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Residents in one small Webster County town say the flood waters got higher than anyone can remember early Friday morning.
It was a rushed morning in the Corle household, as the water from the Osage Fork of the Gasconade rushed in. “Saw the water come up over the road, and decided I better get home and get my wife out of bed and daughter real fast and get to higher ground,” says Mathew Corle.
Corle is thankful he got up early to see if the roads were passable. He says between 6 and 6:30, the river made it from the banks to the living room.
“She wanted to get on the floor and go swimming!” Corle says. 22 month old Piper’s things all got soaked, along with most of the family’s belongings.
“I pulled out the most important things, stuff that couldn’t be replaced, the expensive items, but the most expensive items that I couldn’t replace is my family. They’re the most important. And then our animals that we have, our cats and dogs,” says Corle.
Long time residents say this is the biggest flood Rader has ever seen. “It went in the store down there. It’s never went that high, and we’ve always stacked hay here, one thing or another, and it’s never, never done this before,” says farmer Doyle Stokes.
Doyle says his round bales are 1,000 pounds each, and that’s before they’re waterlogged. He says 18 of them went floating away and disappeared down the river. He’s not sure how many will be wasted because of the flood water.
But he knows his 15 acres of soybeans are gone. “It’s just part of it. If you’re going to farm, you got to live with it. It just, this happens. You hate it, but so what. It happens. Ain’t nothing you can do to change it,” Stokes says.
“All we can do is laugh about it at this point. I mean what else can you do?” says Corle.
The Corle’s landlord has flood insurance, but their renter’s insurance won’t cover flood damage to their belongings. They’re staying with family for the time being.
Stokes is also out of luck, losing at least 40 hay bales and a soybean crop.
Courtesy of ky3.com
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