A river town that has always lived with the water
Newburgh grew up as an Ohio River port from its 1803 founding, with steamboats loading tobacco, grain, pork, and coal at Water Street warehouses by 1850. That same river frontage that built Newburgh's economy is the reason river-proximate homes and businesses need a real water-damage plan, not just a mop and a fan, when the Ohio rises.
What river-adjacent construction means after a water event
Newburgh's oldest structures sit close to the water by design -- that was the whole point of a 19th-century river port -- which means older framing, older masonry, and decades of prior moisture exposure are often already part of the picture before a new flood or storm event even happens. Structural drying and cleanup here has to account for that history, not just the most recent water.