Sanford marks first anniversary of flood, ‘one of the worst things I have lived through and also the best’
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Maybe there isn’t one.
“When I look back on it, I see, probably, the worst, one of the worst, things I have lived through and also the best, if that can make any sense at all,” said the Sanford resident and small business owner. “I just feel, I don’t know, like that. Whatever that name of that feeling is that I can’t quantify.”
When floodwaters swept through Merillat’s hometown of Sanford last May, some of the places she cared about most her house, her parents’ house and her new business, Three Diamonds Bridal Boutique were all damaged.
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MIDLAND, Mich. One year ago, heavy rains caused the Edenville Dam near Sanford, Mich. to fail. That sent water rushing out of Wixom Lake downstream to the Sanford Dam, located a street away from downtown Sanford. That dam also failed, crippling the town. The heavy floodwater destroyed many homes and businesses.
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This week marks the one-year anniversary of the flood that swept through many mid-Michigan communities.
Many of the victims are involved in lawsuits against the state and Boyce Entities, who controlled the Edenville and Sanford Dams when they failed in May of last year. I had my pencil in my pocket and whatever I had on me and we went out, said Carl Hamann, resident.
A pencil is all Hamann had when he walked away from his home after watching water from the Sanford Dam failure rush towards him. If we wouldn t have left, we both would have died. Because the water level came up so fast that water was coming down at about 45 miles per hour, Hamann said.