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Published: August 19, 2008
Kingfisher officials working to end town's flooding image
Disaster: Residents are rebuilding after destruction in August 2007
Rain's effects felt a year later.
Disaster: Residents are rebuilding after destruction in August 2007
Rain's effects felt a year later.
KINGFISHER — Leroy Krittenbrink said he still can't believe he made it out of the rushing floodwaters alive.
A year ago today, Krittenbrink, 73, and his wife, Bernice, 67, were caught in a pickup that was swept off a rural road by a wall of water.
As the Krittenbrinks' pickup bobbed and floated across flooded fields, the couple talked by cell phone to a dispatcher and then were spotted by a helicopter flow...
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