Spent a wonderful New Year's night listening to Dad and my aunt Hank reminisce about their childhoods in Huntington, WV. They devoted considerable time to their memories of the 1937 Ohio River flood. Dad was 12 and Hank was 6 at the time. They climbed out a 2nd story window into a boat, were rowed to the train tracks, and from there were evacuated to Milton, WV. Nannie and Hank rode in the passenger cars with the other women and young children. Dad and his brothers, along with countless other men and older boys, climbed down into coal cars for the journey.

Came home and have been doing a little research about the flood. It was (and remains,) the highest flood of the Ohio in recorded history. In many places it took 3 weeks for the waters to recede. 1,000,000 people from Pittsburgh, PA to Cairo, ILL were made refugees and rendered homeless. 385 people died. Figured in today's dollars, it may be the most expensive natural disaster in the history of the USA.

Is anyone aware of any songs that were written about, or related to that mighty flood? Seems like the experience and the scale ought to have inspired at least a few.

(I know about Joe Dobbs' band, The 1937 Flood.)