kicking out the wall and climbing up to a tree because the houses around me were just disappearing.

en The boy woke me up and said, 'Daddy, the water is coming through the door.' So, the water started rising from the door. So, we tied-up a sheet and tied it around each other, and we led each other out the door, and went to a neighbor's house, and we all got up in the attic.

en When I first looked at it I though 'Oh my gosh. The Commodore 64 is the computer that attracts demo programming. ' It's not what I pictured them buying. But the main floor had a good floor plan, and the central location of the stairs to the attic made it workable.

en When there's fire in the attic space, the only way you can get control of that fire is to remove the ceilings inside the building, so you can get in that area to put water on the fire.

en Next thing they know, water is on top of them, ... My older brother, Scott, and our friend, Clark, were swimming in the house trying to get the kids. My brother, Jeff, has three kids. He was trying to get them up in the attic.

en Climbing up in the attic.
  Mary McCarthy

en A Light in the Attic,
  Shel Silverstein

en Up until the attic took off, we had everything controlled. At least we thought we did,

en The colder your attic is, the better your house is for it.


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