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Jim's avatar

Thank you so much for going there and getting the story that we won’t see elsewhere. Your work and words are valuable.

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Mark Sundstrom's avatar

Thank you for this reporting. I stayed at the KOA campground in Swannanoa, a site right along the river, back in 2012, so I can try to imagine what it might look like now, not to say what the rest of the town looks like. Just awful.

There's no place that can prepare for 30 inches of rain in a short amount of time. I live about 1/4 mile from the local stream, in very flat central Ohio, and now it's just a trickle thanks to the time of year and the current drought. But if we got 30 inches of rain in just a few days, I would not be surprised to have water in my basement, if not worse. The last really big flood in central Ohio was 1913 (plenty of online references). Where I live now was unsettled in 1913, so I sometimes wonder just how far the Indian Run North Fork spread way back then.

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