RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
Posted: 9/26/2007
Anyone who has lived in the greater Dayton area for a few years probably knows that the sometimes empty --sometimes overflowing Carson River that runs from one end of central Lyon County to the other will wreak havoc on occasion.
That awareness is all too familiar to residents Linda Clements and her husband John Crowley. The couple knows first-hand how the Carson River can take everything you own and strew it for miles downstream. They were victims of the 1997 100-year flood of the Carson River.
When you talk to the couple they have total recollection as if the tragedy hit yesterday. They lived in a rental home down in the Harbor Road area --a neighborhood tucked along the Carson River and nestled among cottonwood trees off of U.S. 50. "At first it looked like we would be spared --then it (the river) took just about everything," said Linda Clements, adding that the family is still trying to recover from their loss a decade later.
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