We're getting flood-sacked

[jr/shotglass]

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.

 

[Stitch]

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

 

[PCLoadLetter]

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

 

[jr/shotglass]

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

Yeah, time to make their way up toward campus.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

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

 

[joe_schmoe]

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

East coast media bias.

 

[jr/shotglass]

That's because

 

[jr/shotglass]

I post-pad

 

[jr/shotglass]

about the East coast.

 

[wicked]

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

 

[jr/shotglass]

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

 

[farmerjerome]

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.

 

[jr/shotglass]

There's a little town just north of Route 30 between Lancaster and York, Marietta. It's along the river.

That's at 57 feet, and will crest at 61.

Gulp.

 

[wicked]

Spent too many days driving along 441 up that way to know that quite a few people are screwed.

 

[dixiehack]

Worries now that US 322 may have to be closed between Harrisburg and State College, just in time for a big Penn St home weekend.

 

[wicked]

If that happens, it'll be fun seeing RVs try to navigate the back roads and PA 26 to get into State College.

 

[jr/shotglass]

The beat guys are talking about taking the Turnpike out to Altoona and coming up 99.

That is known as the Great Circle Route.

And that, of course, is assuming the ol' Green Stamp is open. It's closed between Reading and Harrisburg right now.

 

[wicked]

I always liked the drive up 26. And few people seemed to use it on game weekends because it was so out of the way.

 

[slappy4428]

Worries now that US 322 may have to be closed between Harrisburg and State College, just in time for a big Penn St home weekend.

Who they playin?

 

[jr/shotglass]

The Bear just coughed at you from the great yonder.