Oxmoor Farm is "dry as a bone" and just fine - I just called to check
(Oxmoor is the late 18th century home of the Bullitt family, now owned
by the Filson Historical Society in Louisville.) Farmington (home of the
Speed Family) is fine.

The flooding here was true flash flooding rather than a rising river
overflowing - any low areas were subject to immediate sudden flooding,
especially where drainage was poor or drains were blocked. Sewers backed
up, manhole covers were thrown up in the air with water pressure from
below. The ground was already saturated from earlier rains. There was
just no place for that volume of water to go that fast (6 inches in 75
minutes!). Low-lying areas, areas in hollows, were inundated - that's
what happened at Churchill Downs and the Derby Museum, and the
University of Louisville, and areas of downtown around Broadway, which
is just slightly lower than the Ohio river bank ridge along Main Street
(same thing happened in the Great Flood of 1937).

Most of us were fine. But it does make me re-think the idea of basement
storage areas, and we all should dust off those emergency plans and look
under "floods". 

Our third official natural disaster in Louisville in one year!
Hurricane, Ice Storm, Flood. Next - Plague?

Carol Ely
Locust Grove
Louisville

-----Original Message-----
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Did Oxmoor farm get flooded too?

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:29:38 -0400
>From: Candace Perry <[log in to unmask]>  
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>Thanks Carol -- that's what I was worried about. The collections at the
>Derby Museum are in the basement.  Oh, dear.
>Candace Perry
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>-----Original Message-----
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>The Derby Museum had serious water damage to archival materials and
some
>exhibits; no one else seems to be reporting problems on that scale. The
>University of Louisville was also badly flooded and is closed today. 
>
>We're fine here - 18th century surveyors knew how to pick a house site!
>
>Carol Ely
>Historic Locust Grove
>(on a high ridge in Louisville, KY)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>I understand Churchill Downs and The Derby Museum were flooded...does
>anybody on list know anything?  Also, are other Louisville
>museums/historic
>houses okay?
>Candace Perry
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