“It just kept getting louder, louder, and louder, and we started hearing the cracking of the trees as the water came through. I wasn't thinking of a dam breaking. I was just thinking a flash flood from sudden rain swell, but we were really shocked when we woke up and got outside, it was light, and saw what had really happened.”
“It went right up the side of that bluff and just cleaned the top of it off. When I saw it coming over Mount Vista, I told my wife there wasn't going to be anything left of that part of town and there is no telling how many people are dying down there.”
“The engineer from FEMA said this was the quickest recovery with such damage that he had ever seen. He expected it to take a year, but within three months, Van Buren had pretty much recovered from it.”
