Looks like the Tippecanoe River, near the Oakdale Dam and Delphi, is flooding again. It did so twice in 2008 and figures to do so again here in 2009. So far, it’s not as bad as it was last year, thankfully:

Water from the Tippecanoe River was flowing through the Oakdale Dam, which is just north of the homes that were being evacuated, at a rate greater than the flood flow rate of 13,000 cubic feet per second. Monday night, the flow was 14,350 cubic feet per second.

By comparison, in February 2008, the highest rate flowing through the Oakdale Dam was nearly 26,000 cubic feet per second.

Short term, it’s hard to know what to do for people who live in areas that are suddenly subjected to repeated flooding. (I say “suddenly,” but I guess I don’t know — seems like this frequency of flooding has to be relatively new, otherwise initial construction in these places seems unlikely.) Long term, people have to get out of these areas.