Flood Impacts 🅘

• 22 - River levels approaching the 500 year flood. This level is more than 3 feet above June 2008. There is great destruction along SR 46 between I-65 and Columbus and along the SR 11 corridor south of Columbus to Seymour. Flood waters threaten old wellhouse. Columbus is cut off from the outside world via land transportation.
• 19.5 - Record flooding is in progress. Flood flow may approximate that of the March 1913 estimated flow. Although 2nd Street and 3rd Street in Columbus are dry, one cannot enter Columbus via 2nd Street because the river bridge is flooded and one cannot leave Columbus via 3rd Street because SR 46 is extremely flooded west of the river. Thus Columbus is very likely isolated via land transportation.
• 18.61 - Record flooding developed rapidly in June 2008 following rains of up to 11 inches in the Edinburgh area on very wet ground with the river already in flood at 10 ft when the rain began. Communications with the Columbus area were lost early during this flood and isolated the city. The severe river flooding occurred during darkness. While majority of flood damage to the city was caused by Haw Creek, this flood surpassed the March 1913 flood to be the greatest flood to strike this area of the East Fork White.