Ohio Rivers Rise Past Records
UPDATE: Here is a photo of the flooding in Findlay:
Ohio Under Water - Aug. 22, 2007 - Streets are flooded in Findlay, Ohio on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007. Firefighters and a volunteer armada navigated boats through streets awash in waist-deep water Wednesday, plucking neighbors and pets from porches as flooding that has swamped the Upper Midwest and Plains settled in Ohio. (AP Photo/ Kiichiro Sato)
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UPDATE (3:30 PM Eastern): Fox News is showing live aerial footage of the flooding in Findlay via WTVG, who has video coverage and photos on their website. It would appear that most of the town is underwater, which is not surprising given the stats below.
Even though the rain has slacked off, the rivers are still on the rise in Ohio. At 12 PM, the Blanchard river at Findlay, OH (AHPS) was the worst, already breaking through Major Flood stage and only three inches away from the Record Stage set in 1913! It is forecast to meet that record later today, then start to fall.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says that 22 people have been killed by the floods. The Washington Post has some impressive video.
The stats from the river at Findlay are impressive... it has risen over 17 feet, and the amount of water flowing through has increased from an average discharge of 20 cubic feet per second to over 15,000 (USGS)!
Another river of note is the Fox River (no, not from Prison Break, it's in Wisconsin) (AHPS | Archived) which has exceeded its record gauge height, set in 1994.
All in all, 69 river gauges are forecast to be over flood stage in the next day:
