BLOOMBSBURG, PA. -areas in the North of the Susquehanna River swollen began Friday but after days of rain from the remnants of the storm tropical Lee flooded communities from Virginia to New York, leading to evacuation orders for 100,000 people. Some evacuees were allowed to the House.
The damage was concentrated along the Susquehanna at Binghamton, New York; in the cities of up - and downstream protected lifting Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where more than 70 000 people were told to evacuate; and communities more downstream, in Maryland.
Susquehanna River crested at 42.66 feet Thursday evening at Wilkes-Barre - to beyond of design more than the record set in historic flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes in 1972 and in quality of the system of reception of the city.
"They did what was good for them, the people there," said Tom Vaxmonsky, a resident of Pittson West, just above the Wilkes-Barre. "But it's like everything else, for every action there is a reaction." And the reaction is that we had much more that we made in 72 with the Agnes flood water. »
As floodwaters that invades the city of Binghamton, including the Mayor called the worst in more than 60 years and the surrounding communities start decreasing, the first 20,000 evacuees began returning to their homes.
Robert Smith, 35, he return around noon at his home in an article struggling to Binghamton. Mud and debris covered pavement, and the water still blocked streets closest to the River. But he feels inspired to the point where that he spent in a shelter; When a woman collapsed on the floor, he said, transported foreigners to emergency to tend to him.
"Everyone was help each other out, just complete strangers," he said. "You have never seen it before in your life.".
Flooding was fed by days of heavy rains was tropical storm Lee and followed a little more than a week in watering of this hurricane Irene gave the coast is. In some parts of Pennsylvania, the total precipitation reached 9 inches or more, at the top of what was already a relatively wet summer.
The authorities closed Pennsylvania countless roads, including some interstates strong and evacuation shelters open as many displaced persons.
In Wilkes-Barre, officials have said the dikes holds that the Susquehanna was under "extreme stress", but holding.
A broken gauge flooding hindered the ability of officials to measure the height of the River, but the U.S. Geological Survey Friday estimated that the River had crested 42.66 feet, well above earlier estimates and higher than the record of 1972 of 40.9 feet.
Executive Director of alfalfa County Flood Protection Authority Jim Brozena, said the River was down Friday, but that the flood control system was in its "extreme limits".
Heavy rain is also at the closure of some parts of the Capital Beltway in Fairfax County, Virginia, but some parts have reopened. As well as 10 inches of rain fell in some places in the vicinity of Washington since Wednesday.
In Maryland, most of the 1,000 residents of the Port deposit have been advised to evacuate after the dam of massive Conowingo upstream on the Susquehanna, opened its doors in case of spill and flooded the city with 4 feet of water. Hundreds more were told to leave their home in Havre de Grace, where the river meets the Chesapeake Bay.
The River crested Friday morning under record levels but dam was not intended to repelled until, in the night. Shelters opened in Perryville and Aberdeen, with river levels expected to be higher since Agnes.
President Barack Obama declared States of emergency in Pennsylvania and New York, Friday at first, paving the way with the Federal Government. Also, Governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell said an emergency situation, allowing State agencies to help communities.
Evacuees said expect to remain at least until Sunday or Monday, and it will be some time before officials get a handle on the damage which included a partial bridge collapse in Northern Pennsylvania, vehicles and other property has swept away sewage treatment plants and failed.
"We have some damage, but you won't know until it's over, said Mayor Tom Leighton Wilkes-Barre."
People in many small towns and rural areas in the Centre of Pennsylvania sometimes scrambled to get their families and their luggage out of danger, as the waters rose with frightening speed.
West Pittston, unprotected by dikes, several hundred houses were under water - much to the second floor, said former Mayor Bill Goldsworthy. Home of the own Goldsworthy was among those flooded.
It's the same story downstream in Plymouth Township, where homes and businesses flood submerged approximately 80 water.
More on the Susquehanna in Bloomsburg, the height reached by Agnes topped flood waters and were expected to Crest just below the record set by a flood of 1904.
Harrisburg evacuated 6 000 to 10 000 people in low-lying areas, while in alfalfa County, PA., which includes Wilkes-Barre, the evacuation order covered all communities along the Susquehanna River flooded in the deluge of Hurricane Agnes of 1972.
Late Thursday, city Wilkes-Barre crews scrambled to connect system with bags of sand control of the holes in the floods developed city. Dramatic increase in the river begins to slow, giving hope that the walls and earthen mounds would hold.
Nearby place not protected by the receiving system, however, officials of emergency should flooding of the structures of 800 to 900, with likely River Ridge above the roofs.
At least 12 deaths were attributed to Lee and his suites: four in Pennsylvania; three in Virginia. one in Maryland; and four other people killed when he came ashore on the Gulf Coast last week.
There were also mandatory evacuations in a neighbourhood along the Housatonic River in Shelton, Conn., as residents were cleaning up messes that Hurricane Irene left for account.
"I still have fish swimming in my garage, this is a first," Brian Johnson said the position of Connecticut. "It y Minnow swimming there.".
Damage in parts of New Jersey that have been flooded by Irene rains were less to fear. About 300 residents waiting to return home after the remains of Lee renewal of floods. Three houses were swept off the coast of their foundations by a mudslide, but no one was injured.
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