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Flood Advisory issued September 5 at 10:03AM EDT until September 5 at 12:45PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...Western Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Mercer County in west central Ohio... North Central Shelby County in west central Ohio...
* WHEN...Until 1245 PM EDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 1003 AM EDT, radar and automated rain gauges indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2.5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible. - Some locations that may experience flooding include... Celina, St. Marys, Coldwater, New Bremen, Minster, St. Henry, Rockford, New Knoxville, Wabash, Mendon, Chickasaw, Montezuma, Tama, Neptune, Carthagena, Bulkhead, Maria Stein, State Route 116 at State Route 197 and Chattanooga.

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Photo by Margie Wuebker/The Daily Standard

Celina Police Chief Dave Slusser sorts through old files and other documents retrieved earlier this week from a storage area at the municipal building. Boxes containing the items, some dating back to the 1940s and 1950s, had to be removed so workmen could reach a broken water pipe.

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Celina Police Chief Dave Slusser sat in the lobby of the city building surrounded by stacks of boxes containing handwritten logs, parking meter citations and other relics from the past. [More]

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