Administrators Pompeii Posted May 13, 2009 Administrators Share Posted May 13, 2009 I got this emailed from Frank W. R. This is a newspaper photo of remembering the '72 flood. Not sure of the date this story ran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Wow!!!! I was almost 8 when that flood happened. i remember the sulfer creek flooding and roads being closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderer Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 The boulevard was completely flooded, I couldn't get to work, and it went to Nat'l City to the old Pizza Hut. I will never forget it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulywog Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I watched a railroad tie hit the big window at riverside market .................. I remember mom taking us to the flood sales in town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carter Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I have several pics of the flood. The boulevard, PT, Riverside all underwater. they are film pics so I have no idea how to post them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindrop Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 this must have been the same time the dubois reservoir spillway got smashed up from the force of the water, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest snellma Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 I remember it well. I also remember seeing row boats on the boulevard and down by Riverside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavermom Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Andy always talks about boats going in and around PT. And how they watched the water rise right up to the top cellar step. He was all of 6 years old! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slk24 Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Remember the flood VERY WELL!! 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kms Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 My parents got married when that happened in Conneaut Lake. My dad and his brother (Best Man) were firemen in DuBois and had to get up there right before the rehearsal because they were there helping. I think my grandpa was fire chief then (or assistant) and was also stuck there!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSTeach Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 I was 2 months from being born, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charvel135 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 i remember watching the firemen in a boat rescueing my uncle from the roof of his house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.d Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Remembered that and the clean up that followed working at Rockwell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazysmom Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Was this from Agnes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klsm54 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Was this from Agnes? Yes it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Wow!!!! I was almost 8 when that flood happened. i remember the sulfer creek flooding and roads being closed. me 2 !!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busrolls36 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I was 4 when that flood hit. I remember my neighbors had a pool and went away and my mom and 2 couisns were outside dumping the water out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 And born unto the world was the foreboding sign of the times of end. Born unto the world was its own undoing; its own bringer of fate; the consort of the darkness, the guide to eternal nothingness. Born unto the world was the child of the finite... and the skies wept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigP34 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 I was not born yet, not even close.. However, I do remember my Mother telling me the stories of how my Dad rowed in a row boat to work (at Riverside) ... I am sure that was some sight to see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlh64 Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 Perhaps others might have pictures of the '72 flood that they'd like to post. I was about 8 when this happened, also. I remember seeing in the paper a couple pictures of the carnival (that used to be held behind the bus station, now Martins) flooded out, and the kiddie cars up to their fenders in water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickDraw Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 That was on my 3rd birthday. My mom has pictures of people in canoes on the boulevard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderer Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I will never forget it, was out of work for a good 2 to 3 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roverdad Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I remember my parents home-made rootbeer and wines floating in our cellar. Tried to explain those "losses" to my parents but they did not buy my excuse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_rx2000 Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 I remember standing on the top of the "golden stairs" with my mother and sister, looking at the flood down the boulevard at the flood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastman Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Remember it well...Agnes came up over PA and stalled out...and it rained, and rained, and rained for days! I was 16 and had a paper route...I'm sure I saved a paper but have no idea where it is now. My brother worked at PT...I started there 2 years later...and I remember the City Police going into the store in rowboats to get all the guns out of Sporting Goods. While they were in there, they shot several rats floating around on debris, some as big as cats I've been told! The water was about 3 feet deep inside the store. I remember the Army Reserve, which I think was stationed in DuBois at the time, driving duce and half trucks across the boulevard and a front end loader carrying stuff in the bucket, sometimes people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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