Quote Originally Posted by Roughneck View Post
I lived at Hollis in 1982. The water got above the pavement on the South Fourche bridge. Harley Crain tried to cross it on foot but the water was too high, he had to wait till it went down a little. A man from the AGC told me that according to their measurements that the 1982 flood only happens once every 500 years or so. We had 19 inches of rain in 24 hours.
I know there was huge culverts washed out all over the mountains the next spring when we went Turkey Hunting ! Some roads were just gone in places and left holes big enough to drop a good size house in .