Sudden storm triggers flooding throughout city

Friday, June 5, 2009

The sudden storm that ripped through Mountain Home just before 4 p.m. Friday, dropping a large amount of rain and hail, caused significant flooding throughout the city.

Immediately following the onset of the 15-minuted deluge, the underpass had two to three feet of water in it and drivers moving through the downtown area were up to their hubcaps in water, which threatened to enter the ground-floor areas of many businesses.

Areas of the city that normally flood during any storm due to back-ups in the city's stormwater removal system were overflowing well beyond normal.

In less than two hours, however, even though a heavy rain continued to fall, the worst of the flooding had cleared up, with the downtown drain systems and the pumps in the underpass restoring the roadway to wet, but not flooded, conditions.

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Wow, I went through the underpass and missed the 2 - 3 feet of water in the underpass. I did want my boat to travel down American Legion. I have never seen it this bad. Kudoa to the Street Department, Police, Fire Dept and Parks & Recs. They are all out in force trying to control the water in some very bad conditions. Stay home if you do not have to drive at all till the storms pass.

-- Posted by B Mullen on Fri, Jun 5, 2009, at 5:39 PM
Thanks OG! Be safe.

-- Posted by OpinionMissy on Fri, Jun 5, 2009, at 6:57 PM
OM,

I plan on sitting in my house and watching the rain fall and fall.

-- Posted by B Mullen on Fri, Jun 5, 2009, at 7:16 PM
Brookside Court has enough water to accomodate a Kayak, and Ridge Crest Park's wooden bridge has floated off the culvert it once use to cross. Saturday, June 6, 2009.

-- Posted by skyphillips on Sun, Jun 7, 2009, at 12:17 AM
To anyone with any knowledge of the Basque's 1950/60's history around Mtn. Home. I'm helping a friend try to find info about her father (now deceased), a French Basque named Pierre Gamio. We understand he was working on the Base around 1960 building the runway, and also think he was in the Nampa/Caldwell area in the 1950's. May also have been in the Elko area and points further west. Went to work on the dams in Oregon and Wash. after the AFB work. Anyone who may have known him, or may have records for those periods? Older Basque families who could help. We have checked the Boise Basque musuem and will check Mtn. Home's musuem. Does anyone have hotel records from the 50's or 60's etc? We appreciate any leads. Thank you.

-- Posted by jusolme on Sun, Jun 14, 2009, at 8:12 PM

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