Floods
The Mahoning river is susceptible to frequent flooding during high rain events. One such event started when 3 days of torrential rain fell in July 2003 which caused the river to change its course in Leavittsburg, Ohio destroying almost a hundred homes.
Here is a pictorial of some of the flooded areas.
| July 2003 flood | ||
| Packard Park lower section | Packard Park ball diamonds flooded | Packard Park crosswalk |
| Packard Park seagulls escaping the flood | Summit Street bridge almost overrun | Summit Street old power plant dam engulfed |
| Summit Street closeup of dam engulfed | Riverwalk to nowhere | |
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Famous quotes containing the word floods:
“And to your more bewitching, see the proud,
Plump bed bear up, and swelling like a cloud,
Tempting the two too modest; can
Ye see it brustle like a swan,
And you be cold
To meet it when it woos and seems to fold
The arms to hug you? Throw, throw
Yourselves into the mighty overflow
Of that white pride, and drown
The night with you in floods of down.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“When raging love with extreme pain
Most cruelly distrains my heart,
When that my tears, as floods of rain,
Bear witness of my woeful smart;
When sighs have wasted so my breath
That I lie at the point of death,”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)
“Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills be joyful together.
Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth; with
righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm XCVIII (l. XCVIII, 8–9)