Yay! More Flooding!

[ArcticChicken]

Seriously, when did PA develop a monsoon season?

Trying to decide if I go to school today, the flooding hasn't taken out my train line, but it's taken out several near me. If the line goes down while I'm on the train, I'm stranded 'cause my cousin has the car at work, and if I do go in, I'm half expecting my professor not to show.

ETA: Yeah, not gonna risk it.

[Immortal1982]

I'm up in the scranton area, and the susquehanna at Wilkes Barre is expected to crest at Agnes levels.

For those who don't know. Agnes flooded the city in 1972 and left parts of the city underwater for weeks. The dike might hold but we wont know for hours as parts of the city have been evacuated.

The problem is the hurricane out at sea stalled the jet stream over the east coast. we're getting a stalled out system that we cant get rid of for another day or two and that hurts.

[FormerCallingCardRep]

We are in the same situation here in the Ohio Valley with what is left of TS Lee stalled out over us. They were saying that the hurricane that is off the coast is going to push it back to the west.

[LillFilly]

We got flooding where I am in PA; I took I don't know how many detours to pick up the BF, stalled in some deep water, and found my backyard was now a swamp and the water was seeping into the basement.

Oh, the backyard looks like a WWII reenactment took place due to all the trenches we dug!

[Bright_Star]

I haven't seen it this bad since Hurricane Agnes in 1972.

[ShadowBall]

I'm in Bradford County and the water went over the levy this morning. The people who live on the other side of it were told to GTFO, and my BF lives near there and up on a hill. He said the river is halfway up his street. All the major roads and all the bridges are closed because bloody everything is underwater.

I have not been able to see the damage, but I wonder if it's as bad as the flood we had back when I was in junior high. We were told if we got another really bad flood like that year, the main bridge into town would collapse. I wonder if that happened yet.

@Immortal1982: Ooo, I go to school in Scranton. Always interesting to hear from locals...I just wish it was under better circumstances.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I went to school in Elizabethtown, PA...saw these pics on Facebook yesterday (posted by a guy who was a year ahead of me and now works in the alumni office there): The lake is on campus and College Ave runs down the side of the campus past the lake.

Lake Placida

College Ave

So out of curiosity I googled Elizabethtown, PA flooding and found these (not sure what street this is but it is not on campus):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDYt...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEAeQ-3H62E

[Micer]

I heard they pushed the evac from 8 pm to 4 pm, so wondering how bad things are going to turn out (the '72 flood waters reached my grandmother's attic) otherwise my mom got my uncle and already got out of the Valley this afternoon.

I'm from the Wilkes-barre/Kingston area myself, still kinda glad I'm missing out on this.

[Amina516]

Im right in the middle of all this crazy. Peoples basements are now swimming pools, several people have died from driving or walking through the waters and getting swept away, several bridges and roadways have just been washed away. An 8yr old was pulled out of a storm drain... Its bad. I live in a majorish city here and we've been spared but you cant leave the city b/c you end up in all the places where no one can get to.

Entrance to the nearby Hershey Park...i assure you it doesnt normally look like that.

Also, a zoo here had to euthaize 2 buffalo that they couldnt move before the waters got to them.

A water plant: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

Its just bad. http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/new...er=accuweather

[Librarybabe]

...and in Binghamton, NY...

We had the highest recorded river (Susquehanna and Chenango) levels in recorded history. My University has two Red Cross shelters set up, accomodating over 3000 evacuees. Words simply don't describe the devistation.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Oh no! I have relatives out that way... must call Dad to call them...

[dragon_wings]

I'm in Baltimore, Maryland and it rained pretty much straight from Monday afternoon until this morning. There are areas flooded and streets washed out. Thankfully not in my immediate area.

[1756GR2]

Northumberland County here, at the forks of the Susquehanna. We had curfews and voluntary evacs yesterday, no roads or bridges out of town were accessible. Fortunately we have a river wall that served us well and kept over 10' of over-flood-stage river water out of town. The folks outside of town haven't fared as well. No loss of life, fortunately. Today was sunny, but at this moment we're in the middle of a very loud and lightning-filled thunderstorm dumping about 2" of water on us in the next hour. I compliment my sump pump regularly so it knows how very much I appreciate it.

We got a nasty scare, but you folks in Binghamton, Lewisburg, Pittston, Scranton, Hershey, Danville, Fort Washington area and others really got nailed. I have friends in all those places, was worried sick about them until cell towers cleared and people could start calling each other.

[Immortal1982]

Scranton and the mid valley got off somewhat easy, it was the where the lackawanna met the susquehanna that things got dicey.

[ShadowBall]

My old neighborhood got it pretty bad...the people who live right beside the levy more or less had their houses totally underwater, a neighboring town was under four feet of water yesterday, and a lot of people in that same area of town had water filling the first stories of their houses. Hell, the police threatened to arrest anyone who showed up in town to look at the damage.

Everyone is saying the same thing...there was no warning and no one had time to evacuate. All the bridges leading over the river into town are closed (shockingly, none of them collapsed), water is over the road in several places, and a lot of people are regretting having no flood insurance right now.

And it seems everyone had cabin fever the last couple days - no one could get into town no matter which way they drove, so everyone was walking into areas blocked off by cones to see, photograph and video-tape all the damage. Some people were out in their boats since they couldn't drive into town. Many people with cars felt they were too special for the blocked off roads and just drove around the signs and cones.

The river crested here at around 30 feet, I think. That's nearly twice the flood level. Where I live is kinda up on a hill, so the worst we got was all the rocks washed out of the diversion ditches alongside the road and the one in the backyard.