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The Glensfork Flood of 2009

Mark Hale documents the flooding with cell phone pictures
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The heavy rains which produced the flooding in Gradyville on May 8, 2009, also flooded downtown Glensfork, KY.

Mark Hale reports, "Some of the locals said Hardscratch had had over 7 inches of rain for that week."

He continued, "I don't know how much fell on Friday, but was a lot in a short period of time.

He took some pictures, with his cell phone camera, while standing on the porch of the Hardscratch Store in Glensfork. The photos show water over KY 55, the Main Street through the town. Even so, he noted, "The water was about about six inches higher before the photos were made."
See also: History of Glensfork: aka Glenville, Glens Fork, & Hardscratch




This story was posted on 2009-05-12 03:02:32
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School bus through Glens Fork Flood May 8, 2009



2009-05-12 - Glensfork (Hardscratch) District 3, Adair Co. KY - Photo by Mark Hale.
MARK HALE was standing on the front of the Hardscratch Grocery, Glensfork, KY during the flood, Friday, May 8, 2009, when the creek was over the road. He sent these remarkably clear photos for pictures taken with a cell phone. Above, left, an Adair County school bus passes Gary's Garage across the street from Mark Hale's vantage point with apparent ease, but, in the right photo appears to be going into deeper water. The water was receding at the time the photos were taken. "It had been about six inches higher just a short time before the photos were taken," Hale said.

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Glensfork flood of May 8, 2009: like Tupman's pond



2009-05-12 - Glensfork (Hardscratch) District 3, Adair Co. KY - Photo by Mark Hale.
WERE IT NOT FOR THE BUILDINGS and the gas pump, a motorist might think they were driving through the center of Tupman's Pond, but that is 2 miles north of Glensfork, KY, where Mark Hale took these photos of cars sloshing through the town on Friday, May 8, 2008. Hale says that locals reported 7 inches of rain in the prior week, and a downpour on Friday. The main scene above is looking north, from Glensfork's famous Hardscratch General Store. The date of the flood was a little over a century since the June 7, 1907 cloudbursts caused the deadly Gradyville Flood, and, according to the late Rena Tupman's memory of elder's tales, created Tupman Pond.

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