Flood assessment begins Thursday as part of long clean-up process

Souvenirs of the previous week's flooding littered riverside communities after the Ohio River receded Wednesday night, and both businesses and local governments faced down the costly, time-consuming task of cleaning them up. Betsy Eicher, co-owner of Urban Grill, found the flood turned her Newtown restaurant's "perfect spot" into an island when the Little Miami River overflowed over the weekend. "The Little Miami came knocking at our door and came very close, but it didn't come into our parking lot," she said. The surrounding tide and subsequent traffic issues, however, led to customer confusion as would-be patrons struggled first to find out whether Urban Grill was open and then to reach it amid a tangle of closed-off roads.