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I went to see if they had any moose, which they did not, and got stuck in a downpour for 20 minutes, huddled under their leaky open tent.

The water rushed down the hill like a river, jumped the curb at the corner where it was low, got diverted at the wall of the building, and continued running all the way down the sidewalk. To make things worse, it clearly does that every time there's any real rain, because a huge chunk of the corner of the wall is gone.

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