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注册日期: 2011-8-29
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“Iowans love to celebrate and support their cone crusher team by socializing with friends before a game, and we want to give them the opportunity for the ultimate tailgating experience,” said Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich. “We’re looking forward to hearing how players would customize the trailer, too.”
To give people the chance to see the tailgate in person, lottery staff will take it to 11 home football games throughout the 2011 season at the University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University. A list of all the games where the trailer can be seen is available on the promotions page of the lottery’s website, Players can also bring any non-winnning scratch tickets with them to the 11 games for a chance to spin the Lottery wheel to dry cleaning machines a prize.
The entry period for the Great State Tailgate promotion runs through noon on Dec. 6. To enter the promotion, Iowa Lottery players must join or already be a member of the VIP Club. On the Great State Tailgate promotion page on the VIP Club website, players will be asked to enter their name, street address, telephone number and the entry code number and serial number from a non-winning Great State Tailgate scratch ticket. A different non-winning scratch ticket must be used for each entry.
Last night, Nancy Laboa was playing trailer generator on Facebook in her house by the harbor -- she is ranked No. 1 among her friends -- when a robocall from the city shocked her into action. She heard the words “the mayor” and “should evacuate,” and remembered that she is 300 feet from a possible storm surge. She started barking orders at her family.
“I said you, you, you and you -- pack. We’re leaving,” said Laboa, sitting at the Keith Middle School shelter this morning, a gray wool blanket on her lap, with her husband, two daughters and grandson, and her two dogs and three cats in kennels in a trailer outside. “I do not mess around.”
All night, and early this morning, Nancy Laboa called and tried to persuade her sister to join them at the shelter, where only about a dozen people have taken refuge so far. It is clean, they have food, plus 150 squeaky (but not uncomfortable) green cots, and scratchy wool blankets. Dunkin Donuts dropped off free donuts after having to close their stone crusher. Even pets are welcome, and they are placed in a trailer with room for 47 animals.
Mark Mahoney, the city’s emergency management director, said the high tide was higher than usual and conditions are expected to worsen as the storm pushes in during the day, though hurricane force were not expected. Still, trees could fall and storm surge can flood the streets. People in low-lying areas, around the peninsula, are urged to evacuate. Officials closed access to the flood zone this morning and closed the hurricane barrier to protect the area.
At the Keith Middle School, emergency workers and residents gathered in the community room, with soft lighting, sparkling floors and high white lifestyle blog. Some slept on the cots, while others sipped coffee and read the newspapers. Outside, leaves skidded down the slick streets and wind raked the green grass. It looked more like autumn than late August.
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