[caww]

This is very serious....my hometown has shut down entirely ...people were stuck in stores, there have been rescues, and evacuations...telling folks to get to higher ground as more storms coVing in until 11;00 tonight.

Vy brother in law is high and dry but said "red alerts'" are throughout the area and floods everywhere continuing.

[Spacetrucker]

Used to frequent up that way; northern side of the Allegheny rolls through some pretty lowland territory. Place called Eldred gets it good every time it rises high.

[caww]

This is what went into the downtown area...

[tomkat]

Dunno about anyone else hereabouts, but I'm about up to *here* with rain for awhile   :-\

Tons of the stuff and just enough sun to make the grass grow about 2" per day .. oy vey

[TomGuy]

Summer storms from TX, OK, KS and moving eastward.

[Rebelbase]

Videos:

Flooding consumes central Schuylkill County, Pa. - 08/13/2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quuWAfifvlE

Oh no! Severe flooding in Tremont, PA. August 13, 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rFg2HaavJU

[waterhill]

Prayers up, I just watched the footage on the weather channel. Looks hellacious.

[SamAdams76]

Lot of rain has fallen across the Northeast this summer. I'm still moving my lawn like it was the middle of June and all the rivers and creeks are running high. My backyard looks like a tropical jungle. Usually this time of year, the lawn is burnt and brown in many places.

If we do get a tropical storm or remnants of hurricane running up the coast, there could be some incredible flooding in these parts.

[gathersnomoss]

We all can join together and help stop these devastating floods. Won’t you please join me? Please send $100.00 in cash to:

AlGore’s Stop The Angry Earth Foundation
PO Box OU812
Chicago 60609

The time is NOW. Do it today because Al Cares!

[21twelve]

Prayers for those folks. We were on a road trip and got off the freeway to take a back road. Looking for local eats and a more scenic drive. The diner and the Dairy Queen had been wiped out by a flood in the narrow river bottom - West Virgina. They were still moving piles of mud out of one of the lanes of the road.

We ended up at a local church where they had a bunch of supplies for the locals and organizing the recovery. Several folks had died as well. (We did get some food - the pastor and his helpers gave us some hotdogs that they were cooking up for the volunteers!)

We gave them a decent donation. It was really amazing to see this small church (also flooded) organize things. They had a big pole barn on higher ground that they cleaned out first, and had all sorts of supplies that were coming in stored there (food, clothing, cleaning supplies, etc.)

The pastor pointed out group of trees about a foot in diameter. About 30 feet up they were all broken off. “So the water came down off the hill in that little gully up there across the road. (Rocky road cut that made a cliff). Water came shooting out of that gully and over the top of the road - and sheared those trees of way up there!” I’m guessing the trees were 40 feet from the edge of the cliff on the other side of the road!

[tomkat]

Those idiot rafters were found alive.

https://wnep.com/2018/08/13/search-for-missing-rafters-on-lehigh-river/