WAPAKONETA, Ohio (WLIO) — The Wapakoneta Fire Department was called out to help residents who were trapped by flood waters after heavy rain caused flooding at Lakeside Estates Mobile Home Park.
Over a 12-hour span from 7 p.m. Wednesday to 7 a.m. Thursday, around 2 inches of rain fell in the Wapakoneta area, causing flooding in a stream running through the mobile home park.
The flood waters cut off some residents from using the only road to leave the park.
The Wapakoneta Fire Department went door to door to check whether any of the 20 affected residents wanted to leave. The Auglaize CERT team was ready to provide temporary shelter for residents and their animals.
All of the residents decided to ride out the flooding.
Auglaize County Emergency Management Agency Director Troy Anderson says the constant rain over the past couple of weeks has contributed to flooding like this.
“I think this is like the fourth time we been down there, but it's been large amount of rainfalls, you know, when we started seeing 5 or 6 inches of rain in a night or over two nights, that's when we usually got that. So, it's been several years since we been down there. So, it was in a way surprising to see that we got this, what you're seeing coming through, but then when you start looking at every almost every day and and almost a half inch of rain each time coming through and that water shed pushing it, this was more like a flash flood than a an actual flood event,” says Troy Anderson, Auglaize County EMA Director.
Anderson says parts of eastern Auglaize County have received more than a foot of rain so far this summer.
