2022 Fall Home and Garden

2022 Fall Home & Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS Sept. 23, 2022 Page 27 Y ep! Lincoln was an island surrounded by water with limited to no access, and loss of utilities for a period of hours and days. A series of newspaper clippings below shared by Elkhart resident Chris McGee, follow a weather event that occurred in October 1926. The effects of nearly four inches of rain in 48 hours culminated in loss of utilities and access to Lincoln. While nearly 100 years have passed, such events still pose problems. Only the use of horses differs and has gone by the wayside, except in some search and rescue efforts today. In the past 25 years there have been numerous rains and snows that have closed roads and cut off Logan County communities. In the 1990s there was a five-inch rain that fell in one hour that flooded Lincoln streets, popped manhole covers and spouted six-foot tall geysers, parked cars floated and were strewn in the roadways. Today, power blackouts occur more and often, water boils are occasionally necessary, flooding and snow disrupt travel, cell phones lose signal, fibers get cut, communications and power go down, and its back to a can of beans for candlelight dinner, smoke signals and carrier pigeon to send messages; or it feels that way. Things happen, man-made and nature. They always have, they always will, which man must contend with to stay well and safe. Being prepared and maintaining situational awareness can make the difference in more than your comfort and convenience; it could even mean preserving your life. If you practice the emergency management motto: “Prepare for the worst, and hope for the best!” you should come out alright and with a great story to tell later. Aloha, Islanders! Thanks to Chris McGee for the century old story. [Jan Youngquist] Flood Extra Lincoln Evening Courier and Lincoln Herald Monday, October 3, 1926 City Water and Light Plant flooded Battling record high water with sand bags With the city’s electrical power shut off when flood waters poured into the plant of the Lincoln Water and Light Co., over a hundred workmen were fighting a desperate fight this forenoon to save the city’s water supply. Their weapons were sand bags and working in water over waist deep, they were piling tier on tier of bags on top of a coffer dam thrown up around the plant Saturday night. Did you know... Lincoln once was an island? CONTINUED u