1973 Enid Flood Photo
This is a great old newspaper photo detailing the 1973 Enid flood. This aerial picture shows St. Mary's and the surrounding area.
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The memories flood back, while observing this photo. Sitting in my Grandmothers house, watching out of her picture window, the cars floating by, down the street. While wading around 'in' her house in 2 1/2 feet of water.
I worked at St. Mary's Hospital as a Transcribing Clerk at that time and so happened I was a patient, as well, on the day of the flood. I was sitting in the employee lounge with my co-workers, 3 Main, talking and looking out the window on the creek-side when amazingly I took notice of the creek and the water appearing to rise closer and closer to the bridge that crossed over to the larger parking lot area. As I stood there, water began to spill out of the creek into the parking lots. I stood at the window in shock really. I began to see cars float in the water. I shouted to my co-workers to come look at what was happening...they too, were astonished. I left the lounge and walked to an area where I could see the front area and street. Water was roaring and washing cars toward the park area at East Okla. Street. Scared, a patient, and a employee of St. Mary's, I walked to another area where I looked out and could see the Nuns Convent that sat on the East Okla. Street side of the hospital and yet in the rear area of the hospital itself. I am 5'3" in height and that door was taller than me and the water was well over it. The water was whishing so violently and to look out after awhile it looked as if the hospital was sitting in an ocean being battered by waves. It was scary. I was told by a co-worker that the hospital's basement area had filled up with water and that the first floor had taken on water. They asked the hospital guest & patients if they were smoking to put out their cigarettes in case there was a gas leakage somewhere. From what I could see and hear, people in the hospital itself was really quiet and cooperative. Also, when I looked out of the lounge window on 3M I could see people with flashlights that were shining their lights from the higher elevation of East Okla. St. and East Cherokee St. Personally, my aunt and her husband stayed there on East Okla. Stree...632....and she was keeping my children while I was in the hospital at that time....even she said that was quite an ordeal to look down the street to see all the water and St. Mary's sitting in the middle of it all. I finally went to my room and went to bed around 3:00 a.m. Thank God there was a day after. I will never forget the "1973 Enid flood"....what an experience!
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