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Page 5 Thursday • March 6, 1997 larch 6,l5j lizeOhio River swells to historical level LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Raging titshighest level in a generation, ie Ohio River swamped more ins up and downstream from ouisville on Wednesday in a slow- lotion disaster that may not let up intil next week. Towering flood walls protected fentucky’s largest city from the riv- Jr, which roiled 14 feet above flood It was the low-lying towns jlongthe river that were most vul- lierable to flood waters that weren’t ing away. we can do is wait for seme me to tell us ‘You folks can all go lome,”’ said Sue Colomb, 30, as she ted in a church shelter after flee- igher trailer in the town of West lint, 30 miles down river. But the water not only did not- jodown, it rose so high Wednesday Tut BAnJiiat it swamped roads in and out of he town of 1,200, stranding 60 leople who didn’t get out or re- , J° e Ely‘fused to leave. Colomb and her 63-year-old tger’s offilnother took only what they could ramed goi any when they left earlier this week Blue Sons -aTV, VCR, their Nintendo game mdsome meat from their freezer. They put their bed and couch up old disc. te a prim ape 30 peoji : said. “Iti if you siit h you.”’ paid off.H nanynatii of 3rd FI eatre. ie Somel n now de Theatre! es to chi illiams 0] old twice Dixie," Be| id next dool ill open nett said. 11 havethi )wds,” se diffei place.” Hieen Tin ally-loio ! Blue Som onkitchen chairs, tables and a bath room sink. But with their trailers standing in water day after day, they ivondered if they will even have a home worth coming back to. “It will never be the way it was,” Colomb said. Like a big bath tub with the water running, the Ohio River was con stantly being filled by runoff from a foot of rain over the weekend. An other quarter inch of rain Wednes day didn’t help. “It’s kind of sitting there,” said National Weather Service hydrologist Mike Callahan. “It’s going to be a very slow fall. ... It might drift up a little bit.” In fact, the Ohio is expected to crest Friday a half foot higher in Louisville, where it reached 37.8 feet on Wednesday. That’s worrisome news to evacuees, who won- dered when they would ever get back to their homes, and raised the fear they could be in for another round of flooding. The flood-prone town of Shep- herdsville, 20 miles south of Louisville, is just now cleaning up from floods that swamped 90 per cent of its downtown and forced 1,000 people to be taken out by boat. It is on the Salt River, which “All we're doing is hoping and wait ing, hoping the OF Ohio doesn't throw us some more backwater.'' Butch Sweat Flood victim feeds into the Ohio, and many townsfolk fear they could get an other dose of flooding when the Ohio crests. “The old-timers say once the riv er leaves it doesn’t come back—but we don’t know,” added lack Porter, 27, as he helped clean out a down town bank where floodwaters had been chest-high. “All we’re doing is hoping and waiting, hoping the Ol’ Ohio doesn’t throw us some more backwa ter,” said Butch Sweat, a farmer in nearby Lebanon Junction. Sweat’s two-story house, partly built with logs in 1865, had water up to the ceil ing of the second floor. In much of the town, the only way to get around was by boat. In Tell City, Ind., residents thought their town was safely pro tected by a 20-foot high concrete flood wall, until the river began gur gling from the ground behind the wall Tuesday night. Water was shooting through by Wednesday, and more than 120,000 sandbags were thrown into place by an army of National Guard soldiers, state prisoners and even schoolgirls. In the hard-hit town of Fal mouth, rooftop-high floodwaters finally receded to reveal homes off their foundations and sitting in the middle of streets. Everything was covered in coffee-colored muck — including the bodies of four more victims. That put the death toll at five in the town of2,700, where Vice President Al Gore was forced to cancel a tour after fog grounded his helicopter. Firefighters set up a temporary morgue and went about the grim task of searching house-by-house for more victims. “I am praying that’s all we’ve got,” said police officer Ed Ward. “But I don’t think it will be.” The floods already had forced thousands of people fi'om their homes along the Ohio and smaller streams in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. Floods and tornadoes were blamed for a total of 55 deaths. The Kentucky National Guard or dered 1,100 Guardsmen into 25 of the state’s hardest-hit counties. Humvees splashed through the streets of West Point, as guardsmen kept watch over the vacant homes and those stranded by the flood. Indianapolis Storms damage Heavy rainfall has caused rivers in some parts of the Tennessee and Ohio valleys to flood. Thousands have been evacuated and thousands of homes have been damaged. 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