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Flood Warning issued September 19 at 10:54AM EDT until September 20 at 6:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

...The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers...
St. Marys River at Rockford.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/iln.
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...St. Marys River at Rockford.
* WHEN...From this afternoon to Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...At 13.0 feet, State Route 117 near Route 118 north of Rockford is water-covered and closed.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 10:40 AM EDT Saturday the stage was 12.9 feet. - Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage this afternoon to a crest of 13.2 feet this evening. It will then fall below flood stage early tomorrow afternoon. - Flood stage is 13.0 feet.

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Photo by Laura Walker/The Daily Standard

Friday night 65 amphicars boated around the Lake Shore Drive area along Grand Lake. For the first time in recent years the fireworks boundary was moved to allow the cars more room to boat. The boundary is set for safety reasons, the larger the shells fired, the larger the boundary needed.

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A success despite heat

Hot, sultry and successful. Those were the words used by organizers to describe the 2006 Celina Lake Festival held this past weekend.

"We battled the weather," festival co-chair Michelle Emerine said this morning. [More]

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