73-year-old Timothy Evans loves Pontiac Fieros so much that he amassed his own collection and opened a museum to showcase and sell the vehicles.
So when floodwaters from the Tittabawassee River began creeping toward his business earlier this week, Evans scrambled to move his cars to dry ground, he didn't succeed.
The Edenville and Sanford dams breached Tuesday, inundating parts of the Midland County village and flooding his cars. Of Evans’ 20 Fieros, only one, the vehicle he drove home Tuesday, was untouched.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/05/21/pontiac-fiero-collection-destroyed-midland-edenville-dam-flooding/5234159002/
That's a shame. Whether or not you like Fieros it sad to see someone's hard work and dedication ruined like this. Hopefully he can rebuild most of them.
ReplyDeleteI guess the moral of the story is to not hold to tightly to things. Besides not being able to "take it with you" when you die, it can all be destroyed in a flash, by fire or by flood.
I was thinking it was get some damn friends and have them help you move the cars to a hill. It's that damn simple. OR put them on trailers, etc etc
DeleteSo it looks like the AG of Michigan is in hot water over this. The owners of this dam were trying to get approval to lower the dam by 8 feet because they worried about whether or not it could hold when a lot of rain came. This was in 2018 I think. Anyway, Dana Nessell, the attorney general, sued them to prevent them from lowering the water level because she was worried about fresh water mussels. Now here we are. 10,000 or so people out of their homes, total destruction of the surrounding area and NO MUSSELS.
ReplyDeleteDamn, thanks for the inside scoop! I never heard of this dam or the issue until now. Michigan (where I was born and raised) hasn't done anything right regarding water for a long time. Of course, it's ironically surrounded by water on 6 sides. 3 sides per peninsula. That lead in the Flint water, and now this
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