Gallatin Police Chief Mark Richards took this picture with the "dash cam" on his patrol vehicle a little after midnight n the morning of June 25.
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The area had received three to eight inches of rain that morning causing ditches to overflow and prompting the Police department with assistance from the Gallatin Area Fire Protection District to close off highway 13 between Richardson and Elm Streets. A man from Trenton drove his car into the water near the Gallatin car wash. The front of the car was buoyed up by the force of the stream and the front end was eventually swept into a ditch by the steadily rising flood. Chief Richards describes the city street as a solid river at that time. When he got out to assist, the water was up to his knees in the middle of Highway 13. The driver was able to get out of the car and was not injured. Both Hwy. 13 in town and Hwy. 6 east and west of Gallatin were closed at times to traffic due to the flooding until the waters subsided.