With over 24 hours of increased flow out of the Dover Dam, roads are starting to clear off. Cars are making it though the standing water that's left on Dover-Zoar Rd which is good news for folks that have to get to Dover-Philly from the north!
As stated earlier, the water that covered the bottom of North Orchard has disappeared in less then 24 hours and add to that, the water level on the 212 bridge over the river is back to about what it was Friday afternoon! So hopefully the rest of the water at the interchange will make like a tree and.....you get the drill.
Work continues at the Zoar Levee tonight. What started out as just a gravel road being built has grown into a huge project at the levee. Where once there was sandbags is now covered with dirt, and lots of it! Also in Zoar tonight, it appears that people are taking the possible evacuation to heart. Units from the Bolivar Fire/EMS are on hand in town to assist Zoar if needed. We also saw what looked like folks loading up a pickup with personal items to get them to higher ground.
We also wanted to give a shout-out to Gov. Ted Strickland for coming up to Zoar last night to see things first hand. From the lack of media attention, (the television media that was there to tape the meeting didn't even mention his presence), this was an unplanned visit without much if any fanfare. He even got turned around due to the flooding. So from the looks of it, he does have a genuine concern for what's going on in the area.
That's it for tonight. Hopefully these posts will become less frequent. Hopefully there won't be a need for these posts ever again in the future. It's my blog, I can dream.
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