Flood 06

Pennsylvania is wet, y'all. Just about all of it got some damage from the rain, in the form of road closings, washouts, and mostly flooding. A lot of areas have been evacuated. The northeastern part of the state seems to have been hit the hardest; we're just on the edge between NEPA and the central valley region. Below are some photos I took today of our region.

This used to be someone's enclosed porch, judging by the lamp and the ceiling fan.

Sign O' The Day!

The Twin Bridges were recently restored. The hubby and I have been across this set of covered bridges and fished just above them. This is all I could find of the west-side bridge.

East Paden Twin Bridge and the foundation of the now-gone West bridge.

The Susquehanna River invades Bloomsburg.

One of many.

Talk about an opportunist! :-)

Tree down on power lines over flooded road = not good.

Used to be a road on the left and ball field on the right. Now it's been claimed by the Susquehanna overflowing its banks.

Some of the things we saw today... cows standing in water up to their knees, campers and trailers submerged, cars washed off the road, roads caving in and crumbling, mud and rock slides, downed trees everywhere, houses with water up to the windows, washed-out bridges, fast-moving muddy water, people in town with everything that was in their basements and on the first floors piled under tarps in their yards... and our area wasn't even the hardest-hit. We are very fortunate that where we live seems to be above the flood plain. Our creek was high but never reached the road; other places here were flooded (including my dad's house; he had a creek running across his driveway) but right at our place everything stayed above water.

The folks who were flooded could sure use some prayers.

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