The Tuscarawas County EMA, aside from declaring the county under a disaster, activated the reverse 911 system again to let us know that Dover-Zoar Rd will be underwater by tonight. And I believe it. Before lunch we headed down to the bridge by I-77 and it was covered with water about half-way. Just now before coming home we stopped back down there, (approx 3 hours after being there earlier), and the entire bridge is underwater or has standing water on it. But, there are still routes out of Wilkshire Hills/Zoar. Aside from the newly constructed road to get over the Bolivar Dam, there is easy access to Rt 800 north of Mineral City by following the north leg of Dover-Zoar Rd. past Holy Trinity Church and keep going until you get there essentially. I do highly recommend staying off of Mineral City Zoar Rd unless you have a truck. It's getting pretty chewed up by all the traffic.
With continued access to the area slowly eroding away we noticed that Wendy's and The Zoar Tavern are closed. I hope this doesn't put the current owner of the Tavern out of business like what happened to the last owner with the last flood. As we were coming back from looking at the flooding on Towpath, we were waved down by a crew from Channel 19 and they ended up interviewing me. So it you're watching Channel 19 between the playoff games tonight, look for the fat man in a red coat with a Dale Jr hat on answering questions ;-) That's yours truly.
More updates later. Pictures are uploading to Flickr...as always.
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