Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor Flooded

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Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor Flooded

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Never been but have always heard great things. Hope they didn't lose too much.

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Firefighters and city crews worked for about an hour and a half to find a brass plate on the sidewalk, which would lead to a valve that could shut off the water. Eventually, water department employees opened up a sewer in the middle of South University Avenue and managed to find a way to a valve in that location to shut the water off.
WTF? Why doesn't city works know where the damn valve is? :|
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Never been, but very sad. I like the comment by Evan Williams at the end:
“I play a lot of Donkey Kong, it’s the best Donkey Kong in town.”
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It's a really cool arcade. One of the last greats around here, aside from Marvin's.

This is bad news. :?
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I'll go over and see what's up in the next few days, it's only a couple of blocks from where I live. This isn't the first business to get flooded. A complex not even a block down the street flooded back in December, closing down a bar, Bubble Island, and the Princeton Review center.
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That's terrible to see with so few of these kinds of places still existing in the U.S.
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