When we moved to Hennessey in 1978 I had no idea about the flooding issues in Kingfisher County.

Soon I learned on the way to a meeting in OKC that North Main Street in Kingfisher had flooding issues.

When I complained to my husband, Bill, about having to backtrack he told me about the May 1957 flood in Dover.

He was a J-school student at OU when his dad, Art, called him to come up and take flood pictures for The Clipper.

They rode in his Dad’s fishing boat and Bill said he got some great photos.

It was during our first few years in Hennessey when flooding problems hit home.

It was after an all-nighter from putting the paper to bed.

That’s when our street was flooded. My husband, son and I walked through seven or eight of our neighbors’ front yards to get to our house.

That was also when we saw my car which was parked on the street.

In my mind’s eyes now I wonder if it was bobbing up and down in the water, but I know it wasn’t.

It had been parked streetside because we’d earlier had two other vehicles parked in our driveway: The Clipper station wagon, and my husband’s state car because he still had his paying job back then.

That was also when I was covering the Hennessey town board meetings upstairs at the then-Memorial Hall.

Before the meeting started I told a couple of board members about flooding issues on East 5th Street and asked what could be done.

“Everyone knows that 4th and 5th streets off Mitchell Road flood,” a board member told me.

“That wasn’t in the sales pitch when we bought the house,” I told him in what my Mother always called me being A Smart Aleck.

Another board member chimed in and said it was the fault of the developer in the housing addition, and the engineer and the planning board and past town boards, etc.

I just wanted something done about the problem, but it didn’t happen.

Then over the years the kids in our neighborhood went swimming on street pond.

We’ve had guys and gals who want to show they could drive through that flood water. Some made it, some didn’t.