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Lauderdale Mansion Deemed Safe from Flooding
I appreciate all the letters of concern, but wanted to reassure my half-dozen readers that the Lauderdale Mansion, Lauderdale Library, and Lauderdale Sn0-Cone Parlor are — for now — safe from the rising flood waters.
As you can see from this exclusive photo taken from the Memphis Flyer's "Fly-Witness News" helicopter, the sprawling Mansion — perched high atop Mt. Moriah — is well out of reach of the murky waters that have swallowed the neighborhoods surrounding it.
I feel somewhat (but not entirely) bad for my neighbors, who clamored at the gates all night long, hoping to find refuge inside my estate, but what was I supposed to do? They are not Lauderdales, and never will be.
And as for the poor little children at the orphanage just down the street, the tedious task of filling sandbags from dawn to dark will harden them for the struggles they will surely face later in life, so every cloud does have a silver lining.
Ask Vance is the blog of Vance Lauderdale, the award-winning columnist of Memphis magazine and MBQ: Inside Memphis Business. Vance is the author of two books: Ask Vance: The Best Questions and Answers from Memphis Magazine's History and Trivia Expert (2003), as well as Ask Vance: More Questions and Answers from Memphis Magazine's History Expert (2011). He is also the recipient of quite a few nice awards, the creator of several eye-catching wall calendars, and the only person we know with a vintage shock-treatment machine in his den. 
Hard times indeed but one has to bear up when things get grizzly
what mansion/castle is this really a picture of?
That's either Mont St. Michel in France or Mt. St. Michael in England. Probably the former.
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