For generations, my family lived in Cincinnati, the "Queen City," on the banks of the Ohio River, and they experienced lots of flooding. Actually, they lived closer to the Mill Creek, a tributary of the Ohio, but it flooded when the Ohio did before floodgates were installed. This is one of a number of photos in my family collection from the 1945 flood (in this case, the aftermath). I hope no one took the sign too literally.
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Anyone may feel free to use photos from my family collection as long as they remember to credit me (Gail Hapke) and Scribal Terror as the source.
I bet the sign really says "Boil this water".
Posted by: prairie biker | March 10, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Ya think?
Posted by: gail | March 11, 2008 at 06:42 AM