# flooding in Ohio **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 7, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooding-in-ohio/263440 "2004-09-07T03:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooding-in-ohio/263440/1 "2004-09-07T03:28:06Z")
Our local weatherguy says by Thursday we (in Ohio) could have 3-6 inches of rain. Is this a real danger? Theres a river that floods, but in my suburb, its not near us. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooding-in-ohio/263440/2 "2004-09-07T03:37:25Z")
That wasn’t FoxNews, was it? 😃 Hey, sweetie. You’re about 20 miles from me. This is NOrthern Ohio. Don’t trust the weather people. When the water is up to your knees, then you start to worry. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooding-in-ohio/263440/3 "2004-09-07T03:39:39Z")
ha! No, it wasn’t fox8, with the Oldest Weatherman Alive. It was channel 5. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooding-in-ohio/263440/4 "2004-09-07T03:40:45Z")
The Miami River used to flood very bad. In [**The Great Flood of 1913**]([http://www.miamiconservancy.org/Flood\_Protection\_&\_Water\_Management/](http://www.miamiconservancy.org/Flood_Protection_&_Water_Management/) Great\_Flood\_of\_1913/default.htm) my grandfather was trapped on the second story of a building for three days. The only thing he had to eat was a head of cheese that floated by. I also knew an old gentleman that told me he had a plant that made cigar boxes (the old wooden ones) and the flood put him out of business. The Conservatory that was built to prevent future floods was built on the land my family settled in the early 1800’s. Also there are many communites along the Ohio River that get flooded anytime that river rises very far. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooding-in-ohio/263440/5 "2004-09-07T03:44:38Z")
Oh **Vanilla** don’t worry the river you are thinking of doesn’t flood, it just **catches on fire!** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flooding-in-ohio/263440/6 "2004-09-07T04:17:21Z")
6 inches of rain, even at more than an inch per hour, is not going to bring the Chagrin River anywhere near you (unless you have recently moved down to the flood plains near the CEI plant in Eastlake or over onto River Rd. in Willoughby or Willoughby Hills). The biggest problem will be power outages from lightning strikes or blown down trees (and you’ve certainly lived through those before). I’m pretty sure that the August 13, 1994 storm dropped close to a foot of rain on the area, washing out several roads and bridges. If you survived that storm, you should make it through this one. (And my impression is that the six inches will be _cumulative_ over three days–we’ve already had that much earlier this spring.) ( **kniz** , **vanilla** is closer to the Chagrin River than to the Cuyahoga–no fires for her.)