Flooding at Gibson

[Chris P.]

That's bad. Yeah, we need to send some Dyke-building Dutchies. We can do that, we helped in New Orleans and even our future king is a water expert...

Dutch people at Gibson is no news of course. Kalamazoo was almost a Dutch town and in Gibson books you read a lot of Dutch names, like Jim Deurloo. The La La Lies photographer is called Marc Deurloo btw.

[Barklessdog]

Having worked in the "news" business, I can say with confidence that the reason that Nashville got so little attention and the dud bomb in NYC so much is that television news will throw every resource it has, needed or not, at a problem literally at its back door, but when it has to travel, then cost versus ad sales comes into play and the accountants make decisions on newsworthiness. Funny that 28 people dead and over a billion in damage is second fiddle to a dud fireworks display. I guess you can't scare people into buying what you're shilling any more after they've lost their homes.

I guess there are just too many disaster's to cover (oil spill)?

Just horrible and many of the families did not have flood insurance.

[uwe]

It's impossible to even get flood insurance in the regions in Germany that are flood-prone. What you save in purchasing the real estate you pay for as forever affiliated risk.

[Barklessdog]

We have an area near us that are built on a flood plain that as they come up for sale the state buys them and rips them down to return the flood area BACK to non developed land.

[uwe]

We have that issue in Germany too, stuff was built in places where it shouldn't have been built, there was pressure on municipalities to create cheap building land. The price was right - nobody asked questions and it all worked well for years until there was a season with heavy rainfall. Then people learned to their surprise that rivers can flood and occasionally even do.

[jumbodbassman]

the big drain on the company came when they bought Baldwin Piano out of Bankruptcy back in late 2001 ish. 

[Dave W]

It's probably a combination of things. Gibson bought several companies over the years (remember the Trace Elliott fiasco?) but didn't have a problem with bond ratings and paying suppliers until the general economy went bad a couple of years ago.

[Highlander]

I actually saw and touched a Continental V bass at the Frankfurt music ...

Err... when the CS gets round to building your NR, you could always ask if they might build you one...?

Is the plant really that close to the river...? the time to relocate is a bolted horse...

I live with the knowledge that I live on a flood plain, that my house had 2 feet of water in it in 1967, and that I live within a 1/4 mile of the thames and only 2 locks above sea-level... there but for the grace...

[Hornisse]

Damn.......

http://www.fox17.com/newsroom/top_stories/wztv_vid_3623.shtml

[Aussie Mark]

Dyke-building Dutchies.

Can dykes be built, or are they born that way?  If the Dutch can really build dykes, make sure they are hot, please.

[Denis]

Wow, that's awful. Anyone recognize any of those buildings?

[gweimer]

A friend of mine got called on his way to Wisconsin last week, and immediately turned around to go to Nashville to begin repairs on a huge trucking terminal for a company he contracts out to.  They had already found a place for him to stay, and he was being escorted into the terminal by the National Guard.  He said the company had built a makeshift dyke out of old truck tires, and sandbags (I think).  This company had a contingency plan, since millions of dollars in goods pass through there.
I also seem to recall a few bass board members (NolaBass?) from the old Pit and BABP that lost some gear in Katrina.  I think Nolabass posted, at the time, that he got what he could out of his place before he left, but wasn't going to post what he had to leave behind.
It's still stuff.  A lot of it has value, sentimental value, and maybe even some historical significance, but in the end, it's just manmade and inanimate.

[the mojo hobo]

Wow, that's awful. Anyone recognize any of those buildings?

I haven't been to Nashville in years but a little time with Google yeilds this:

[Dave W]

I'm not sure what's at your point A, Gibson is at 645 Massman Drive.

[uwe]

Damn.......

http://www.fox17.com/newsroom/top_stories/wztv_vid_3623.shtml

Quite on the contrary, no dam, to be exact.