Flooded! Topeka in the 1951 Flood

On July 12 of 1951 the Kansas River rose 36 feet making it one of the worst floods in Kansas history. Great Overland Station was flooded with eight feet of water and North Topeka was changed forever. This is a sit down program at Great Overland Station and it explores this historic event, the people it affected and how the state and federal government rose to the challenge to ensure a flood of that scale would not happen again.