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Notice the high flood marks on Spring Street near the Buckeye.

NOTE: March 2 update: Rick Skilliter, Bluffton police chief, has place preliminary estimates for the Feb. 28 flooding at $145,400.

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The clean-up phase of the Feb. 28 flood took center stage Tuesday. The village placed dumpsters on Cherry Street, Railroad Street and Riley Street as residents ripped up carpets and all sorts of ruined furniture and personal belongings, placing them in the dumpsters.

So far in 2011 we've experienced 34.3 inches of snowfall. But after a while, who's counting?

Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, released the February weather report. During the second month of the year we had 18.3 inches of snowfall. In January we had 16 inches.

Here are some additional figures:

Monday's flooding from the Main Street bridge looking toward the Buckeye

One thousand sand bags.

That's the number of bags created in advance and distributed throughout the village as a result of Monday's flood, according to Rick Skilliter, police chief.

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Pete Suter goes over final instructions Monday night on operating the Shannon Theatre's movies digitally

Pete and Kim Suter deserve an Oscar. The Icon may nominate them.

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The Suters made Bluffton movie history on Monday night: They successfully converted the Shannon Theatre from 35 mm film to digital projection. Until Monday night, every film ever shown in a Bluffton theater, going back to the Carma and Star Theater (the Star showed silent movies), were on film.

"It's the biggest change ever in the film industry," said Pete in an interview with The Icon.

12 a.m. Vance and Jefferson

Where do things stand at 2:30 p.m.?

Who would have predicted it? The Big and Little Riley offered a quick and devastating encore of its August 2007 flood only 3 1/2 years later.

The combination of a 6-inch-plus snowfall on Friday teamed with high temperatures over the weekend spell FLOOD in Bluffton.

Story filed at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 28.

As the Icon continues to provide information on the flooding in Bluffton we invite viewers with photo to e-mail them to [email protected].

The Icon has created a flood photo folder. Please identify the photographer and any people in your photos. Send them as jpgs 72 to 300 resolution.

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