Montgomery, PA
Photographer states: Our area in Pennsylvania has been experiencing record rainfall and wicked flash flooding along the Susquehanna River on both the North and the West Branch. Our town had flooding from the West Branch and Black Hole Creek. This photo was taken earlier in the day when Black Hole Creek had flooded this road in town. The water on the right hand of the photo is on the river side. I was taken by the lone sneaker just sitting upright on the sidewalk, as it came to a rest.
I believe two have died so far with this episode of flooding due to the arrival of Lee.
WILKES-BARRE -- Pennsylvania's lawmakers (click title to entry - thank you) in Washington are urging President Barack Obama to grant a request by Gov. Tom Corbett to declare parts of the state where flooding is taking place a federal disaster area.
In a joint letter to Obama released by U.S. Sens. Bob Casey and Pat Toomey, along with 12 U.S. Representatives Thursday evening, they said that communities up and down the Susquehanna River and along its tributaries are taking as much as action as possible ahead of feared flooding that has already forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents.
They're asking Obama to move quickly on Corbett's request which was made earlier Thursday.
Between 5 and 9 inches of rain fell in some parts of the state a little more than a week after the remnants of Hurricane Irene doused the East Coast. The soaking sent numerous waterways over their banks, including one northern Pennsylvania creek that undermined a bridge abutment, causing a partial collapse.
Luzerne County officials called for a mandatory evacuation of all communities along the Susquehanna River that were flooded in the historic Agnes deluge of 1972 -- an order affecting up to 75,000 residents. Officials in Harrisburg said they evacuated 6,000 to 10,000 residents from low-lying areas.
Rose Simko, 44, lives about 150 feet from the levee in Wilkes-Barre. On Thursday she was packing up her car and heading to stay with family on higher ground. Though worried her house will be inundated, Simko knew she had to leave.
"Everything is replaceable," she said, "but my life is not."...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Oneonta, New York
Photographer states:: Flash Flooding has hit the Oneonta, NY area in a way not seen since 2006 according to residents. This is the road to the high school that has been over run by water since early in the afternoon. An early dismissal occurred just in time. Classes on the SUNY Oneonta campus were canceled for today and that was before over an inch of rain fell overnight last night. And more in on the way
Oneonta, New York
Photographer states:: Flash Flooding has hit the Oneonta, NY area in a way not seen since 2006 according to residents. This is the road to the high school that has been over run by water since early in the afternoon. An early dismissal occurred just in time. Classes on the SUNY Oneonta campus were canceled for today and that was before over an inch of rain fell overnight last night. And more in on the way
BINGHAMTON — More than 20,000 people have been evacuated from the Binghamton area because of rising floodwaters, some of them in dramatic roof-top rescues.
State and Broome County officials stressed Thursday that the flooding was of "historical proportions" and residents in the floodwaters' path needed to get out immediately.
Scenes of devastation were occurring up and down the Susquehanna River watershed, where remnants of Tropical Storm Lee poured water on top of communities already soaked by the remnants of Irene. Hundreds of roads were closed and a total of more than 100,000 people were ordered to evacuate, most of them in the Binghamton area of New York and the Wilkes-Barre area of Pennsylvania....
The video is all telling.
September 8, 2011
Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Photographer states: Fetters Mill 9-8-11 morning
Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Photographer states: Fetters Mill 9-8-11 morning
