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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Custer Battlefield Museum- Never touched by floodwaters

Hi! Sami writing here- I am from Ironton, Ohio, and I’ve been here for almost a month now. It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long at all! I was the first intern to arrive, flying into Billings on May 17th… right before all of the nasty weather hit. Since it was so late out when I touched ground, I didn’t really get to see any sunshine until the next day- and I was blown away at how green everything was. Chris kept pointing out that it’s never usually this green here, but I think it’s lovely even if it isn’t the way things usually look.

Sadly, the sunshine didn’t stay around for too long after I got here. Mind you- I landed in rain, and pretty much didn’t see a break from it until around a week and a half ago. And it flooded. Oh boy did it flood. Since I live on the Ohio River, I never think that much of rain- but when I woke up maybe four days after first getting here, we were in the middle of an emergency flooding situation. Ack! I felt like I might’ve brought the rain with me all the way from Ohio…

Apparently we’d gathered over ten inches of rain in ten days- which is pretty impressive no matter where you are. Water was up over the interstate for days, and they closed a huge majority of the roads around us. They even evacuated Crow Agency, which isn’t that far from us at all. Of course, Garryowen was fine- Sitting Bull picked a very good spot for his camp, during the whole flooding scare, we were not only sitting here safe and dry, but we never even closed down the museum! Given the situation of course, I would’ve thought that getting to a museum would be the last thing on people’s minds, but sure enough, we still had customers! Most of them were international- another thing that has positively boggled my mind since getting here- but they were so excited to see the battlefield they forged through high water and past roadblocks to get here!

It was definitely something else.

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