2nd time in 4 months
I haven't posted for awhile because first we were away for New Years, then slammed with work upon returning. Meant to post and tell about our great weekend with friends in a cabin in Pa, followed by our car breaking down, being towed by a man with incredible butt crack and brown teeth, night in a hotel, stress from the whole event coupled with the enormous expense, but that news is now old news. Here's the new news...
The Ohio River is flooding again for the second time in four months. It's been raining pretty heavily while we were gone, and yesterday the river started to rise. 10 coal barges broke loose up river. It was crazy. 6 jammed against the dam, but 4 got through the locks and floated down the river. One slammed into the bridge which Interstate 70 goes over, the next missed it and the fourth just grazed the bridge. Highways were shut down everywhere. The horrible irony is that the rain has now stopped, today the river will crest 7 feet above flood stage and it's supposed to be sunny. The only good thing, if there is a good thing about floods, is that the September flood was a flash flood that meant many people were affected by creeks flooding. This time it's just the river and the major creek. Less people will be affected but still. So many people had only JUST started to get ahead of the clean-up and re-building from September. You feel so bad for them. Many people had to have their homes gutted. Two local business had just reopened this Monday after massive rebuilding. Four days later they are threatened to flood.
You wonder why they - they being the government I guess - continue to allow people to be helped with emergency funds to rebuild in the flood zones. Another sad thought, because so many in our area had just been hit by a natural disaster I think a lot of people had been doing relief drives, donating, etc for the tsunami victims relief. Now that will stop while we all focus on our area again. Luckily no lives have been lost. Sometimes living in this area is so miserable.
The Ohio River is flooding again for the second time in four months. It's been raining pretty heavily while we were gone, and yesterday the river started to rise. 10 coal barges broke loose up river. It was crazy. 6 jammed against the dam, but 4 got through the locks and floated down the river. One slammed into the bridge which Interstate 70 goes over, the next missed it and the fourth just grazed the bridge. Highways were shut down everywhere. The horrible irony is that the rain has now stopped, today the river will crest 7 feet above flood stage and it's supposed to be sunny. The only good thing, if there is a good thing about floods, is that the September flood was a flash flood that meant many people were affected by creeks flooding. This time it's just the river and the major creek. Less people will be affected but still. So many people had only JUST started to get ahead of the clean-up and re-building from September. You feel so bad for them. Many people had to have their homes gutted. Two local business had just reopened this Monday after massive rebuilding. Four days later they are threatened to flood.
You wonder why they - they being the government I guess - continue to allow people to be helped with emergency funds to rebuild in the flood zones. Another sad thought, because so many in our area had just been hit by a natural disaster I think a lot of people had been doing relief drives, donating, etc for the tsunami victims relief. Now that will stop while we all focus on our area again. Luckily no lives have been lost. Sometimes living in this area is so miserable.
posted by Ren at 5:18 AM
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