Flooded Marietta~~Sept.2004

~September 18, 2004~

After a couple days of heavy rainfall, the Ohio River began to rise and spill over its banks turning our little town into a flooded mess!
We had to park in Williamstown {WVa} and walk across the bridge to Marietta to get these pictures of Mom and Dad's condo with the flood waters surrounding it. No one had any idea the night before that the water would rise as fast as it did overnight and through the next day!
Mom called us around 7am that morning and told us to hurry in to get them because the water was coming up fast! When we got there it was already across the road in front of their condo and inching its way into the parking lot behind them! We quickly piled Mom and Dad and what little they had time to grab into the truck and headed back home to Devola. The flooded places we had driven through before on the way in were even deeper by now and it was quite a stressful trip home!