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Chief Paduke looks mournfully over his submerged city from his stone seat in front of the
U.S. Post Office in Paducah. Only the town's tiny Avondale Heights neighborhood—just a
fraction of Paducah's total area—stood high enough to escape the flooding. In most of the
residential areas, nothing was visible above the top of the floodwaters except the roofs and
upper stories of houses and utility poles. In the downtown, virtually every building was
flooded.
