 Flooding in US?
Hi All,
Read this and see the pictures. Does it look much different than our great cities where every monsoon it is the same story again and again and again!
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A day after a nexus of swollen rivers spilled their banks in some of the worst floods in the Mid-Atlantic region in decades, the waters slowly started to recede yesterday. But trouble did not go with them.
From upstate New York to Philadelphia, there were flooded homes and businesses, washed-out bridges, closed roadways, inundated streets and untold millions of dollars in damage. Most of that occurred along the twin paths of the Susquehanna and the Delaware Rivers, which overflowed for much of the day.
For people on the Delaware, in particular, canoes replaced cars, and homes were ruined yet again by high water for the third time in 21 months.
The devastation, however, was unequally divided. In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where nearly 200,000 people were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday night, the levees on the Susquehanna held, and the evacuation order was rescinded. Even so, 6,000 people remained in shelters yesterday, and parts of town were still so wet that striped bass were seen swimming on the streets.
On the other hand, almost 75 percent of Conklin, N.Y., near Binghamton, was under water as the Susquehanna there crested at almost 25 feet, 14 feet above its flood level. The waters rose above the mailboxes, and the air stank heavily of fish. A dead cow floated by.
Weather experts said the flooding was a combination of what they called a "striking rain event" — three to five inches of rain across entire states in just a few hours — and a steady buildup of rain over days. The storm system, which set records in some areas both for total rainfall and for flood levels, was the third in three years to cause extensive flooding in the two sprawling river basins.
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The pics here present the reality!
Thanks
Bala
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