Some
people in Allandale to this day get very anxious when there is a hard
rain. I am referring to those hit by the Memorial Day Flood that roared
down on the city and brought death and destruction along Shoal Creek on
a Sunday night, May 24, 1981. It turned stretches of Shoal Creek and
Lamar into a river. On Bullard Drive, where homes back up to the creek,
the water flowed down the street and into the homes from all sides.
The image above is the front page of the Austin American-Statesman from
the Tuesday morning edition. The headline from the newspaper the
morning after the flood only reported 9 deaths.
What follows are the stories from residents in Allandale who shared their experiences of the 1981 flood with the "Allandale Neighbor." The Flood changed the neighborhood. It is a night no one living near Shoal Creek at the time will forget.
Thanks
to everyone who submitted their story and contributed their clippings
and photos. If you would like share your story, please email it to
allandalereporter@yahoo.com or leave it as a comment to this article.
Tom Linehan
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