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04/01/09 06:53 PM #482     Shane Hamilton Thank-you ladies..I WILL continue to pray and as he grows up, I'm hoping to be there every single waking moment, "0}

04/01/09 09:14 PM #483     Dave Dirren I can tell you after raising 2 boys and 1 girl that (in my case) girls were much easier. Maybe I was lucky, but boys tend to PUSH the limits much more then my daughter ever did. Maybe they were tooooo much like me? Also, my boys spent way more time in hospital ER rooms then my daughter. I'm just glad I survived with all my hair. My youngest now will be 20 in July, so the "teen" years are almost over. Thank God!

04/01/09 09:32 PM #484     Andy McClure Only having daughters... and sisters... I think most girls are crazy... every 28 days!!! The flooding only came through our yard... we didn't tube, but we did play. I know people on the corner of 86th and Bonnie Rose had about 3 feet in their houses.

04/01/09 10:12 PM #485     Dave Dirren I remember that flood as well. They came around evacuating us but we stayed and put sand bags at the front door. My dad made us kids (boys) carry all the furnature up to the second floor of our house. We lived on 85th between Lincoln & Rose Lane. Must have been high enough that water never got inside. Our street looked like a river.

04/01/09 10:42 PM #486     Lisa Cerri I remember that flood too... Ronn Hart lived about 6 houses closer to 86th than we did (on Orange Blossom) -- My mom still tells the story of how Ronn's dad and his friend came by and opened our side gate, relieving the pressure and saving our house from a few inches of water that night. Pretty wild watching people canoe down your street at 2 o'clock in the morning!

04/01/09 10:49 PM #487     Lisa Stephens Don't you all just love it (probably just the moms) when something goes wrong, it's ALWAYS your fault?!

04/01/09 10:49 PM #488     Cayce Evans (Newton) Kim, I remember the flood of 1970 because we had to move to Az from New York 6 months before we had planned. My parents had purchased our home on Mapleview and we were going to move at the end of the school year - June 1971. The flood filled our bottom floor (which was half-way below ground level) with 3 feet of water and ruined the groovy paneling. So we ended up moving in October. I was in the Mohave 4th grade class that got bused Ingleside Elem. in Phoenix.

04/01/09 10:52 PM #489     Cayce Evans (Newton) Pegi, I remember the 1980 flood too because I worked at the new Price Club on Broadway in Tempe. I couldn't get across for work so I had to stay at my brother, David's. He was living with Bill McCalmont and I think Steve West. That was SO COOL!!! I thought i was cool living with the guys for a week.

04/01/09 10:54 PM #490     Cayce Evans (Newton) OHHH ANDY!! Don't even go there buddy.

04/01/09 10:55 PM #491     Cayce Evans (Newton) Oops - they purchased our home on Montebello - we moved from Mapleview.

04/02/09 12:09 AM #492     Kim Calhoun (Carson) I remember the 80 flood as well. I was coming home for the weekend from UofA, and it took us over 2 hours just to get through Tempe. I think the Mill Ave. bridge was closed and messed up traffic on Rural/Scottsdale.

04/02/09 12:49 AM #493     Gregory Puckett It sure was good to see the class comittee last nite and Marc B and Mona at bike week tonite be safe.

04/02/09 01:50 AM #494     Lisa Stephens Hmmm...maybe it IS always my fault...:/

04/02/09 02:02 AM #495     Cayce Evans (Newton) Mimi, How the heck do you remember the teacher's name? I think Grant Koepke and Kevin Bracken were in our class because they would chase me home after school. Some girl name Jackie would pee her pants on the bus almost every day. I don't have a class picture! Maybe they took it before i moved there.

04/02/09 05:52 AM #496     Andy McClure Ingelside... Could they have found a school closer?? We went there because Mr. Goldby's brother was the principal. We had to ride the short bus!! This was during the teachers strike... and I remember several kids not having to go to school for a few days, as their parents feared that the bus drivers would go on strike and leave us stranded at the other school.

04/02/09 09:17 AM #497     Robert Lacivita Don't let your kids throw "guilt trips" on you whether your divorced or not.

04/02/09 09:48 AM #498     Marc Beitman (Beitman) THE BEST FLOOD SECTION WAS WHEN THE CANNAL BROKE AT SCOTTSDALE AND CAMELBACK AND FLOODED FROM SCOTTSDALE RD AND CAMEL BACK NORTH TO VISTA EVERY THING WAS FLOODED THE SAFFARI THE EGZECUTIVE HOUSE THE WHOLE NEIBORHOOD EAST WOW WE GOT OUT CANOES AND PUSHED STALLED CARS FLOATED ON RAFTS IN THE HOTELS

04/02/09 10:58 AM #499     Doug Holland Hey Mimi, that canal that ran on the west side of Granite Reef was an awesome place until they covered it with houses. We fished, swam and climbed all over it. Anyone remember Danny Nicely's grandfathers set-up at the corner of Granit Reef and McDonald. . .big pecan trees, open land for BB gun fights. . .how about Ole McDonald's farm at the canal and McDonald? I remember playing at SCC while they were building it. Yeah, the ole place ain't what it use to be!!!

04/02/09 11:37 AM #500     Kim Calhoun (Carson) You guys just keep dredging up more memories of the good ole days. I try to tell people that there used to be farms in Scottsdale, and they just laugh. I remember McCormick ranch being developed and sneaking through the barricades before Hayden was completed and driving too fast and stirring up lots of dirt and having a great time!. I also remember racing down Hayden when there was no one on the road at 100 miles an hour. What idiots! I would kill my kids if they did the same, but there's a heck of a lot more people on the road now. Someone mentioned frogs with the flooding, I remember every summer when the monsoons would hit that it seemed like every time the rain stopped the frogs suddenly appeared. Our neighbors pool would always be full of dead frogs that couldn't find their way out.

04/02/09 11:41 AM #501     Kim Calhoun (Carson) Lisa, I'm sure it's not all your fault, but our kids would like to make it easier on themselves by having someone else to blame for every bad thing in their lives, and you are the easiest target. With my kids if it isn't my fault, it indirectly is because of how I raised them, or as they say "we learned it from you!" Don't be too hard on yourself. I know you love your kids very much, and I'm sure you are a terrific mother.

04/02/09 11:50 AM #502     Margaret (Pegi) Knight (Nelson) new old thougth: Farrells?

04/02/09 12:24 PM #503     Nancy Bull Ferrells...Anyone up for a Pig Trough or maybe a Zoo?

04/02/09 12:58 PM #504     Lance Cope The flood- our house was one ofthe ones flooded. Andy-I think your mom brought over a lunch for us while were trying to haul the new carpets up onto the roof. Jeff Odegard and I did the inner tubing on 86th with I think Danny Cook. I still remember the water coming in through the living room window. I had put our dogs in the bathtub. My parents were at a friends party and we where with a sitter. Any of the guys remember "frogtown". The wash area after a flood down past where the boys club is now? Massive fun mud fights. My dad hosed several of us off in the front yard after one.

04/02/09 01:10 PM #505     Lisa Cerri No doubt, in some little trinket box, hidden away in storage, I have several brightly colored translucent plastic zoo animals -- like a screaming pink monkey with a long enough tail too hang off the edge of the Zoo bowl! ha --that used to be the most excitement and fun we could imagine-- as the sirens wailed and the bells rung out. and racing home after school to watch wallace and ladmo he he ha ha he he haha ooooooooooooohhh...

04/02/09 01:23 PM #506     Margaret (Pegi) Knight (Nelson) I was lucky, as the youngest sibling, I usually got at least my brothers' critters. Oh, that was a fun place. I remember taking my sister there when she was expecting, just to have her get a big old dill pickle with her icecream. I will have to bring this up at my sibling reunion this weekend.

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