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WEST VIRGINIA 1937
It is Wheeling, West Virginia, not Venice, and that is a rowboat, not a gondola. As was the
case in Pittsburgh, residents of Wheeling would find the flood of January 1937 no match for
the record-setter of March 1936. That is not to say it was not damaging. Rising two inches an
hour toward a crest of nearly 47 feet, the floodwaters soon covered much of the city. Once
again, Wheeling Island was submerged, and authorities ordered its 10,000 inhabitants evac-
uated.
