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We're getting flood-sacked

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by jr/shotglass, Sep 8, 2011.

  1. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    The Susquehanna River is expected to crest at 29 feet tomorrow, and they're evacuating the front three blocks of Harrisburg. In fact, they're not allowing people in and out of the city right now.

    http://topics.pennlive.com/tag/flooding/posts.html

    Sad thing: At Hersheypark, they had to euthanize (read: shoot) two bison that were trapped in the flood waters and about to drown.

    http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/09/2_zooamerica_bison_drowning_in.html

    FWIW, we're a good 15 miles away. My daughter and her fiancee, though, are bringing their cats and coming down. They're being evacuated in New Cumberland, directly across the river from the 'Burg.
     
  2. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Just minor flooding where I'm at, but Wilkes-Barre and Bloomsburg are getting hit with it.
     
  3. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    I have family on the river in Lewisburg. I assume they are closer to in the river right now.
     
  4. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Yeah, time to make their way up toward campus.
     
  5. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    I have heard many stories about the flood of '72 in the Genesee Valley. Bears more than a few similarities to this.
     
  6. joe_schmoe

    joe_schmoe Active Member

    The folder on the Texas Wildfires needed six hours to get as many posts as this one.

    East coast media bias.
     
  7. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    That's because
     
  8. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I post-pad
     
  9. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    about the East coast.
     
  10. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Is it as bad as Agnes yet? That wiped out a few towns (Steelton among them).
     
  11. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    No. Agnes crested at 32 feet. This one is to reach 29 feet in the wee hours of Saturday morning.
     
  12. farmerjerome

    farmerjerome Active Member

    My uncle and counsins live in York and the surrounding areas. I think I'll give them a call tomorrow.

    One of my cousins facebooked me today and said it hasn't stopped raining since Labor Day.
     
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