UP TO 200,000 ORDERED EVACUATED FROM WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA (FLOODING)

Reuters ^ | June 28, 2006

[HAL9000]

UP TO 200,000 ORDERED EVACUATED FROM WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, IN NEXT FIVE HOURS- COUNTY OFFICIAL

[GOPJ]

How's Allentown doing?

[MplsSteve]

Wow, that was a cryptic article by Reuters!

What's the reason? Flooding?

[The Iceman Cometh]

Did Ted Kennedy just do a cannonball?

[Dems_R_Losers]

Very, very bad up here in PA.

[thoughtomator]

I'm guessing this is due to water levels and not something else?

[Shady]

It's really bad here in Endwell, NY, Send prayers. Thanks Freepers!

[mewzilla]

News from Binghamton, NY on the flooding: www.wbng.com

From Wilkes-Barre, PA: www.wnep.com

From Philly, PA: http://cbs3.com/

Prayers for folks in harm's way.

[D-Chivas]

They'll all be driving away in SUVs, thus causing more global warming and bad weather. (/sarcasm)

[Mr. Jeeves]

I'm guessing this is due to water levels and not something else?

Might be for aesthetic reasons. They should evacuate Detroit next. ;)

[Sunshine Sister]

Thanks for the laugh!!!!!!

[babble-on]

Bush's Fault

[mewzilla]

Heard the PA Nat'l Guard just pulled off a rescue in Conklin. When do they expect the Susquehanna to crest?

[AD from SpringBay]

Time to fire up the FEMA $2,000 card machine. Don't be evacuated without it.

[MeanWestTexan]

Yes, flooding.

[American Quilter]

200,000! Good grief! Where will they all go?

[kidd]

Party Time!

[fatima]

Later today then we have the delaware river.

[Xenalyte]

For what? Flooding? Bomb scare? Nuclear meltdown?

[dead]

Might be for aesthetic reasons. They should evacuate Detroit next. ;)

LOL! They should pave Camden, before or after the evacuation.

[American Quilter]

You have my prayers for your safety and swift recovery from the flood's effects. May God bless and protect you!

[1Old Pro]

It's really bad here in Endwell, NY, Send prayers. Thanks Freepers!

The NYS Thruway is closed in parts due to flooding. I heard two truckers were killed when their trucks hit a gaping hole in the road.

[mewzilla]

200,000! Good grief! Where will they all go?

Any place that stayed dry during Agnes in '72. They're opening a lot of shelters. The local media have the locations up on their websites.

[Buckeye McFrog]

For what? Flooding? Bomb scare? Nuclear meltdown?

Ed Rendell with a bucket of bean dip :)

[Xenalyte]

What's bad? Is there a plague of locusts o'er the land? Is the earth about to stop spinning?

[Dog Gone]

How can they order out 200,000 people from a town of less than 50,000? Were they having the Mother of All Conventions?

[Purrcival]

Prayers up

[Xenalyte]

Eeeeeew! That'd make me evacuate, and I'm all the way in Texas!

[rhc2000]

Just spoke with a client in Allentown and he said they've been spared much of the heavy rain.

[Mo1]

This is no good news

[freedumb2003]

How can they order out 200,000 people from a town of less than 50,000?

It must be a Democratic precinct...

[SE Mom]

Sending Florida FReeper prayers to you all in the Mid-Atlantic...be careful.

[mewzilla]

I didn't realize it was that bad up north. Click below for a Syracuse TV station's website with a link to the story on the two truckers who died...

http://www.9wsyr.com/

[tx_eggman]

Imagine if it was really raining hard ...

Almost 6 inches of rain fell in just 75 minutes near Hobby Airport, the National Weather Service reported.

Houston Storm, June 19, 2006

[DonaldC]

Will they be getting fema cards as well?

[Think free or die]

PA is being hit very hard, as is NY. The immediate concern has been flash flooding from several days of heavy rain. Beyond flash flooding, the ability of the large rivers to accommodate the huge volume of water is a big problem. Rivers haven't crested yet, and very high levels are predicted throughout the watershed. Trenton and Philadelphia are also bracing for the impact.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Susquehanna expected to crest tomorrow afternoon between 38-40 feet. Agnes caused a crest of 40.9 feet in 1972. The levee walls are at 41 feet. This will be a close one.

I live in Bucks County where it is not so bad yet, but the water moves down the Delaware and we are expecting bad flooding at New Hope by tomorrow. Three years in a row for those poor folks.

[MineralMan]

You know, this doesn't seem all that humorous to me. Lots of folks are in danger from this flooding. If you find it amusing, how about laughing somewhere else?

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Did Ted Kennedy just do a cannonball?"

friggin hilarious.

[Mo1]

I think it has to deal with surrounding areas also

Flooding is really bad .. they are worried about levees and damns

Evacuation ordered
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/14922350.htm

[Shady]

At Vestal we are looking at between 33 & 35 feet - '36 was 30.5 this is a new record. All of the people in the affected neighborhood except for a couple of *****'s got out without a fight.

[mewzilla]

I love the drive down along the Delaware Water Gap. Beautiful county. Looks like the NPS has closed the park due to the flooding.

[PISANO]

OK!!

NOW ALL TOGETHER PLEASE....one-two-three..........

IT IS ALL BUSH's FAULT!!!

[La Enchiladita]

Ongoing PA, NY, MD Flooding Thread Started Yesterday

[trebb]

As I reacll, we had this kind of flooding up in the North East back in the last end of the 60s or the first end of the 70s. I don't think Algore was as interested in screaming about the global warming thing.

[muggs]

You know, this doesn't seem all that humorous to me. Lots of folks are in danger from this flooding. If you find it amusing, how about laughing somewhere else?

I don't find anything about this funny either.

[Strategerist]

If you read the article, it's Wilkes-Barre and surrounding areas of Luzerne County, which do in fact have 200,000 people.

On another board there's an unsourced RUMOR (and I stress RUMOR that the reason for the evacs despite the crest being below the top of the levees is there's a bubble in one of the levees.

I suspect that since Katrina there's just much less confidence in levees.

[Shady]

I 88 in Delaware County - 22 foot hole in the road - My son drove that YESTERDAY!

[eyespysomething]

Its already cresting? I thought it was still raining?

[mewzilla]

For the Susquehanna, this is the worst I've seen since Agnes. I live to the west, and the worst we've had is some small stream and creek flooding. And, of course, the infamous Lowman Crossover is closed. Again.