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The 1937 Flood Journal

Neil Sagebiel

A serialized account of the record Ohio River deluge that devastated my family and an entire region.

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Latest Issues

Flood Denial: 'Daddy Didn't Believe'

The flood caught nearly everybody by surprise. It wrecked property and scattered families. Following are first-hand accounts from Southern Indiana.

Frank Rose: ‘We Were Going to Stay’

Frank Rose was 17. He lived with his father and two si...

20 days ago
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Flood Refugees Flee to Quartermaster Depot

Indiana National Guard Telephone Log

1:15 P.M. - “Raining.” Telephones are out in Jeffersonville. Electricity is expected to go out within three hours.

JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA — M.G. Halliday was the commanding officer of the Jeffersonvil...

a month ago
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Boats and Rescues

JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA — The Pennsylvania Railroad Depot at Fourteenth Street was a hub for rescue operations. Boats arrived by rail on flat cars, to be launched into the heart of Jeffersonville, where people were stranded in homes and bui...

2 months ago
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Author Notes: Tracing My Great Uncle's Flood Diary

JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA — It’s January 28, 2020, a Tuesday. I press record on my Olympus digital voice recorder:

Standing in front of 510 East Market, where Uncle Chic lived in January 1937. Walking west toward Walnut [Street]. Thirty-ei...

3 months ago
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Spence Family Abandons Apartment, Water Enters Diehl Home

PORTSMOUTH, OHIO — At 1:45 p.m. Leo Diehl looked out his upstairs window and saw an unusual “parade.” Floating by were a high-back chair, a Christmas tree and a variety of bottles, cans and baskets.

The accountant wrote in his flood log,...

4 months ago
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    Author of two critically acclaimed books that chronicle great moments in golf. Recovering blogger. I love history and family stories. Let me tell you a story.

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