Heavy overnight rains reaching 11 inches caused widespread flooding Aug. 28. Pictured here is Garden Street in Ontario. (As it becomes available, flooding information will be updated on this page.)

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Long ago, I was in the second grade at the Mount Pisgah one-room country school. Mr. Seaman was the teacher.

Many, many years ago, when I was but a callow youth, a mere stripling, I often heard the old folks talk of high water. Sometimes they would mention the word “flood,” but more often, they just called it “high water.”

March on the farm was lambing time, and nothing brought new lambs faster than a March blizzard.