Frozen flood waters an unwelcome twist for Elkhart County homeowners

by Ed Ernstes (ernstes@wsbt.com)

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Homes along Indiana Avenue in Goshen surrounded by frozen flood waters

Homes along Indiana Avenue in Goshen are surrounded by flood waters again, but this time most of it has turned to ice. (WSBT photo)

By Beth Boehne

Story Created: Feb 7, 2008 at 4:00 PM EST

Story Updated: Feb 7, 2008 at 6:16 PM EST

ELKHART CO. — This cold weather is adding an unwelcome twist to flooding in Elkhart County.

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Many people there just recovered from the last round. They're now watching water again, this time as a frozen flood.

When Denise Hoke looked out from her home on DeCamp Avenue last month, she saw flood waters along the street. It flooded homes, yards and driveways.

Now it's much the same scene, except the new flood waters are frozen. About a dozen homes in the subdivision are landlocked by the ice in about a two block area.

"It’s just unreal,” she said. “This has been the worst year that I’ve ever seen and we just thought we were over it. We thought we just got done with all the January flooding and here we've got it back again and now with it being so cold it’s all completely ice."

Neighbor Joe Kohler is landlocked. He says it looks like a skating rink.

"Basically that’s what it looks like out there, except for that mailbox is just barely sticking out of the water!” he told WSBT News. “It's unusual. There's like 18 inches of water in the basement and we can't drive out the driveways."

In Goshen it was much the same. Homes along Indiana Avenue that were surrounded by water last month are surrounded by water again, but most of it has turned to ice.

“We thought with the first time, with the January flood, and then that was over and we thought now we're good until spring and here it is again,” Shauna Heeter said. “Now the water is frozen. We're still having water in our basement. Now we just have to wait for it to thaw out some more and have more water."

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