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:
“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)
“Poor verdant fool, and now green ice! thy joys,
Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass,
Bid us lay in ‘gainst winter rain, and poise
Their floods with an o’erflowing glass.”
—Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)
“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.