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[apocalypsos]

Pennsylvania flooding forces evacuations.

This morning on the local news, they said we got three months worth of rain in a week. It was nasty out there the last couple of days, y'all, seriously.

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[witchofthedogs.livejournal.com]

It is completely fuckered.

I had to stay home due to water damage here at the house and I've been watching the flood coverage... Right now, I have on CBS 3 and the video coverage is amazing... Some idiot standing down by Kelly Drive with his kid in a baby stroller taking pictures right at the edge of the water.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Last night at work, I know at least two people who had to leave to go evacuate, and one of my friends had to stay home because her basement was flooding badly. It's ridiculous. I've lived here my whole life and I don't think I've ever seen it this bad.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure everybody who wasn't evacuating last night was playing the same game -- "Hey, let's go down to the Schuylkill/Lackawanna/Susquehanna River and see how high it's gotten!" I just consider myself lucky that my apartment's high enough on the hill for me not to worry, but it's still so weird.

[witchofthedogs.livejournal.com]

We've had it worse here in Delaware (Hurricane Floyd and then back in September, 2003) than this, but I don't ever remember seing Philly get hit this hard... I mean, Kelly Drive is always flooding, but I've never heard of Trenton being shut down and everyone being told to get out... and fast.

Luckily, I too live up in the hills (though, there is a creek down at the bottom of the hill), but I can drive 3 minutes down the road and see any of this.

[babyofthegroup.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so I'm flying to Philly for a wedding tomorrow. Has the insanity stopped mostly? I'd hate for my friend's wedding to get rained out.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

My whole hometown is on a hill and even the lowest-level street is still pretty high up, but the next big town over has the Lackawanna River flowing right through downtown. The usual river level is maybe five feet below the street level, if that, so yesterday when I went there to get groceries, you couldn't get anywhere near it. Hell, I'm amazed they didn't close off Main Street ... the damn thing runs right alongside the river not even half a block away from it.

No shit.

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

My folks are on the wrong side of the Schuykill (sp?).

They may get home sometime today.

Maybe.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, the rain's stopped and as far as I know the next few days are supposed to be warm and sunny. But up here they're still cleaning up big-time, so I imagine they might be doing the same thing down there, too.

[babyofthegroup.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm just going to have to hope that the farm-type place she's getting married isn't destroyed. ::crosses fingers:: And, you know, that the city isn't completely washed away. Three months of rain in a week -- that's NUTS.

Re: No shit.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I thought the Lackawanna and Susquehanna looked awful, but then I saw pictures of the Schuylkill and heard last night that the dam might break and all I could do last night at work was stand around and say, "And we're all still here at work, WHY?!" Honestly, if you don't live in a valley near a river around here, you live on a hill and we were having rock and mudslides last night.

I came home from work and heard that five blocks of road on the main drag of my hometown supposedly washed away. I haven't seen it yet but I think it was the section outside of the business area, though, which means it's not much of a surprise. That end of the road was barely holding together, last time I saw it.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Our meteorologist was going on about how it's not even like this was melted snow or springtime runoff, which is what it usually is around here -- it was just all RAIN. That was the thing ... we bitched for a week because that's all it was doing was raining and then all of a sudden it was, "Hey, why the hell is my furniture floating past me?"

Is it near a creek? Because if it's near what's usually a nice little picturesque creek ... *winces* (The park in our hometown has this little creek that's maybe a couple of feet across and only a few inches deep normally. Yesterday I drove up there and it was a freakin' POND. The geese were swimming in it.)

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

The rain has stopped, but the flooding is just beginning in the lower Delaware Valley. The river won't crest down here (I'm just north of Trenton NJ) until late Thursday or early Friday, so there may still be transportation problems in the Philly area.

[babyofthegroup.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know what the surrounding area is like; I guess I'll find out when I get there.

::packs inflatable raft::

[babyofthegroup.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I hope they don't close any SEPTA lines; we're counting on them to get from the airport to center city.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

That line doesn't go down very often, but you might want to keep an eye on http://septa.com/ just in case. Good luck!

Re: No shit.

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

They made it from Phoenixville to Lansdale in 4.5 hours. Normal duration: 45min.

They're a little wrecked.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

God is teaching the rest of the world what it's like to be Florida.