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Gallery: Scioto County flooding

Curtis Botkins, his son Levi Botkins, and his girlfriend Kara Kinstler stand outside of Curtis's mother's home Disterdick Lane in Franklin Furnace that was destroyed by a flash flood during Tuesday's storm. Curtis Botkins and several of his family members including his mother, Barbara Botkins, were in inside when the flashflood swept through their home forcing the family outside fighting to survive. Barbara Botkins was swept away in the floodwaters. Rescuers found her body at 3:56 a.m. on Wednesday.

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July 21, 2010 @ 06:03 PM

High waters in Scioto County, Ohio, claimed the life of one person and caused major damage.

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Curtis Botkins, his son Levi Botkins, and his girlfriend Kara Kinstler stand outside of Curtis's mother's home Disterdick Lane in Franklin Furnace that was destroyed by a flash flood during Tuesday's storm. Curtis Botkins and several of his family members including his mother, Barbara Botkins, were in inside when the flashflood swept through their home forcing the family outside fighting to survive. Barbara Botkins was swept away in the floodwaters. Rescuers found her body at 3:56 a.m. on Wednesday.

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Barbara Botkins' home on Disterdick Lane in Franklin Furnace was destroyed by a flashflood during Tuesday's storm. Botkins was swept away in the floodwaters. Rescuers found her body at 3:56 a.m. on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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A community comes together to help the family of Barbara Botkins salvage their belongings after a Tuesday's flash flood took Barbara's life and destroyed her home on Disterdick Lane in Franklin Furnace. Several of Botkins family members were in inside when the flash flood swept through the home forcing the family outside fighting to survive. Barbara Botkins was swept away in the floodwaters. Rescuers found her body at 3:56 a.m. on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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Barbara Botkins' home on Disterdick Lane in Franklin Furnace was destroyed by a flashflood during Tuesday's storm. Botkins was swept away in the floodwaters. Rescuers found her body at 3:56 a.m. on Wednesday.

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Barbara Botkins' home on Disterdick Lane in Franklin Furnace was destroyed by a flashflood during Tuesday's storm. Botkins was swept away in the floodwaters. Rescuers found her body at 3:56 a.m. on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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Barbara Botkins' home on Disterdick Lane in Franklin Furnace was destroyed by a flash flood during Tuesday's storm. Botkins was swept away in the floodwaters. Rescuers found her body at 3:56 a.m. on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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Barbara Botkins' home on Disterdick Lane in Franklin Furnace was destroyed by a flash flood during Tuesday's storm. Botkins was swept away in the floodwaters. Rescuers found her body at 3:56 a.m. on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

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The belongings of Barbara Botkins and her family fill the muddy back yard of their Franklin Furnace home that was destroyed by a flash flood during Tuesday's storm. Botkins was swept away in the floodwaters. Rescuers found her body at 3:56 a.m. on Wednesday.

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Assistant youth minister Kyle Stormes poses for a photo Wednesday, July 21, 2010, outside of Ohio Furnace Enterprise Baptist Church where bottles of have been donated by Haverhill North Coke Plant and Green Elementary School for the flood victims in the Franklin Furnace area.

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