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The National Weather Service In Binghamton New York Has Issued A

* Flood Warning For The Susquehanna River Near Wilkes-Barre. * From Early Tomorrow Through Saturday. * At 4 PM Tuesday The Stage Was... 11.8 Feet. * Major Flooding Is Forecast. * Flood Stage Is 22 Feet. * Forecast To Rise Above Flood Stage By Early Tomorrow And Continue To Rise To 38 To 40 Feet By Thursday Morning. * At 39 Feet... Swoyersville And Luzerne Begin To Flood.

...FORECAST FLOODING INCREASED FROM MINOR TO MAJOR SEVERITY...
THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR
THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER AT HARRISBURG
* UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
* AT 3 PM TUESDAY THE STAGE WAS...5.7 FEET.
* MAJOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 17.0 FEET.
* FORECAST TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE BY LATE EVENING TOMORROW AND
CONTINUE TO RISE TO A CREST NEAR 25.0 FEET BY LATE THURSDAY
EVENING.

That's worse than Agnes???

They could retire the designation 91L at this rate!

0615 PM FLASH FLOOD HARFORD 41.78N 75.70W 06/27/2006 SUSQUEHANNA PA TRAINED SPOTTER ROAD WASHOUTS. 1 INCH IN 15 MINUTES.

in hburg Agnes crest was 32 feet. This flood crest expected is comparable with the 1996 flood and worse than the Ivan floods.

Be careful up there. Flood waters are no fun. I experienced that in 1993.

Here's my Go-To site for flooding information.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt

the Skuykill river might see the worst flooding since Hurricane Agnes, this is unbelieveable.

The Ivan floods were horrible! Be careful.

I remember the Ivan Flood, Jeanne on top of that.

coriolis - thanks for the great link. Turns out I've got a small home and shop sitting in the town of one of those black dots on the Eastern Shore, meaning water levels are greater than the 95th percentile .... I'm quite a bit back from the Choptank river, but this graph has made me really nervous.

No problem. I hope that you come through ok, itsecure....

By the way everyone, at the top of the page, choose the category "real time." Then you can navigate to your state and nearest location.

How are you doing in Muncy, Ed? It's in the northeastern part of the state, right?

We're western northeastern. The front passed here and the rain stopped. We got anywhere from 2 to 4 inches of rain. The west branch of the susquehanna hasn't crested yet, but it's not going to be at historic levels. The north branch, though is getting hammered. Bloomsburg, Danville, Wilkes Barre, those places may be getting their worst ever. Wilkes Barre has flood protection, but I don't know if their levees may be topped.

200,000 ordered to evacuate near Wilkes-Barre
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/in ... ylist=penn

River may NOT overtop Levees however.

and we're breathing a cautious sigh of relief here in harrisburg. if it had rained over the west branch Susquehanna watershed (and Juniata watershed) like it did over the North Branch watershed, we'd be in a lick of trouble.

200,000 Ordered Evacuated Ahead Of Pa. Flooding
10 Confirmed Dead in Regional Deluge

POSTED: 10:15 am EDT June 28, 2006
UPDATED: 3:28 pm EDT June 28, 2006



BALTIMORE -- 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 10 people across the Northeast.

The storm that drenched the nation's capital has swept through the Northeast, forcing thousands more from their homes, including more than 2,200 who fled from a rising Maryland lake. A section of interstate highway was washed away in New York state and least 10 deaths were blamed on the weather. Three people were missing.

After days of heavy rain and floods, the sun was shining in Washington, D.C., as the dwindling storm moved through New York and New England, but rivers were still rising in much of the region. Numerous highways were blocked by flooding and washouts, including more than 200 in Virginia.

Virtually the entire state of Pennsylvania was under a flood watch or warning.


A dozen helicopters from the Pennsylvania National Guard, the state police and the U.S. Coast Guard plucked stranded residents from rooftops in Bloomsburg, Sayre and New Milford, and hundreds of National Guard personnel were preparing to distribute ice, water, and meals ready to eat.

"We don't have anywhere to go," evacuee Mehader Mekonne said Wednesday at a shelter in Montgomery County, Md.

The largest evacuation was ordered in an area surrounding Lake Needwood at Rockville, Md., which was approaching 25 feet above normal Wednesday, Montgomery County officials said.

Engineers found weakened spots on the lake's earthen dam, with water seeping through in places, said Bruce Romer, the county's chief administrative officer.

By Wednesday morning, police and rescue crews had evacuated an estimated 2,200 people from 500 apartments and 700 homes, Romer said. About 100 people refused to leave, he said. If the dam were to break, it could flood some areas as much as 20 feet deep, officials said.

The soaking weather was produced by a low pressure system that had stalled just out to sea since the weekend and pumped moist tropical air northward along the East Coast. Binghamton, N.Y., measured a record one-day total of 4.05 inches of rain on Tuesday. Although the bulk of the rain moved out of the area Wednesday, meteorologists said more showers and occasional thunderstorms were possible along the East Coast for the rest of the week.

New York state officials said two truckers were killed early Wednesday when they drove into a chasm that a flooded creek had carved across all four lanes of Interstate 88, about 35 miles northeast of Binghamton. The hole was 25 feet deep, state police said.

Thousands people were evacuated from communities across New York state, Gov. Georgia Pataki said, including hundreds in the Binghamton area. Whole villages north of Binghamton in rural Delaware County were isolated by high water.

"We have significant flooding throughout the county," said Delaware County planning director Nicole Franzese. "Widespread power outages, bridges washed out, roads washed out, the National Guard was operating all night."

Ten New York counties declared states of emergency.

I-81 also was closed at Lenox in northeastern Pennsylvania, where the small towns of New Milford and Lanesboro were evacuated, state police said.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell declared a disaster emergency in 46 of the state's 67 counties Wednesday and the National Guard had been sent into Schuylkill County, west of Allentown, late Tuesday to help evacuate residents.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike was closed near Fort Washington, in the Philadelphia area, and some commuter trains in the area had to skip flooded stations.

Along the Delaware River, more than 1,000 people had left low-lying areas of Trenton, N.J. Upriver, a police helicopter had to be used to rescue five people who had not heeded an evacuation order on an island near Port Jervis, N.Y., said Lt. Gerald Lewis of the New York State Police.

"When we tell these people to evacuate, we really mean it," Lewis said.

New Jersey state workers in buildings along the Delaware prepared to leave work early and Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer called for water conservation after the debris-choked Delaware forced a shutdown of the city's water filtration system. The mayor said more than two days of drinkable water remained.

In addition to the two deaths in New York, the weather was blamed for two traffic deaths in Pennsylvania and one in Maryland. A 15-year-old boy and a would-be rescuer drowned in a Pennsylvania lake. Three people died in western Maryland when they were washed out of the bed of a pickup truck.

Elsewhere in Maryland, two youths, ages 14 and 15, were missing near a swollen creek at Keymar, said state police 1st Sgt. Russell Newell. Teams in Virginia searched for an 8-year-old girl swept away by high water in Alleghany County.

41 feet is the level that Agnes reached - and there is a chance it could approach or exceed that. Such would also overtop the levees, likely leading to catastrophic flooding in the region.

terstorm1012 wrote:200,000 ordered to evacuate near Wilkes-Barre
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/in ... ylist=penn

River may NOT overtop Levees however.

and we're breathing a cautious sigh of relief here in harrisburg. if it had rained over the west branch Susquehanna watershed (and Juniata watershed) like it did over the North Branch watershed, we'd be in a lick of trouble.

Doesn't the Susquehanna bend up into New York then come back down towards Harrisburg?

The Susquehanna drains the central Mid-Atlantic. It has two branches that meet at Sunbury, PA. The North (which is actually east) is having the major flooding now. It also has several tributaries. The eastern tributaries saw lots of rain while the western ones did not, and the western tributaries have crested.

We're expecting a crest of about 20-21 feet here, down from last nights 25 ft. 25 would force me out of my apt. building.

The flooding in the Schuylkill River basin is amazing, but it appears the crest is finally moving south and levels should begin to fall over the next day or so.

Local news from Northeast PA
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/
http://www.wbre.com/