Flooded Park
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Kentucky was hit with torrential rain in early April 2025. The Ohio River near downtown Louisville officially crested at 36.63 feet, which is the eigth-highest crest on record. The modern flood benchmark was set in March 1997, and this flood crested two feet shy of that flood. The legendary 1937 flood was still 15 feet higher, but due to the levees and pumps constructed since then, it's unlikely that any flood will ever crest that high again barring apocalyptic events.[1]
One fork of Beargrass Creek, whose drainage basin is one of the largest in Jefferson County, passes through Brown Park. And with this much rain, it flooded. The city prepped barricades for road closures (visible in the backgrounds of some gallery photos), but the water level was just barely low enough that they were unneeded.
I took the flood photos the evening of April 4th, and I returned April 9th to take followup photos after the water receded. I wish I could have taken more pictures, but I didn't have appropriate shoes to ford the paths or trudge through the grass.
The geese seemed to love it, though:
