River #1 –

I am at Rivera Drive & Breiel Blvd.

The water at the railroad bridge is better than half way up on the supports and it is gathering a lot of debris.

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River #2 –

I am at Verity Parkway & Germantown Road

From here I can see people loading vehicles and evacuating Poast Town. There is some activity at the airport, it looks like they are loading some planes on trailers and trying to fly some out.

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River #3 –

I am at Central Ave & Carmody Blvd

I can see most of west Middletown from here. It looks like the flood water is just starting to fill the streets.

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River #4 –

I am at SR-73 East of the River

I am in a position to view the east side of Trenton. The river is really getting high here.

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River #5 –

I am at Rt-4 & SR-63

There is already water crossing Rt 4 from this little creek that runs under the road. You might want to notify someone to come out here and put up some high water signs.

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River #6 –

I am at Rt-4 & Liberty Fairfield Rd

Water here is already up to the bottoms of most of the telephone poles. Some of the road is covered too.

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River #7-

I am at SR-127 & Seven Mile Ave

I have the same thing to report here, roads are partially covered and the water seems to be rising.

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River #8 –

I am at City Building on High St. 4^th floor west side of building

The river is almost to the bottom of all the bridges crossing it. It won’t be long before they will need to be closed.

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River #9 -

I am at SR-128 & Hine Rd

The river is up to the edge of the road at this location. SR128 will soon be underwater.

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River #10 –

I am at SR127 & Nilles Rd New Library building

The river was up to the water plant about 10 minutes ago. I could see it on my way here.

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River #11 -

I am at Layhigh rd ½ mile east of Windy Knoll Dr

The river is the highest I have seen it in a long time. It looks to be about ½ way up on the SR-27 overpass. Wish we had a "depth" marked on one of those supports so I could better judge the depth of the water.

River #1 – (break in on previous report)

I have EMERGENCY TRAFFIC.

A huge debris pile and wall of water just hit the Conrail bridge at my location.

The bridge has collapsed and is being washed down river.

Notify Conrail they no longer have a bridge to cross here.

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Oh my god a wall of water just wiped out Poast Town, I can see several mobile homes and pieces of mobile homes afloat going down stream.

I have no idea how many made it out.

What airplanes were left behind at the airport are now gone too. I can see a couple tail sections sticking up out of the water but they are all washing downstream.

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Most of West Middletown has water to the second floor of 90% of the buildings.

Houses are submerged or have been washed away.

Check with Red Cross to see if everyone got out to another shelter.

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Trenton is completely underwater. It was like a tidal wave just swept through here taking everything with it. I don’t know how anyone could have gotten out in time.

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RT 4 in front of Americana is under 10-15 feet of water, people are trying to drive through it!

I just saw two cars float away from trying. We need someone out here to block this road NOW!

I’m stopping them from this side but I can’t get to the other side.

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Woodsdale and Rockdale are underwater. It didn’t seem like the main wave hit the towns head on-it just filled with water real quick. I didn’t hear any sirens alerting them. I don’t know how they could have got out in time.

Hey, there are two people hanging on to some debris floating down stream-they are yelling and waving at me for help. They are not too far off the bank if you can tell the post downstream from me they may be able to get them out.

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I have a 50 foot rope in my car! I will go get it and see if I can toss it to them.

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All the bridges across the river are no longer visible. I don’t know if they are just debris and water covered or if they are totally washed out.

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EMERGENCY TRAFFIC!

SR-128 about 1 mile south of the city limits a gasoline tanker truck was driving in the flood water and was swept off the road. The driver was still in the cab blowing his air horn as it went in!

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River #10 –

The water has reached all the way to SR-127/Pleasant Ave. and is about a foot deep on the first floor at the library.

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River #11 –

By the time the tidal wave got to here with all the debris, it hit the overpass with such force that all the cars on the bridge were tossed into the water.

Ross looks to be gone. And that debris pile that passed through just took out the large steel towers carrying the high tension cables just south of here.

Notify CG&E they have a major set of lines down.

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River #2

Poast Town is now completely underwater. I am not sure where they were at in the evacuation process. Several mobile homes are afloat in the backwash. Someone needs to check the area for any survivors!

Hook Field is also totally under water. I can see several of the aircraft being washed down stream; I can still see tail fins on some of the one’s still anchored down. The water is up to the base of the control tower. I don’t see anyone around. I couldn’t get any tail numbers off the planes washed away.

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River #3

I can see most of West Middletown from here. Flood waters up to the second floors of most of the buildings and houses. I have seen several mobile homes being washed away.

There is no signs of any survivors.

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River #4

The east side of Trenton is completely underwater. Several buildings have collapsed or have been washed away. It all looks pretty flat from here. I don’t know how they could have all gotten out in time. It looks like the whole town is gone..

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River #5

Rt 4 near Americana is under at least 10-15 feet of water. There were occupied cars in the dip in the road when the initial tidal wave covered the road. I don’t think the park had been totally evacuated either. Notify Fire-Rescue that they will need to get out here and check for survivors.

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River #6

Rockdale and Woodsdale are both underwater up to the tops of the telephone poles.

Most of the buildings and houses are all underwater. I will continue to check the area with binoculars from my location.

Wait, wait a minute, I have one-no, two people clinging onto a TV antenna tower that looks like a 50 foot Rohn 25G, almost in the middle of Woodsdale.

They appear to be near the top of the tower but only about 5 feet out of the water. It looks like they are around Augspurger Rd and Grant Lane. We need Fire-Rescue here Immediately!

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River #8

Downtown Hamilton has extensive flooding with water reaching as high as the 2cd and 3^rd floors on most buildings.

The Columbia Bridge is either under water or completely gone.

Conditions of the remaining bridges across the river are unknown-

They can not be seen due to the high water.

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River #11

It appears the town of Ross is Gone!

The flooding as far as I can see, goes as far north to the first floor at the new Ross high school and as far south as I can see, west to the bottom of the hill on Layhigh and as far as I can see east into Hamilton County.

The water is only about 10 feet from the bottom of the bridge at US27, debris is catching on the bottom of the overpass.

(wait a few seconds)

Control, Stand By a minute, I just hearing a loud roar and saw a huge blue corona and fireball south of this location.

Control, I can see two of the large high-tension line towers, both are leaning toward one another.

It appears they have been moved by the initial tidal wave and the wires are actually hanging in the water, possibly struck by that gasoline tanker.

It looks to be just south of the Butler-Hamilton county line, south of SR-126 in Ross.

Notify CINergy as soon as possible they need to turn the power off to those lines ASAP!

River #2 –

I have 5 people clinging to tree’s about 150 yards from me.

We need someone up here to get them out of the water right away! Notify water rescue!

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River #1-

There are only about 6-8 houses still standing-I have at least 2-3 people on the roof’s of those houses! They are yelling for help! They see me and I am trying to tell them to stay put that we will get someone to them, but I don’t think they can hear me over the noise of the water.

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River #4 –

A tow truck at my location has snagged a school bus with kids on board that was stuck in the high water. The force of the water is pulling the bus and his truck into the water-he needs help here immediately or we will loose them all.

Advise an ETA on another tow truck- hopefully a bigger one!

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River #11 –

The 127 bridge over the river is beginning to sway badly- someone needs to stop all the traffic and get those people off that bridge-I think it is about ready to go!

Is there any word on Water Rescue? How long is it going to take to get them out here to these people-we’re still loosing them!

We need a tow truck here right away!

Send a life squad to my location- I have 6.

Did you ever get hold of water rescue about these people trapped in their car out here!?

It is not going down any – if anything it is continuing to rise!

OSP is here and they need an ETA for water rescue!

One of the people hanging on that tower fell off and I can no longer see them. The second one is still clinging on, but it looks like he is getting weaker. Any clue when water rescue might show up?

River #4 (your hacked off because nothing has been done)

I heard somebody ask for an update from here. No thanks to your speediness in getting another tow truck out here that has not shown up yet, half the bus is under water, the tow truck driver has drown and half the kids are hanging on to the top of the bus.

The rest are still trapped inside. Think you guys can do something like make a phone call the right way and actually get us some help out here before they all die!?

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Are you guys making calls at all?

Now we have a train in the river that apparently did not know the bridge was out!

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