Tuesday marks 70 years since historic 1951 flooding disaster

Today marks 70 years since the Great Flood of 1951 in Kansas City, a natural disaster that changed the landscape of the metro forever.

[@youarepredictable]

My dad was growing up on the West Side, just off SW Boulevard when this flood happened. He has talked many times about the smell of the dead pigs and cattle from the nearby meat packing and processing plants. He also recalled some fuel tanks that were anchored down but floated away in the water and would come in contact with power lines and you could hear explosions from time to time when they did. Their house was on the corner of 29th and Mercier, just to the East of the boulevard which is a bit up hill a higher elevation. He said they were lucky because the high water mark stopped just on the curb at the corner of 29th and Mercier(this was before I-35 cut the neighborhood in half) and only a few feet from their house.

[@martincastro8856]

I was 8 yrs old living in Armourdale Ks ,at 4th and Ks ave it was a wonderful place to live for kid of mexican parents ,my mom stayed home ,my father worked at Armours packing house we had one of the first t v s in our block most of family and friends lived within walking distance.A utopia for a kid, was woke up around 1 in the morning ,we were loaded on to big army trucks to escape food waters of the Kaw river and taken to Argentne H S gym ,where we stayed til it was safe to return . we went back once there was nothing to salvage the house had caved in there was mud and foul smelling water in the basement. the garage in the back ,where my father kept his rabbits,chickens and goats was gone, My father was crushed he was 54 yrs old imagine starting over at that age with family of 7 kids . with in 2 years my parents separated, we were put in a home for kids in Topeka,Ks Yes i remember the flood 1951.

[@RealLukaDoncic]

Damn 😢

[@jperez9528]

For what it's worth if it makes you feel any better while doing Time Travel research on July 23, 2023 (God fed me the parameters of being my 16 year old self *in reality I wasn't born till many decades later* in 1951 Kansas City, MO on July 23, 1951 -UTC) and I had never heard of the 1951 Flood until I started looking up KC, MO and 1951 to figure out what could be so interesting about that place that of all the places and times spanning two generations of my own family God would send me there... 🤔🧐

[@theojohnson7883]

wyandotte county is kansas not missouri 🤦🏽‍♂️