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Bizarre Flooding Continues in Bellevue, Ohio

April 21, 2008

Beautiful weather, no river, no stream and yet hundreds of residents are flooded here.

No sudden thunderstorms or drenching rains can explain it. For some reason, the earth in Bellevue continues to heave up millions of gallons of water to the surface.

Against gravity and against logic, the flooding continues day after day. Homes and barns suddenly turned into islands trapped in muddy water.

No one knows why it began or when it will end. It is a disaster for every homeowner for miles around Bellevue. The residents north of town on state route 269 have especially been hit hard.

Mike Willis and his wife, Deb, are exhausted from battling the flood waters in their home.

“It’s been 24/ 7 of filling the pumps with gasoline every two hours,” Willis said. “It’s been our worst nightmare.”

A few hundred yards down the road, Lenora Adams has a stack of sandbags around her house.

“Right now it’s like we’re just maintaining,” Adams said. “There is not much else we can do but keep fighting.”

Neighbors need boots just to walk next door. The sump pumps in many basements are barely staying ahead of the upwelling flood waters.

Dean Instone has already lost the battle. The wooden stairs to his basement are now floating in six feet of water. Dean and his wife have been forced to live with family members in Bowling Green, Ohio. He returns every day to check on his home.

“It’s not good,” Instone said. “It’s been really tough for my wife. She’s in bad shape.

“I’m waiting for my basement walls to collapse any day now.”

Neighbors have volunteered the use of heavy equipment to try and dig a channel in the backyard fields that have become muddy lakes. So far, nothing has worked.

Because there are no lakes, rivers or streams nearby, none of the residents have flood insurance.

Scientists believe that underground artesian springs in the area normally drain toward Sandusky Bay and Lake Erie. There are large artesian springs at Miller’s Pond, Green Spring, and Castalia, Ohio.

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