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Flooding..Wichita and surrounding... (Original Post) Maxheader May 2019 OP
I've read that just a few inches of moving floodwaters can sweep a car away. nt tblue37 May 2019 #1
It got real close here. MuseRider May 2019 #2
Thank goodness you Maxheader May 2019 #3
Nothing like that happened in 2007, MuseRider May 2019 #4

MuseRider

(34,058 posts)
2. It got real close here.
Thu May 9, 2019, 09:47 AM
May 2019

the river that runs close to my farm flooded the entire community in 2007 and it took a very long time to get it back. It is a small community and rural and the river made the entire area look like a giant lake. I live on the high point (I chose this place partly for that reason, I did not want to mess with FEMA). Rescue operations started in my driveway (our town and our place was on CNN, lol). I posted about it then on the old, very first version of DU on the occasion I could get a signal out here.

This mess around Wichita is pretty bad, not only for travel which is going to be an ever-loving mess for a long while but there was a lot of flooding around the small communities down there.

Maxheader

(4,366 posts)
3. Thank goodness you
Thu May 9, 2019, 01:56 PM
May 2019

got out of that ok...Anything the corp of engineers could do to help out?

I worry about the kids that think the flood waters are something to play in...

MuseRider

(34,058 posts)
4. Nothing like that happened in 2007,
Thu May 9, 2019, 02:13 PM
May 2019

and we did not get that this time. If we get much more rain we will but I think we are done for a while with the big rain. It all went well then actually. The police launched their boats from my driveway into the community. There were some on their roofs who could not get out without that. It is a tiny place, maybe a long block long with only a Post Office and a Church. There is a VFW but I don't know if they do anything there anymore. A railroad that runs through that used to be part of the Underground Railroad but that is about it. The only thing floating for them to play with would have been the propane tanks but the police and volunteers got those roped and gathered very quickly thankfully. I saw one float almost all the way to my drive. As to your questions about the Corp of engineers I do not know. I do think there were some things done but since I am not in the village now and was only here then to take care of my farm and watch as the house was built (I was living in a little apartment connected to my horse barn) I was not a part of that. It sure seems to get high but not too high since then. My farm became so loud with running water all down the pastures and the new creeks that were created that you could almost not hear. It was an amazing experience because I spent the time to make sure I was not going to have to deal with FEMA over floods ever and I did not. Everyone else was wrecked but everyone else pitched in.

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