Excerpt from | Oral History Interview with Larry and Betty Kelley, December 9, 1999. Interview K-0511. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) |
Larry Kelley thinks that the flooding was God's will but that its effects were exacerbated by human factors: greed created overdevelopment, which eliminated forests that could have slowed the flow of the floodwaters. Instead of forests absorbing the water, Interstate 40 channeled it straight into Larry's area.