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MANNING THE LEVEES IN LAWRENCE COUNTY

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LAWRENCE CO.—Sheriff Russell Adams advised today that there are several people out walking the levees tonight in east Lawrence County, as heavy rains up north are causing the Wabash River to rise.

Adams said the Embarrass River isn’t the problem going down through the center of Lawrenceville and to the southeast (although it’s got a backwater problem, with trash-filled water coming up in Kiwanis Park and on both sides of Route 50 outside of town); our rains, while saturating, haven’t been that bad, but what’s happened to the north of us between Illinois and Indiana, and have caused the Wabash to rise steadily, could pose a problem.

So just like in the floods of 2011 and 2008 (the latter of which taught some hard lessons for Lawrence County), volunteers are walking the levees to keep an eye out. Adams told us, at the close of jury selection today for the murder trial of Tyler McQueen, that the volunteers were meeting at 5 p.m. at different points along the levees and fanning out, looking for weak points, the likes of which gave way during the floods two years ago this month and again five years ago in early June.

We drove over to Vincennes and shot the Wabash from the Indiana side. We captured one rhino-type ATV out atop the levee at Westport, but it was unclear whether that was someone in an official or unofficial capacity (for the record, people aren’t supposed to be out on the levees at all if they’re not out there on business; there’s a county ordinance that was passed in 2009 to that effect, and you can get your butt busted over it, just as a reminder…) So we hope that was an official patrol. The water is really high at the Memorial Bridge there between Westport-Vincennes, but so far so good.

Here are the shots we got, beginning with the rhino ATV. We’ll keep you posted if anything else arises from the flooding situation.

The now-infamous four-wheeler

The now-infamous four-wheeler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Water almost to the levee

Water almost to the levee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At least it was a pretty sunset

At least it was a pretty sunset

 

 


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