So for the second time in 5 months and the third time this year we’ll be having major flooding in Marietta over the next few days.
The National Weather Service is predicting a crest on Saturday of between 41 and 43 feet. Flood stage is 34 feet where the Muskingum River flows into the Ohio River.
Last time it rose in less than 20 hours. This time we’re having more than a days notice. Businesses downtown are emptying out or moving things to the upper floors to wait it out. I hope they learned their lesson last time and picked up some flood insurance.
My littlest is now 5 months old. Any of you math whizzes want to calculate the odds of a five month old experiencing two 40-year flood events already?
Wish us luck, folks. Last time we were the last house to get wet. We had about 6 inches of water in the basement. That was just under 45 feet. I’m hoping that at 43 feet we’ll dodge the bullet.
Good luck. I always wondered how you fared during that last flood…lost track of the thread when the water was getting close. Glad you only got a few inches…hope you didn’t have much damage. We have a teeny tiny river…well, more a stream in our basement right now from the melting last week and the rain today, but luckily we’ve only had serious water once in the last 47 years. But then I’m two miles from the lake and nowhere near anything bigger than Cahoon Creek. But the backyard is total soup under the snow.
Good Luck JC. I’m under 5 inches of the worse sleety, sludge you can imagine as we speak. And in 3 hours, it will be 5 inches of Icey, rock solid sludge you have ever seen. My thoughts go out to you in Ohio.
Well, this does help to explain the affordability of housing in the area. And never mind the locusts and frogs, they seldom stay for more than a few months at a time.
Things stopped about 30-40 feet from our place this time. Not even any water in the basement this time. We dodged the bullet…though some of our neighbors didn’t.
And Kythereia? You annoy me. I know the quote. It’s possible I’ve known it longer than you have. But I also know when to change a quote to get the proper effect. This is called ‘a sense of humor’.
In east central Indiana power is going to be down for 5-6 days. It went out wednesday afternoon and they still don’t have it on saturday. Normally 83 electrical workers run the whole delaware county/randolph county area but they have got 1500 working to repair it now. There were tons of down power lines and since you need electricity to run water pumps virtually everyone with a basement had their basement flooded.
My thoughts go out to you in Ohio. 