Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Hardin County floods


Photos by Mark M. Hancock / © The Beaumont Enterprise

Roxie, a 7-year-old rottweiler and German shepherd mix, protects the Ashworth residence in the Rose Hill Acres community on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006. The bayous and rivers flooded several Hardin County neighborhoods as the previous week's rains pushed south.


Don Ashworth (left) explains flood patterns to friends Wanda and Ellis Brumbeloe in the Rose Hill Acres community. The Brumbeloes brought stew for Ashworth when they heard about his house flooding.


Don Ashworth sloshes into his home in the Rose Hill Acres community. He placed his prized motorcycles safely on a trailer to protect them from the flood that took his garage.


A goose and duck paddle over Neel Avenue in a flooded neighborhood in the Artesian Acres community.


Lumberton residents Greg Lewis (left) and Bobby Sanders (right) check on friends on a flooded street in the Artesian Acres community.

The duck and goose were swimming through about six feet of water over a city street. My waders let me get into water about five feet deep. I was cool wading around chest high until I saw these hors d'oeuvres du gator.

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