Monday, October 5, 2015

Historic Flooding in Columbia (Shady Lane Still Cut Off)

My house is up on high ground, so I am able to provide a place for my parents to stay until the water goes down. Their house is ground zero for all the Gills Creek flooding, so they were rescued by boat.

Just tried to get back to their house this morning, but all roads to Shady Lane (Kilbourne, Quail Lane, and Woodlake) are all still impassibly flooded. Shady Lane is still cut off. Hopefully, the water will go down soon so we can get them back in there and start the process of drying things out.

Meanwhile, everyone is safe, dry, and in high spirits here at my house. Here are a few pictures from this morning. Here are two pictures from our attempt to make it back to Shady Lane, where we had to turn back.

Woodlake and Kathwood. You can't tell from this picture, but water is flowing with force.

Kilbourne Road bridge over (well, actually under) Gills Creek.

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3 comments:

  1. UnknownOctober 5, 2015 at 12:51 PM

    Glad you guys are doing OK!

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  2. AnonymousOctober 5, 2015 at 1:00 PM

    wow we had been concerned about your folks - been praying for y'all

    thanks for posting this

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  3. Al T.October 5, 2015 at 1:16 PM

    Up here in Harbison, it's relatively dry, but the lack of traffic makes it weird.

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