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:
“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)
“In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 7:25.