Well, I'm not sure how many of you in the US have actually heard about this apart from the states listed..but here in the Mid-Northeastern part of the United States we got hit really bad by a severe rainstorm. It caused the Schuykill river here in PA to overflow and many parts of Reading (where I live) are under more than 10 feet of water. Infact, Penske's Racing headquarters (which ironically was getting ready to move down to North Carolina) suffered a lot of flooding, and at this time its safe to assume a lot of damages as well. But of course, PA wasnt the only place hit bad. Certain parts of NJ, DE and NY were hit bad too..so if you got pics of the flooding, certainly feel free to post away! And just to think, if PA didn't have the Blue Marsh Dam..Reading would've been..for lack of a better word...fucked. This flooding happened about 5 mins from where I live, on the first day of the flooding: 1 2 3 With the last one. That guy actually just pulled up and realized how fucked he was when I took that.
Reading got nothing compared to up here. Half the towns in the valley are completely underwater, and the water level hit 38 feet. The record was 41 feet in 1972 when Hurricaine Agnes turned us into what New Orleans was. EDIT: These were pictures I took a little while ago, after the water had already dropped 5 feet. http://kings.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003325&l=ea1f6&id=60402084
You guys can blame my sister. In August 2001, she moved to NYC for underegraduate college. 9/11 happened. In August 2005, she moved to New Orleans for law school. Katrina happened. In May 2006, she moved to Washington DC for a summer internship. The flooding happened. Disaster follows her around
CNN was reporting live from my city last night and they reported at the levee right across the street from my apartment, so when I saw that I figured it'd all be ok. The water double crested, once at around 10:00pm and another at 2:00am.
I was surprised we didn't get flooded as much looking at all of the rain going down and such since I live like an hour away from MD (If you look at the bottom middle part of PA, I live in the pointy county )
The lower portions of Delaware got it badly, especially Seaford, DE. They got it the worst in Delaware. Roads and homes were washed away and people were left without power. I live in the middle portion of Delaware real close to the coast and we had some minor flooding and some trees down, but nothing compared to what PA, MD and lower DE got. I was worried for a while because there is a small bridge to cross over to get to my house and I really thought the water from the river under it was going to rise and flood the bridge. The water did rise, but not enough to flood the bridge. Thank goodness. If it did, it would've looked like the last pic in Derek's post. Wal-Mart parking lot in Seaford, DE: I find this so weird because Delaware never gets anything like this.
Well speaking of bridges Andrea, I have another few pics (they all got really blurry) but this old bridge by my house was completely overflowed with nothing but the sides of the bridge showing. You cant really tell by these pics, but basically everything that's brown there is water. And although you have to squint..the stone structures are the bridge (yes I took these with a camera phone which doesnt like zoom).
I didn't realize it was happening outside of New York. All I've really read/heard about was Schenectady since it is so close to me. The Mohawk river was flooding everything around there. People have had to evacuate their homes but the water level definitely is not anywhere near 38 feet.
Well...when you compare the overhead shot of reading in 2006 to the shot of it after agnes in 1972 there shockingly aint much of a difference. Reading got hit ALMOST as hard as it was hit by Agnes.
Like I said before, this is what you all get for purchasing a Hummer H2. Big car's won't get you a bigger penis, just a shit load of water.
Holland in 1953 http://www.debesteradio.nl/images/watersnoodramp_copy.jpg http://proto4.thinkquest.nl/~lld530/NL/1280x1024/Afbeeldingen/Waterbeheer/1953.jpg http://proto4.thinkquest.nl/~lld530/NL/1280x1024/Afbeeldingen/Waterbeheer/Watersnoodramp.jpg my grandparents had to sit on the roof for a couple days because they were surrounded with water. The water raise about 2 to 3 meters above the ground. 1835 people drowned and about 35.000 cows, horses and pigs drowned. Over 200.000 hectares (??) of land were flooded. so thats nothing
I live in Bethlehem, PA. It wasn't too bad here, some roads here and there, but I live up the street from the Lehigh River and the Monocacy Creek, and thank God neither of those rivers came over, though they were really high. When Ivan came rolling through in 2004, the Monocacy came over a flooded out half of downtown Bethlehem. Easton got hit pretty hard again, especially right there at the Free Bridge that goes to Jersey. My workplace has a development over near there on top of the hill called the Highlands, and it's all under water now (well, not the development, but everything down the hill). It's odd, cause it was only a couple weeks ago that I was up in that area working, and now it's all under water again. Everything in Allentown and Bethlehem has calmed, but Easton, Reading, Berks, etc. are pretty much considered disaster areas. All these floods are happening all of a sudden. Before 2004, the only really bad flood we had in the Valley was the one in 1955, and now 3 in the last 4 years? Damn. In fact, here's a picture of the road that leads up to where I sometimes work. Well, what was the road. I should say, "heres the water...". This picture is about 3 minutes from the housing development I was talking about. The water got worse than this though. Before it started to go down, the water was just below the roof of the McDonalds. It's weird, because most people (like me) are highly interested when things like this happen because it's all new to everyone because it's never happened before, atleast not this bad.
Man, that's bad. I remember seeing pictures from farmers standing on their roof with all their cows,pigs... everything. Holland isn't really a good country to live when it comes to floods or global warming. ____ Were you guys warned in advance by your gouverment or was it one big surpise ?