Special Forces Association suffers from Matthew’s floodwaters
AZtoVA sends a link from the Fayetteville Observer which reports that the Special Forces Association Chapter 1-18 suffered mightily from Hurricane Matthew’s rain;
The 52-year-old association’s compound off Doc Bennett Road – which includes picnic areas, a memorial garden and office space – was covered in nearly five feet of water at the flooding’s peak.
Nearby Rockfish Creek, located down a steep embankment from the roughly 20-acre compound, rose 40 feet to flood all but a small chapel and rows of memorial stones, Newman said.
“It was like a big lake,” he said. “It just surged right in here and flowed back out again.”
Weeks later, the national organization, which counts roughly 10,000 current and former Green Berets among its members, is still picking up the pieces.
Apparently, a lot of the paper records and artifacts were severely damaged before members could get to the stuff. They estimate that there was about $250,000 worth of damage done by floodwaters.
Category: Who knows
1975 all over again but with Water not Fire.
Posers jumping on this paperwork damaged by a flood in my Mother’s house’s basement in 3…..2…..1..
Typo, John – should be $250K, not $25K.
“It’s about $250,000 in damages,” Newman said. “It’s hard to say what will happen next.”
The association doesn’t have deep reserves, he said. It publishes its magazine at a loss as a service to its members. And it provides more than $30,000 a year in scholarships. After that, there’s not enough left to rebuild and replace what was lost.
“We need some help here,” Newman said.
This is what insurance is for…
That sucks, I hope they can recover.
Perhaps Colt Bulot can swing by and assist with the cleanup and drop his Special Forces application off at the same time.
They carried no insurance?
Hopefully they have insurance to help them repair their facilities, but what is of greater concern is their reported loss/damage of irreplaceable records and artifacts.
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