And I STILL Don’t Believe It
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (73555)
United States
April 13, 2025 10:59pm CST
The rain has been over for a week now. The flood waters are receding. I’ve seen the drone footage and the photos online, and I don’t believe it.
Saturday I took a drive to West Point, Kentucky, which sits at the confluence of the Salt River and the Ohio River. I love the little town, and I have fond memories of concerts and just sitting along the bank of the river, enjoying a summer afternoon.
The photos are of the flooding.
I stood there. I took these. I talked to townspeople (including a guy that I used to work with at the post office!). And I still don’t believe it.
Despite all of the horrible visuals, no one in West Point was injured. Likewise, with our flooding AND an EF-3 tornado, we had no injuries in Louisville. Sadly, we have had six deaths from this bout of severe weather, to go along with the 20 fatalities from the February event.
It has been worse. The pole in the middle of the photo on the right is what I call the “flood post.” On it are signs that show the crest of the worst floods in West Point. At the very top of that pole is the one for 1937. The man at the West Point Museum told me that the actual crest was about four feet ABOVE the top of the pole. 
The Red Cross was there, and the West Point Fire Department (the photo on the bottom left is the back of the building, showing where the water has entered the basement) had a set up for feeding anyone who needed it. There was lots of hammering heard as I walked around, and a number of people with their gloves and boots and masks on, cleaning things up as the water started to recede.
I’ll go back in a couple of months and this park (Veterans Park) will be lovely again. But for right now, they have an unwelcome visitor from the Ohio River.
PHOTOS:
(Top Left) The Veterans Park playground
(Bottom left) Back of the West Point Fire Department building, showing water in the basement
(Right) The “flood post” in the middle of the picture, surrounded by water and submerged signs.
The Red Cross was there, and the West Point Fire Department (the photo on the bottom left is the back of the building, showing where the water has entered the basement) had a set up for feeding anyone who needed it. There was lots of hammering heard as I walked around, and a number of people with their gloves and boots and masks on, cleaning things up as the water started to recede.
I’ll go back in a couple of months and this park (Veterans Park) will be lovely again. But for right now, they have an unwelcome visitor from the Ohio River.
PHOTOS:
(Top Left) The Veterans Park playground
(Bottom left) Back of the West Point Fire Department building, showing water in the basement
(Right) The “flood post” in the middle of the picture, surrounded by water and submerged signs.11 people like this
9 responses
@FourWalls (73555)
• United States
14 Apr
We’re nearing the centennial of the Mississippi River flood of 1927. It doesn’t really happen that often, but oh, when it does!
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@kareng (72394)
• United States
14 Apr
@FourWalls They are watching Vicksbury and Natchez, MS. I believe some spots in Louisiana are also on the watch list.
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@RasmaSandra (83878)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Apr
The only ones that benefit from water everywhere are ducks and geese,
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@FourWalls (73555)
• United States
15 Apr
Yes, and they’re out walking in the middle of the streets like they’ve forgotten that they can fly! 
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@FourWalls (73555)
• United States
14 Apr
The guy I worked with said that it was much worse in 1997, but he’d still rather live there than anywhere.
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@wolfgirl569 (114471)
• Marion, Ohio
14 Apr
That is a lot of water. Glad there was no deaths this time.
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@FourWalls (73555)
• United States
14 Apr
Yes, that is. Two rivers nearby with nowhere to go but OUT, and out they went.
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@LindaOHio (186538)
• United States
14 Apr
How awful. I hope the heavy rain is over for now.
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@FourWalls (73555)
• United States
14 Apr
We have rain forecast for today and this weekend. After TWO floods in two months you know people get a little jumpy when they say “rain,” but they keep assuring us it won’t be like the “big storms” we’ve had.
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@FourWalls (73555)
• United States
14 Apr
I know it’s beautiful by the river, but no way would I want to live that close to one.
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@FourWalls (73555)
• United States
14 Apr
And it was just over six months ago that the Mississippi River was so low that I could walk out to Tower Rock IN the river.
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@FourWalls (73555)
• United States
15 Apr
They’re “used to it.” I suppose similar to the people who opt to build on the coastline in a hurricane zone. Not something I would consider.
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@FourWalls (73555)
• United States
15 Apr
@Fleura — the coastline has homes on stilts everywhere. Even in parts of town on the banks of the river here in Louisville, you see homes on stilts. We have a flood wall that protects most of the city so we don’t experience another 1937 flood (which crested about two miles south of my house back then! 
). However, that river is going to do what it wants to. And people are going to pay the expense of the property, the insurance, and the repeated flooding to live there.
). However, that river is going to do what it wants to. And people are going to pay the expense of the property, the insurance, and the repeated flooding to live there.1 person likes this
@Fleura (31448)
• United Kingdom
15 Apr
@FourWalls Do they build any kind of flood-resistant homes if it's a regular event? Like on stilts or something?
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@FourWalls (73555)
• United States
14 Apr
I’ve had to clean three trees (one at a time, fell in different years) off my property from where they fell. I couldn’t imagine cleaning them all at once PLUS the muck from the river.
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