Heard on local news: there were > it was --- (possible blend)

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

This is a slightly belated reply. The sentence cited below by Wilson Gray looks like a blend, deriving from:
"...just in case there were more problems on the boat than we thought"  plus
"just in case it was more serious on the boat than we thought."
 
G. Cohen

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Original message from Wilson Gray, Mon 10/6/2008 8:52 AM
Subject: Heard on local news: there were > it was

Local, white-male resident of Matha's Vineyard, MA, describing his
response to seeing from land a fire on a ferry:

"I alerted the authorities, just in case _it was_ more problems on the
boat than we thought."

-Wilson
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