gotomsdos Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 2011 floods partially damaged Gibson Nashville. Did it affect Gibson Montana as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 2011 floods partially damaged Gibson Nashville. Did it affect Gibson Montana as well? gotomsdos, Nashville and Bozeman are in totally different parts of the USA. They are about as far apart as Beijing and Hong Kong. Nashville is on the Cumberland River, at an altitude of about 120m above sea level. The Cumberland is a fairly major river that floods periodically. Bozeman is in a valley almost 1500 metres above sea level, and has a generally dry climate. The floods in 2011 primarily impacted on the major river systems in the middle of the US, including the Cumberland. Bozeman's high altitude, lack of proximity to a major river, and dry climate means no floods, but cold, snowy winters, and fairly steady levels of moderate humidity. In other words, it's an ideal place to build acoustic guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotomsdos Posted February 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 gotomsdos, Nashville and Bozeman are in totally different parts of the USA. They are about as far apart as Beijing and Hong Kong. Nashville is on the Cumberland River, at an altitude of about 120m above sea level. The Cumberland is a fairly major river that floods periodically. Bozeman is in a valley almost 1500 metres above sea level, and has a generally dry climate. The floods in 2011 primarily impacted on the major river systems in the middle of the US, including the Cumberland. Bozeman's high altitude, lack of proximity to a major river, and dry climate means no floods, but cold, snowy winters, and fairly steady levels of moderate humidity. In other words, it's an ideal place to build acoustic guitars. Thank you j45nick ! I know they are far away from each other, but news says that the people living from Montana to Missouri are forced to move, so I wonder.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimt Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 Thank you j45nick ! I know they are far away from each other, but news says that the people living from Montana to Missouri are forced to move, so I wonder.. If anything, it would be Eastern Montana into North Dakota and Minnisota.... .. Below Saskatchawan and Manitoba,, Those areas are Flood plains.. they do unfortunately see the wrath of Rising Rivers.. Look at a map. its a very large area.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfox14 Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 I wonder if Bozeman was effected by all the tornados in Alabama? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimt Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 I wonder if Bozeman was effected by all the tornados in Alabama? I believe they had Rain.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfox14 Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 WOW! I hope it didn't ruin any guitars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-poland Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 WOW! I hope it didn't ruin any guitars what part of the world are ya from??? :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-1854Me Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 It affected the Bozeman guitar factory in that they accommodated several displaced staff from Nashville for a number of weeks/months after the flooding in Nashville. I was in Bozeman for a part of the period after the floods and there were three or four workers from Nashville who were assisting in Bozeman, staying at the hotel I was at. I had a chance to meet these guys and gals over breakfast, say, and they were really grateful that Gibson had put them up in Bozeman for work, and that they had a (rare) chance to work with people that they would ordinarily never get to meet, let alone work side by side with. A nice deal for them! Fred PS the floods were in 2010.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 what part of the world are ya from??? :unsure: Paul Fox (Fox Guitars) lives in Lowell, Massachusetts, NW of Boston near the New Hampshire line. Heart of New England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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