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Thursday • March 6, 1997
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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.
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ramed goi any when they left earlier this week
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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.
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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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counties declared
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affected
by violent
weather
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