A quarter century ago this morning, Disclave was flooded, putting a
permanent end to that beloved annual convention after 47 years.
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A quarter century ago this morning, Disclave was flooded, putting a
permanent end to that beloved annual convention after 47 years.
Keith F. Lynch wrote:
A quarter century ago this morning, Disclave was flooded, putting a
permanent end to that beloved annual convention after 47 years.
Interesting. The newspaper archive newspapers.com has scant mention
of WSFA, and nothing in 1997, when one would expect an item in
The Baltimore Sun. The Washington Post isn't in the archive.
On Wed, 25 May 2022 20:50:03 +0000, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
A quarter century ago this morning, Disclave was flooded, putting a
permanent end to that beloved annual convention after 47 years.
Interesting. The newspaper archive newspapers.com has scant mention
of WSFA, and nothing in 1997, when one would expect an item in
The Baltimore Sun. The Washington Post isn't in the archive.
Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2022 20:50:03 +0000, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
A quarter century ago this morning, Disclave was flooded, putting a
permanent end to that beloved annual convention after 47 years.
Interesting. The newspaper archive newspapers.com has scant mention of >>WSFA, and nothing in 1997, when one would expect an item in The
Baltimore Sun. The Washington Post isn't in the archive.
Although the Disclave Flood has become legendary and was a major
disaster from the standpoint of fans, I am not surprised that the rest
of the world did not pay much attention to it. (Other than a few
insurance companies of course.)
--scott
But what about the thunderstorm later that did some serious flooding
of the entire hotel?
She touched her doorknob while wet from the pool,
and fell over dead.
In article <t76j5i$b5m$1@reader1.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith
F.
Lynch) wrote:
She touched her doorknob while wet from the pool,
and fell over dead.
Wet from the rain, according to the two articles I found, although it
sounds as if the room was near the pool.
But what about the thunderstorm later that did some serious
flooding of the entire hotel? I looked in the newspaper archive
for references to severe storms, but found only that a cold
front had swept across the region. It had, though, caused a
postponement of the Indy 500 by a day.
Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
But what about the thunderstorm later that did some serious
flooding of the entire hotel?
I don't know about any thunderstorm. When the lobby ceiling fell
in, I had been awake all night and decided to just drive the three
hours home and be done with it.
I can't imagine there was much damage left to do at that point.
kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) wrote:
She touched her doorknob while wet from the pool, and fell over dead.
Wet from the rain, according to the two articles I found, although
it sounds as if the room was near the pool.
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
I don't know about any thunderstorm. When the lobby ceiling fell
in, I had been awake all night and decided to just drive the three
hours home and be done with it.
Weren't you concerned that you might fall asleep while driving?
The thunderstorm damaged the "bunker" or "discave," a converted
parking garage that was almost but not quite attached to the hotel.
Mainly because the bunker was slightly below ground level, hence had
concrete stairs, open to the sky, heading down. There was a drain at
the bottom of the stairs to keep water from flowing into the bunker,
but the hotel had cleverly carpeted over the drain. Water could soak
through the carpet and enter the drain, but the rain was coming down
much faster than it could soak through.
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
Was there really much there to damage? As I recall it was not very converted, it just had a carpet and HVAC.
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