GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — After a weekend of rising waters and flooding, the worst is over in metro Grand Rapids.
“All the scales and the gauges and projections, it’s almost as severe as 2013,” Jack Stewart, who’s in charge of Kent County Emergency Management, said.
He said about 100 people had to evacuate homes along Buck Creek in Wyoming because of the flooding.
The National Weather Service says the Grand River crested in downtown Grand Rapids Sunday afternoon at 20.67 feet, well above the flood stage of 18 feet. The record is 21.85 feet, set during the historic flood of April 2013. The river crested at 18.2 feet in Lowell and then 22.56 feet in Ada Saturday.
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