White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-03-18
Angle Tells Of r.
Kentucky Floods
Former White Bluffs Mail Carrier
Almost Grew Fins in Ken
lucky Last Winter


from the National Rural Letter Car
rier, loaned to US by 8. j. OLarsy.
AS per your request, I will try to
write you some of my flood exper-
fences, First, I want to assure you
that I didn't have to run much pet
sonal risk. have not been in any
danger ais long as I drove straight.
in the middle Of the road. 1t Is
just a story of inconvenience and
perseverance.
My route lies in a triangle south
from Bowling Green, Kentucky, on
U. S. 3l-W, with various side trips
to the village OF WOODBURY. Is
miles; thence west and northwest.
over county roads in ddffereaat states
of repair or disreaair, until the route
intersects .U. s. 6B; thence 8 mites
to Bowling Green 44.3 miles alto
gether.
This route lies altogether, in a
valley dratned through sink holes,
into underground streams, The,
highest spot iregke whole district Il
serve is moi. 50 feet higtes- than the
lowest. The country Is mt hat and
s,l,ooth, a,pNeaer, but lr,oilangg; AZ
s'clioppy," you might aay, wttas In
f,ollows r,arnring IN 40 general q N
rection, but nacat taoilcxs
somewhere Il, thena, 4 aiaak tt,at, n
ordinary rainy A,ella takes caa,e Of.
the dsai1,agA very Wal -baat ttfas was
no ordinary rain. 5;s
After is more or less rssiTy days,
ssdartn
staaately als;s sll,ss
.fows naaxa biting up
it really tB rail- III ils ai
Sunday, Jan: 4 #. From n tsaea, On
until eAao1siay me 18th, it just
poured most OF Me time. The wea-
tiler bureau reEprSed about q iact,-
es, at Bowling, Green yof wt,inh a.
bout Is incdass fell during THE last:
seven days. .t:.. S...4s. H.
MY dtnle,ilti sa began sat,cut We'd
nesday. the 21th, Nheaa 4 began
having to, make dktcurs to get ~
round poaasis btlat were getting too.
deep Tor my rlpaith- ...a
ThursdasasI 4. .dyad ,trouisle getting
10. Bowling Greer, as 4. live at.
+. WOODBURY., having been transferred:
from thsrn w consolidation. On,
Fstday nora,ing it was too deep to-
drive through. II ttaasss dark 50 I left
my cav, pulled up my. high boots,
and Waded Through and caught a
ride from There IN leased my mails
:snd Ind the ssf6 VITO was carrying
already what ,could be. made o., two
other routes one II regular. ssoeasg sick
and the other on the WRONG sadeiof
the raver take Ne out witt my mail.
I waded through ahead of him In
one place to SHOW him IT was not,
too deep. for him to drive Through,
VIE delivered mall as we went
When we got to the water where j:
left my car, / took the mail for the
far sidsir my leather bag and, with
my slicker tail q Hing in the water,
wadeds back to my car TKe Sub
turned back' cut .ae,pss to, u. S. So,
and served from the water on. that
road back to toNn.s,l, went on and,
by fordins where ]. could or driv-~
ing miles around, nnaae full faHe1iv-
cry. !. iS.''isl n N;st,'i "
Friday night, it, grained hard all
night and it was impossible Tor me
to get to town, There were no trains
running by that timei however, so
there was very little mail except
;the1local daily paper. The sub con-
tinued to serve "wifat.s gould be servedi
of the three routes, which an10s,nted
to just few miles close ito town on
each of them, on Saturday
Monday, by making a Scircuitous
route over one Of the toughest rocky
y.3t L ~ s,s t,I,t2t e. y ,.s