The famous Mill in Clinton (my town). Closed due to flooding.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Hunterdon County in a state of emergency...and this is just the beginning. Here are some pics, articles, and thoughts on our flooding.
The famous Mill in Clinton (my town). Closed due to flooding.
Here is an article online about our area. The bold part is where I am.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area were ordered to evacuate their homes Wednesday because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, swelled by a record-breaking deluge that has killed at least 11 people across the Northeast.
Thousands more were ordered to leave their homes in New Jersey, New York and Maryland. Across the region, rescue helicopters plucked residents from rooftops as rivers and streams surged over their banks, washed out roads and bridges and cut off villages.
Wilkes-Barre, a northeastern Pennsylvania city that was devastated by flooding in 1972 by the remnants of Hurricane Agnes, is protected by levees. But county officials said the Susquehanna was expected to crest just a few feet from the tops of the 41-foot floodwalls.
Luzerne County Commissioner Todd Vonderheid said officials worried about the stability of the levees because the water was expected to press up against them for 48 hours.
"It is honestly precautionary," Vonderheid said. "We have great faith the levees are going to hold."
A dozen helicopters from the Pennsylvania National Guard, the state police and the Coast Guard were sent on search and rescue missions, plucking stranded residents from rooftops in Bloomsburg, Sayre and New Milford. Hundreds of National Guard personnel were preparing to distribute ice, water, and meals ready to eat.
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell declared a disaster emergency in 46 of the state's 67 counties.
Flooding closed many roads in the Philadelphia area, including the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Officials walked rafts through deep water to ferry children out of a tennis camp in Philadelphia.
The soaking weather was produced by a low-pressure system that has been stalled just offshore since the weekend and pumped moist tropical air northward along the East Coast.
The same system drenched Washington, D.C., on Sunday and Monday, closing the National Archives, the IRS, the Justice Department and other major government buildings in the nation's capital.
Binghamton, N.Y., received a record-breaking one-day total of 4.05 inches of rain on Tuesday. Although the bulk of the rain moved out of the area Wednesday, forecasters said more showers and occasional thunderstorms were possible along the East Coast for the rest of the week, and rivers and streams continued to rise from the runoff.
An estimated 2,200 people were ordered to evacuate an area surrounding Lake Needwood at Rockville, Md., which was approaching 25 feet above normal Wednesday. Engineers found weakened spots on the lake's earthen dam, said Bruce Romer, the county's chief administrative officer.
New York state officials said two truck drivers were killed early Wednesday when they drove into a 25-foot-deep chasm that a flooded creek had carved across all four lanes of Interstate 88, about 35 miles northeast of Binghamton.
Thousands of people were evacuated from communities across New York state, including hundreds in the Binghamton area. Whole villages north of Binghamton in rural Delaware County were isolated by high water.
Along the Delaware River, more than 1,000 people left low-lying areas of Trenton, N.J. New Jersey state workers in buildings along the Delaware prepared to leave work early. The debris-choked river caused the capital city's water filtration system to shut down. North of Trenton, motorists had to be rescued from their cars because of flash flooding.
In addition to the two deaths in New York, the weather was blamed for four deaths each in Maryland and Pennsylvania and one in Virginia.
The Agnes flood caused 50 deaths and more than $2 billion in damage in Pennsylvania, and remains the worst natural disaster in state history.
After Agnes left 20,000 families homeless in Wilkes-Barre and surrounding Luzerne County towns, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers undertook one of the most ambitious flood-control projects east of the Mississippi River, raising the existing levees by 3 to 5 feet.
The $200 million project was finally completed in 2003, three decades after it was proposed and nearly two decades after Congress authorized it.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area were ordered to evacuate their homes Wednesday because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, swelled by a record-breaking deluge that has killed at least 11 people across the Northeast.
Thousands more were ordered to leave their homes in New Jersey, New York and Maryland. Across the region, rescue helicopters plucked residents from rooftops as rivers and streams surged over their banks, washed out roads and bridges and cut off villages.
Wilkes-Barre, a northeastern Pennsylvania city that was devastated by flooding in 1972 by the remnants of Hurricane Agnes, is protected by levees. But county officials said the Susquehanna was expected to crest just a few feet from the tops of the 41-foot floodwalls.
Luzerne County Commissioner Todd Vonderheid said officials worried about the stability of the levees because the water was expected to press up against them for 48 hours.
"It is honestly precautionary," Vonderheid said. "We have great faith the levees are going to hold."
A dozen helicopters from the Pennsylvania National Guard, the state police and the Coast Guard were sent on search and rescue missions, plucking stranded residents from rooftops in Bloomsburg, Sayre and New Milford. Hundreds of National Guard personnel were preparing to distribute ice, water, and meals ready to eat.
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell declared a disaster emergency in 46 of the state's 67 counties.
Flooding closed many roads in the Philadelphia area, including the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Officials walked rafts through deep water to ferry children out of a tennis camp in Philadelphia.
The soaking weather was produced by a low-pressure system that has been stalled just offshore since the weekend and pumped moist tropical air northward along the East Coast.
The same system drenched Washington, D.C., on Sunday and Monday, closing the National Archives, the IRS, the Justice Department and other major government buildings in the nation's capital.
Binghamton, N.Y., received a record-breaking one-day total of 4.05 inches of rain on Tuesday. Although the bulk of the rain moved out of the area Wednesday, forecasters said more showers and occasional thunderstorms were possible along the East Coast for the rest of the week, and rivers and streams continued to rise from the runoff.
An estimated 2,200 people were ordered to evacuate an area surrounding Lake Needwood at Rockville, Md., which was approaching 25 feet above normal Wednesday. Engineers found weakened spots on the lake's earthen dam, said Bruce Romer, the county's chief administrative officer.
New York state officials said two truck drivers were killed early Wednesday when they drove into a 25-foot-deep chasm that a flooded creek had carved across all four lanes of Interstate 88, about 35 miles northeast of Binghamton.
Thousands of people were evacuated from communities across New York state, including hundreds in the Binghamton area. Whole villages north of Binghamton in rural Delaware County were isolated by high water.
Along the Delaware River, more than 1,000 people left low-lying areas of Trenton, N.J. New Jersey state workers in buildings along the Delaware prepared to leave work early. The debris-choked river caused the capital city's water filtration system to shut down. North of Trenton, motorists had to be rescued from their cars because of flash flooding.
In addition to the two deaths in New York, the weather was blamed for four deaths each in Maryland and Pennsylvania and one in Virginia.
The Agnes flood caused 50 deaths and more than $2 billion in damage in Pennsylvania, and remains the worst natural disaster in state history.
After Agnes left 20,000 families homeless in Wilkes-Barre and surrounding Luzerne County towns, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers undertook one of the most ambitious flood-control projects east of the Mississippi River, raising the existing levees by 3 to 5 feet.
The $200 million project was finally completed in 2003, three decades after it was proposed and nearly two decades after Congress authorized it.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
i had a great weekend with kristin. i drove down on friday to spend a few days with her and catch up. it was great...lots of fun. the highlight was going to church at the national cathedral. if you ever get the opportunity you should definitely try to attend a service. it is breathtaking! kristin and i also shopped (one of my favorite things to do!), ate yummy food, and caught up on each other's lives. good times!
hannah is gone this week. she is away at camp. so, it is just me and the rosie-girl at home. hannah will be back on friday.
it has been raining her a lot!! i hear it has been very hot at home. yikes - i would much rather be in heat then 100 degree weather!
i will try to post some pics for you soon. have a good day! xoxo
hannah is gone this week. she is away at camp. so, it is just me and the rosie-girl at home. hannah will be back on friday.
it has been raining her a lot!! i hear it has been very hot at home. yikes - i would much rather be in heat then 100 degree weather!
i will try to post some pics for you soon. have a good day! xoxo
Monday, June 19, 2006
wow, so much time has passed - again - since i have written an update. crazy! i have so much to tell you!
parents
my parents were here for a vacation last week. half the week we spent here on the east coast and the other half we spent in arkansas. it was nice spending time with them. you know, being single and being forced to be independent, i sometimes forget what it is like having family around. and then family comes around and i remember how nice it is! it was sad to see them go but i will be home in california aug. 20 - sept.4. that will be nice. anyway, we spent some time in langhorne, flemington and nyc. then we went and saw extended family down south. good times.
summer
i know that i once wrote a post about how busy i was going to be this summer. i was so excited about all the adventures and how quickly summer was going to pass for me. well, due to several reasons but mainly that of money, my summer plans have been greatly reduced. this, of course, is depressing but i am trying to make the best of it. if any of you want to come visit - now's the time!! i have lot's of availability in my schedule!
job
school here ends this friday. club (both yl and wl) have ended and now my work schedule has calmed down tremendously. it is actually kind of a nice break. anyway, tomorrow i am having a very important meeting with my committee chair. we are going to decide if ylwj can afford to keep on a staff person. if not, that means i am out of a job i love and feel called to (most days:)) and that totally breaks my heart! but, at the same time, i cannot stay in a position that has problems that we have seemed to have lately - and most of it is financial. anyway, please be praying for me. i need clarity!!
living arrangement
along with a possible new job (although i would see it as being temporary until i graduate in may) i also have another big life thing going on that i can't talk about just yet in this forum. but, it has me very sad and stressed out. call me and i'll give you details!
mom
my mom is having fairly major surgery today. wish i could be home to help. praying that all goes well!
parents
my parents were here for a vacation last week. half the week we spent here on the east coast and the other half we spent in arkansas. it was nice spending time with them. you know, being single and being forced to be independent, i sometimes forget what it is like having family around. and then family comes around and i remember how nice it is! it was sad to see them go but i will be home in california aug. 20 - sept.4. that will be nice. anyway, we spent some time in langhorne, flemington and nyc. then we went and saw extended family down south. good times.
summer
i know that i once wrote a post about how busy i was going to be this summer. i was so excited about all the adventures and how quickly summer was going to pass for me. well, due to several reasons but mainly that of money, my summer plans have been greatly reduced. this, of course, is depressing but i am trying to make the best of it. if any of you want to come visit - now's the time!! i have lot's of availability in my schedule!
job
school here ends this friday. club (both yl and wl) have ended and now my work schedule has calmed down tremendously. it is actually kind of a nice break. anyway, tomorrow i am having a very important meeting with my committee chair. we are going to decide if ylwj can afford to keep on a staff person. if not, that means i am out of a job i love and feel called to (most days:)) and that totally breaks my heart! but, at the same time, i cannot stay in a position that has problems that we have seemed to have lately - and most of it is financial. anyway, please be praying for me. i need clarity!!
living arrangement
along with a possible new job (although i would see it as being temporary until i graduate in may) i also have another big life thing going on that i can't talk about just yet in this forum. but, it has me very sad and stressed out. call me and i'll give you details!
mom
my mom is having fairly major surgery today. wish i could be home to help. praying that all goes well!
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