<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Thanks for the updated information; the impression I got from the news story I'd read was that many of the tenants were being sheltered at the school and it would be a long while before anyone could come back. Good to hear they're settling back in <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>and being taken care of; when storms like that hit, you never know, any one of us could be next, and need help. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Thanks again!</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Alan K. Thompson <akthompson@riverdaleparkmd.gov><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> TownTalk <TownTalk@riverdale-park.org> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:43 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [RP TownTalk] Riverdale Towers - most people back in their apartments<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<DIV>Friends and neighbors,</DIV>
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<DIV>As I think most of you heard, Riverdale Towers was evacuated to an emergency shelter earlier today after issues were found in the building damaged by the derecho. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I just got back from visiting, with Ward 5 Councilman Raymond Rivas, both the shelter at Bladensburg High School and Riverdale Towers itself.
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<DIV>The good news is that almost all of the Riverdale Towers residents are back in their apartments. There were maybe four or five families at Bladensburg (we spoke with two of them - the others were out of the building but expected back). The ones we spoke to seemed in good spirits overall if frustrated by their situation (and by the speed of repairs, and the general state of their building).</DIV>
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<DIV>We spoke with a family in the apartment building, and they were glad they'd been able to get back in, but were unhappy that the AC was still out (it had apparently been out for a few weeks even before the storm). I saw photos on a cell phone of one of the damaged apartments, which had been stripped down to studs so it could be dried out.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm glad that most people are back in their apartments or resettled nearby, and hope that the repairs on the remaining uninhabitable apartments go quickly. I'm also glad to live in a community where residents not directly affected by the evacuation were concerned enough to contact me and ask how they could help those in need.</DIV>
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<DIV>Alan Thompson</DIV>
<DIV>Ward 2 Town Council representative and Acting Mayor</DIV>
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