I had a text today from a dear friend who lives in Texas. She was very concerned about reports she had been seeing on the news concerning flooding and power outages in various parts of Indiana and wanted to know if my spouse and I were ok.
I assured her that we are fine and told her that we have been having rain but nothing excessive. I then went on to explain that bad weather like heavy rain or excessive snow (in the winter) often seems to bypass our area. It is not at all uncommon for Indianapolis, to our south, or South Bend to our north to get much heavier snowfalls than we do here in Fort Wayne. Granted, a lot of South Bend's snow is lake effect but that's not true for Indianapolis.
Fort Wayne is situated at the convergence of three rivers, the Maumee, the St. Joe and the St. Mary's. An old Indian legend states that tornadoes never strike where the three rivers come together and that has held true for all the years I have lived here (basically my whole life). When I was a child a twister (baby tornado) uprooted a large tree and blew a farm building off its foundation on our farm but that was 20 miles from Fort Wayne. More recently a tornado did a lot of damage to some farm buildings northeast of Fort Wayne, but again that was over 20 miles away.
So now I'm wondering if our three rivers location also protects us from heavy snows and flooding rains, at least most of the time? But only most of the time. We must not forget the blizzard of '78.
Just for fun, I thought you might like to see what Fort Wayne's flag looks like. Obviously, those three rivers are important to us.
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| Adopted | June 26, 1934 |
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| Designed by | Guy Drewett |
.svg)  Variant of the flag where the city's name and date are added to the flag. | |
The flag of Fort Wayne, Indiana was adopted as the city's official flag by City Council on June 26, 1934. The pall design includes two diagonal white stripes (from the bottom left and top left corners) converging in the circular center to form a horizontal white stripe. Red silhouettes of a Miami Native American head (center left), a French fleur-de-lis (top right), and a British lion (bottom right) grace a navy blue field. A red blockhouse is located at the center of the converging stripes. On some flag variants, the city's name and founding date are placed around the blockhouse, though this is uncommon.
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