Description:More than seventeen inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period the third weekend in August 2007 - but Rushford residents were not especially worried when they went to bed that Saturday night. Though the area had been prone to flooding in the past, a dike system from the late 1960s was rated to withstand even the dreaded "100 Year Flood." But at around 3:00 AM Sunday, water from Rush Creek surged over the dikes in what would be labeled a "500 Year Flood," changing the town and its residents forever. Many stories, both tragic and triumphant, have come from the flood of 2007. Within this book are the stories of one group at the forefront of evacuating stranded citizens as their neighborhoods filled with water in the early morning darkness - the Rushford Volunteer Fire Department.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Brothers in the Water: The Rushford Volunteer Fire Department and the Flood of 2007. To get started finding Brothers in the Water: The Rushford Volunteer Fire Department and the Flood of 2007, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
112
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Rushford Community Foundation
Release
2011
ISBN
Brothers in the Water: The Rushford Volunteer Fire Department and the Flood of 2007
Description: More than seventeen inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period the third weekend in August 2007 - but Rushford residents were not especially worried when they went to bed that Saturday night. Though the area had been prone to flooding in the past, a dike system from the late 1960s was rated to withstand even the dreaded "100 Year Flood." But at around 3:00 AM Sunday, water from Rush Creek surged over the dikes in what would be labeled a "500 Year Flood," changing the town and its residents forever. Many stories, both tragic and triumphant, have come from the flood of 2007. Within this book are the stories of one group at the forefront of evacuating stranded citizens as their neighborhoods filled with water in the early morning darkness - the Rushford Volunteer Fire Department.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Brothers in the Water: The Rushford Volunteer Fire Department and the Flood of 2007. To get started finding Brothers in the Water: The Rushford Volunteer Fire Department and the Flood of 2007, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.