Flash Flood in USA on Sunday, 03 August, 2014 Description Several Trumbull County communities were hardest hit by Saturday afternoon’s heavy rain. Among them were Cort-land, Bazetta, Champion and Girard, emergency-response supervisors said. “The storm sewers were working. It’s just that we had so much water so fast,” said Cortland fire Capt. A.C. McMillion. One Cortland resident with a backyard rain gauge reported 4 inches of rain fell there in 40 minutes between 2 and 3 p.m., McMillion said. Most of a steep gravel driveway washed down onto state Route 46, with the city service department having been called to scoop it off the road, the fire captain said. Old Oak Drive had to be barricaded temporarily when it was covered by a foot of water from overflowing nearby Walnut Creek, he said. “Everything, for the most part, drained off fairly well,” after the storm, he added. A large tree fell on the roof of an apartment building on Cortview Drive, puncturing that roof and an apartment’s bedroom ceiling. The occupant of that apartment was home but not injured. “Once it stopped raining, it receded quickly,” Girard Police Capt. Richard Bzinak said of the floodwater. However, because of a storm-sewer failure, East Kline Street there remains closed indefinitely from U.S. Route 422 (North State Street) to North Avenue, he said. “The storm-sewer exploded. The pipe just disintegrated. It made an instant sinkhole,” Bzinak explained. U.S. Route 422 at Smithsonian Street, Kline and Broadway was flooded, along with areas of Patricia Drive and Park Avenue, he said, adding that there also was considerable basement and yard flooding. A three-car rear-end collision occurred at 2:56 p.m. on Interstate 80 in Girard after traffic slowed due to poor visibility during the rain, but there were no injuries, Bzinak said. About 2 inches of rain fell in less than an hour over much of southwestern Trumbull County, flooding low-lying areas and underpasses, with the National Weather Service having issued a flash-flood warning for that county Saturday afternoon. Because of the rain, North Meridian Road had to be closed at Leharps Road and at Riblett Road at 3:46 p.m., but it later reopened, according to an Austintown emergency dispatcher. Elmwood Avenue and Forest Hill Drive were flooded, but the water receded quickly, she added. On the southern boundary of Boardman, the Market Street and Western Reserve Road intersection cleared up quickly after being flooded by a storm drain backup, a Boardman emergency-dispatcher said.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 13:05:55 +0000
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