Flood waters continued to recede slowly in and around Seymour after cresting on Sunday afternoon at 19.8 feet — third highest in city history.
Mayor Matt Nicholson said nobody in Seymour was displaced due to the flood, though the waters came close to a new housing development.
“We’ve got a newer house that was built right at the edge of one of our housing additions,” he said. “The driveway, I would imagine once the water goes down, is probably gone at this point. But I don’t believe the house ended up with any water inside of it, so that’s a positive.”
Other areas in Jackson County weren’t so lucky. The Brownstown Swift Water Rescue team evacuated a family of 10 whose home was surrounded by water.
Later that day, the rescue unit rescued a man whose kayak capsized near Seymour.
And in Medora, located southwest of Brownstown, about 12 homes on South Mill Street were surrounded by water Tuesday afternoon.
“Myself and DPW director Chad Dixon went down there on Friday night, dropped off five or six pallets of sandbags, trying to make sure that anybody down there that would need them had access right there in their community instead of a 30-, 40-minute drive up here to Seymour,” Nicholson said.
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