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1993 Floodstage…500 year flood damage on a human scale, by Erwin A. Thompson

Riehlife’s FLOODSTAGE SERIES continues with Erwin A. Thompson’s explanation of sandbagging, pumps and dumps, and fixing up houses after the water goes down. –JGR
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In 1993 we had what they called the “five hundred year flood.”
SANDBAGGING
We tried sand bagging, there in the East Bottom, and it worked for awhile. But there are problems with [...]