From March 23, 1913 to March 27, 1913, the entire state of Ohio was under water, enduring what is still considered the worst weather-related incident to ever hit the Buckeye State.
467 Ohioans died and more than 40,000 homes were flooded as between 6-11 inches of rain fell, pushing rivers and dams past their brinks.
The shot above was taken on Belle Avenue in Lakewood. Many more pictures here and here taken throughout the state detail the devastation — bridges broken, ships crashed, etc.
The snapshot below is from downtown Columbus.
This article appears in Mar 20-26, 2013.
I am pretty sure that this is why when you sell your home, the taxes go back six months. This flood closed down all government offices for months and the taxes could not be collected. The result was that property taxes had to be collected “in arrears” so when you buy a home you get a check from the seller of the property who paid property taxes up to closing and when you purchase a home your given a check to put your taxes six months behind.
The whole state flooded and you come up with something about how we pay property taxes? Maybe it is just me, but I am sure the last thing the government was worrying about, or the residents of Ohio for that matter is property taxes. Perhaps you should wake up and let your brain start working before you post things online?
ALL of Ohio? I don’t think so. ALL of Ohio is not low lying land.
Its, ridiculous, how could he possibly say “ALL OF OHIO”, if that happened, the death toll would be much higher, besides there are many areas in Ohio that are elevated, and would not have been flooded.
9 dislikes on my comment huh, how about you Google some Ohio history, I am pretty sure you will not find a headline that says “Ohio Floods Cause Property Tax Delay”, idiots
Wow…Crabby!!
Must be the weather…
So, since no one else thought this was worthy of a comment, I’ll just say what a shame that almost 500 people died. That goes to tell you just how bad things were and how quick people can get swept away by water when there is no advance warning that its coming. Hopefully a flood in the current day would not have such a death rate because people are so connected to news and alerts. Ironically, however, I’m sure some people would die because they were too busy being “connected” to pay attention to the warnings that a wall of water was on its way.
damn thats crazy