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Wow. I've got some old Little Miami River high water shots from my grandmother's property in Loveland that I took in January 2005 I believe. The water level didn't make it to her front yard, but it did come up on a lower area of her property. I'll see if I can find them later tonight.

Fun pics, RV must be absent from the boards lately.

 

I wish I would have taken some pictures of the Great Miami flooding in 2005, I wasn't all that firmiliar with water levels at that time, and only after did I learn that it was a 50-year flood.

Ink, I'd actually tried loading the page this morning, but something was acting up and only one or two pictures showed...figured I'd check back in later.  But you're right, this is precisely the kind of thread I dig the hell out of!

 

TC Joe, that's some great stuff...I mean, not for the city, and weren't there two boys who died in the flooding?  It's tragic, but still, it's just overwhelming to see that much water where water's not supposed to be.  My grandparents live up that way (on Rt. 18, near DeRussy Road - closer to Wakeman than to Norwalk), and I was driving up there for a funeral maybe in July or so...there'd been some rain not long before, and I remember the fields along Rt. 13 - it looked like they'd planted water, and were bringing in a bumper crop.  I can't imagine driving up during this - the fields must have been half drowned.

 

Well, great work, and thanks so much for posting them!

 

Actually I think a volunteer firefighter drowned while trying to rescue two boys outside of Wellington.

 

And when I was driving to work that morning.....I was actually scared!  Some of the roads that I drive on don't cross a creek or ditch, and yet there were raging waters flowing over them and large lakes formed on places where one would think of as high ground!  It was amazing to see a river flowing through the drive-in theater (which is not near the river); see a semi halfway underwater near an underpass, watch picnic tables floating alongside the road, see farm fields that look like the Florida Everglades, etc. 

 

An awesome thing that I saw was a couple days after the flood when I took my dog for a walk down a road that was still closed.  Lamereaux Road (if you look on the map, it is just south of the red flag) runs along a cliff down to the river and the water that ran down that road carved 8-foot-deep trenches through the pavement and ground; the road was narrower than the average width of a sidewalk.  I was actually surprised they reopened the road!

 

RV..........I wish I could have taken some pics of Franklin Flats and Norwalk (which was hit the hardest) but by the time I could the floodwaters had receded majorly.  Thank goodness no lives were lost in town; primarily due to the quick response of the emergency services.  It'll be tough for the flood victims for years to come.......I wish 'em well!

 

All in all, while devastating, I thoroughly respect the awesome power of Mother Nature.

Those smaller rivers can just be devastating, because places just aren't protected against them as well.  Here's downtown Cincinnati on March 5th, 1997 (Ernest Coleman's photo for the Enquirer):

 

 

...but here's Falmouth, a small Kentucky town on the Licking River, two days earlier (Michael E. Keating photo for the Enquirer):

 

 

Cincinnati had damage, but folks died in Falmouth...

Those are amazing shots!

Here are the pictures I had mentioned before.

 

 

Grandmother's driveway

 

 

Again from the driveway, looking upstream

 

 

Edge of the bank in her front yard

 

 

Similar location as the above vantage point

 

 

This island is normally dry and more than a couple feet away from the water.

 

 

Lower elevation on my grandmother's property

 

 

Another lower spot, you can see the water's highest point in the leaves on the ground.

 

 

The street my house sits on

Jisel, those are great...any "before" shots?

 

Here's a thread I posted from that same January 2005 flood of the Ohio River, from downtown and a little downstream and upstream:

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=2016.0

 

Jisel, those are great...any "before" shots?

 

Here's a thread I posted from that same January 2005 flood of the Ohio River, from downtown and a little downstream and upstream:

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=2016.0

 

 

I can probably get some "current" shots, which would be the equivalent.

I hated the cleveland flood that came along a month later. I currently work for the city of mentor, and I had to deal with all the morons during and after the waters.

 

It took me a 30 min, for what is a 10 min drive to get to the city garage. Roads flooded everywhere. Treading water with my car, as water is almost splashing onto my hood, luckily my car never died out. Water was trapped in my headlights untill sometime in septermber.

 

Then I had to go around directing traffic to prevent morons flooding their cars and getting stranded. But still morons would just go around my city truck and in their SUV's and trucks tread on through. Then realising about halfway through they are fucked and have to go back around becaue of the volume of flooding. Fish were swimming in the streets everywhere and people would get flooded to their cars roof, and in some spots in the city flooded to their second story.

 

Alot of my neighbors basments got flooded with the exception of the people on either side of us.  Our yards are lower than everyone elses on the street, which I know is due to people illegaly re-grading their yards long before we moved into the neighborhood. A couple of years ago to correct an ongoing problem with flooding in our yards, the city came through with a drainage assistance progam for the whole street. It was a flat fee, that got effectively cheaper with each house that signed on. Everyone but the 2 neighbors beside us were cheap bastards and didnt opt in to get it done (they get minor flood spots in rain normaly). Everyone else but our 3 houses had flooded basements. Their dammages were greater than the fraction of the cost for the drainage assistance. I felt pretty vindicated :)

 

Anyways back to the story. After the flooding had come and gone, literaly for 1 week straigt of 10 hour days of just hauling crap off peoples tree lawns. Then the following week of 8 hour days of hauling crap off peoples tree lawns. Also monitoring side streets, woods, and city property for illegal dumping, which there was alot of despite the fact if they left it out the city would have gotten it. All of it stank like urine soaked stagnat water. Upside was we finds we keeps :). People threw out all sorts of stuff that could be kept really. Friend of mine got 15 metal beer signs for bars. Some people got stacks of vynl records and dvds. I got a bunch of sets of not so good golf clubs (that I later threw out because I really dont like golf) and a 55 gallon fish tank.