Ohio Flood Crest Reaches Mississippi

The Ohio River’s crest eased into the Mississippi River, flooding a small part of Wickliffe, Ky., where the two rivers join. Fewer than a dozen Wickliffe homes and a city park were under water although the water was 16 feet above flood stage. The merged rivers break flood stage every two to three years, so no one lives in the flood plain, said Ricky Dennis at the J&D; Fish Market, where a chart on the bait shop wall chronicles a century of flooding. “We get the double whammy here--from the north and the east,” Dennis said. Upriver from Wickliffe, the Ohio had inundated nearly 1,000 miles of shoreline, the region’s worst flooding in 30 years.