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Last updated on Wednesday, April 8, 2015
(PINE VALLEY) - Pine Valley Community residents in Orange County were evacuated from their homes following a flash flood Tuesday morning
According to Orange County Rural District II Volunteer Fire Department Chief Bill Sallee, the evacuation began around 9 a.m. Residents south of Pine Valley on West County Road 675 South had to be evacuated.
Rob Andis, who owns Andis Logging located a mile south of the intersection of Ind. 37 and County Road 675 South, was among those affected as water flowed from Hogs Defeat Creek into his logging yard.
More than $8,000 worth of cedar logs floated down river.
Hogs Defeat empties into the Patoka River just south of the logging yard.
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