Exactly 100 years ago this month, THIS happened where I live.

The flood of 1913 was pretty devastating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9PU5AhOcCs"]Dayton Flood 1913 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltv15EfS_20"]Original 1913 flood footage - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4VzLO_3Pec"]1913 Great Flood Columbus, Ohio - YouTube


http://www.greetingsfromdelawareohio.com/1913delawareohioflood


I often walk my dog in the local cemetery and found a gravestone about a couple who lost their lives, along with four of their eight children, in the Delaware OH flood. I found the above link by looking up the flood a couple years ago.

 

I've no idea if this hit this area... Seems to be a shortage of historical reports around here.

 

Interesting glimpse of the past

 

It's probably all grouped with the histories of the nearest large cities. What city are you in/near?

 

Damn I didn't know that.

 

my mom had me when she was 38
her mom had her when she was 36
so my grandmother, born in 1908, was 4 when this went down

but she lived in jackson, ohio, I think. I don't believe was flooded.

I gotta ask my mom when they moved to dayton

 

About mid way between Marion and Mansfield... Head waters for the Olentangy are in my back yard and side yard. It is a creek most of the time but when it gets going it's a river through my basement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olentangy_River

 

Woah, I prolly drove past you on my way to pick up my felon buddy from NCCI in marion .

Is that a new picture of your yard? I remember the tyrsons wood sign from before...

If anyone knows about fucked up flooding, It would be you...

 

That really is quite extraordinary viewing!

Thank you for posting it.

 

It's not a new picture, that happened in 2011, but yeah, floods and I have come to an understanding.

 

Here in the Netherlands the people were frightened for an upcoming war. The larger countries of stronghold Europe were showing how much power they had and nationalism and the patriots grew stronger. The Netherlands tried to stay neutral and they did. Most of the war was faught in the countries in the south, Belgium and France.
The only thing we did in the First World War was selling drugs to the soldiers so they didn't go mad in the pits.

 

If you read the book The century of my father by Geert Mak it seems lots of dutch people weren't busy with that approaching war at all. I don't think 'we' only sold drugs, dutchies liked to make big profits on everything during the first WW

 

a lot of countries make lots of money by a war (good reason to start one). So the people in the economy think it's ok. But the normal people didn't like the idea of it (a good reason to stay neutral). Do you think you feel safe if there is a war between countries all around you? If you are sure you are safe then, and if you are sure the countries are not using your ground for a war, then your trust in mankind is to big.

Fortunately there were no fights on our ground but in a time like that you can't just trust other countries (not even your own).

Geert is a great historian, I think he wrote that the governement was not afraid for loosing there neutrality. The people must be.

 

I think the majority of the people felt save, yes. Their world was not so big back then and they didn't worry about 'mankind' or Europe, perhaps not even about the province on the other end of their country. Their version of the Netherlands was what they knew and saw (or read or hear, which the average person limited to their fav source, ignoring all other).