# Flood Pix! Who wants 'em? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896 "2004-09-18T20:35:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/1 "2004-09-18T20:35:54Z")
So my little town of Marietta is flooding today. It’s maybe 40 feet from the house and if it goes up another 2-3 feet we could have some basement problems. And Lady Chance went around taking snapshots this after. [Here you go…](http://www.wooleysark.com/marietta/) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/2 "2004-09-18T21:02:55Z")
Damn, that’s pretty bad. We’re having similiar sites around my area-and it’s even worse as you go down south towards Etna-which was hit the worst, they say. Good luck with your basement-my mother and I spent yesterday afternoon in our’s with brooms sweeping the water towards the drain to keep it from getting into the furnace. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/3 "2004-09-18T21:18:19Z")
Yeah that’s pretty bad. Anybody canoeing around town, I always see that kind of thing on the news. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/4 "2004-09-18T21:31:17Z")
Did Ivan do that to you or something else? Does it ever get like that in Marietta, OH during spring run off? If not then you can always tell the Smallest Chance that she was born “in the Year of the Great Flood”. How’re little Gwendolyn Rose and Big Sister Kate doing, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/5 "2004-09-18T21:34:48Z")
Is Ivan still a hurricane then? It hasn’t been downgraded? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/6 "2004-09-18T21:38:28Z")
Thanks for sharing the pics. For some reason, flooding pics really “twang” some kind of fear vibe with me. If I were of a less skeptical nature, I’d say maybe I drowned in a previous life or something. I saw one picture where you could see a road going down into the depths, and the water was clear enough to see submerged buildings below. Really weirded me out. Good luck dealing with it, Jonathan. Hopefully things will be back to normal soon. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/7 "2004-09-19T01:22:46Z")
Wowsers! Was there any significant rainfall to your North, or has the river already crested? Sending dry thoughts to you and family, **Jonathan**. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/8 "2004-09-19T01:48:15Z")
The NWS says we’ll crest tomorrow morning sometime at 7.5 feet above flood stage. Worse flood in 30 years the locals are telling me (though that could be selective memory). It’s now one house down from our house (we’re on a very slight slope). Another couple of feet could make all the difference. This is the result of western PA getting 5+ inches of rain yesterday and us getting 5 inches of rain yesterday. Both the Muskingum and the Ohio are over their banks and running through the streets. Sadly, Marietta exists at the confluence of the two rivers. See those two pix in the first row? That’s Muskingum Park, our riverside get together spot. That’s generally 20+ feet above the river on a bluff. The middle pic on row two is the gazebo that ‘Music on the River’ happens on. Heh. Row 5? Pix on left? That’s the walking bridge over the Muskingum. It’s typically high enough above the river that paddlewheeler can pass under it, smokestacks and all. Oofah. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/9 "2004-09-19T19:35:33Z")
Nate. I hope your lack of posting since last night doesn’t bode ill. How’s the “concussion” guy next door taking this? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/10 "2004-09-19T20:46:58Z")
We’re preparing more pix right now. The water is still rising (though slowly) but it’s about 10 feet or so from my property now. It’s like those scenes in _Titanic_ where you just see the trickle of water come into a hallway… We have about 2 inches of water in the basement and Tom (concussion guy) next door has a foot or more. Stacie, the teacher two doors down has 6+ FEET in her basement. Marietta, effectively, has no business district anymore. Ugh. More pix soon! ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flood-pix-who-wants-em/264896/11 "2004-09-20T00:43:56Z")
Thanks for the perspective, **Jonathan**. I kinda wondered about the sternwheeler and the bridge, and then thought, nah-it’s permanently moored. From what I’ve read on the boards and in the Sunday paper, I’m a lucky fellow. Gov. Rendell has told all non-essential state workers to stay home tomorrow as low-lying areas along the Susquehanna in Harrisburg are submerged, and downriver towards Marietta they are rather ugly, also.