Elizabethtown Floods, September 2006
I was going to drive to work Friday night and it was raining, but little did I know what was in store. I knew when it rained hard that the poorly-thought out underpass leading to I-65 to Louisville becomes a small river, so I took the alternate route to Louisville, but as I headed down highway 31, visibility cut down to about fifteen feet and soon I felt like my car was driving more like a motorboat, with jets of water shooting up both sides. I pulled into a parking lot and turned back to higher ground.
All the lights went out on the highway and soon phone service went out. I called into work and called home to tell my wife, and on the way back
I saw a little neon up to its windshield in water.
Melissa, bless her heart, wanted to see for herself. This is classic flood stupid behavior, but our apartment was quite safe and we drove out but found the path to the highway flooded by a rising creek, a cadillac forded part way in but stalled. We turned into a shopping center parking lot to see a minivan and a strip mall flooded, including a dentist's office my mom frequents. A small torrent rushed out into the parking lot of a small fruit market and drive through of a bank and the adjacent road to the highway was cut off. We snapped some phone cam pictures, only to find our other way back home blocked by more water. We had to wait out the storm in the dry part of the lot until the flood waters receded.
I've never seen Elizabethtown flood this badly.
