Wilkes-Barre, PA-Pennsylvania Saturday emergency management officials were considering lifted an evacuation order affecting approximately 100,000 people after days of rain and floods in the area submerged roads and left at least six dead, the Leader of the Wilkes-Barre times reported.
Affected communities flooding of New York, Virginia, with much of the damage along the Susquehanna River, swollen first by tropical storm Irene and then shortly after by tropical storm Lee. More than 12 inches of rain were dumped in some parts of New York and Pennsylvania since Monday.
Officials in alfalfa County, Pennsylvania, said Saturday that the Susquehanna water levels were back and they were considering allowing some residents to return to their homes.
"We are beginning to move in the opposite direction at this time," the paper quoted Executive Director of alfalfa County Flood Protection Authority Jim Brozena saying. "We start the preparation of things so that we can return people."
From 6: 30 pm et Saturday, the Susquehanna River had fallen to a level of 33.02 feet. Brozena, has declared a level below 30 feet, which could be reached Saturday afternoon - render safe for some of the 100,000 people displaced to return to their homes.
The River crested Friday at a record-setting 42,66 feet, higher than the National Weather Service approximately four feet estimated initially, Mayor of Wilkes - Barre Tom Leighton said.
Leighton has urged residents to take account of the orders of evacuation Friday after President Barack Obama said the State of emergency for New York and Pennsylvania during the night.
Three dead in Pennsylvania in incidents related to flooding, including a boy of eight years in the County of Lancaster, who was swept down a storm drain, said police in East Cocalico, according to the Intelligencer Journal.
Two people died in Virginia after having been swept away by flood waters, the Washington Post reported. A 12 year old boy was swept by flooding from a Creek, in Fairfax County and a man 67 year-old died in a car when it has been overwhelmed by rushing water from the Potomac River.
In Maryland, a 49-year-old man died after drowning near his home in Pasadena, near Chesapeake Bay, the Post reported.
In addition, the Delaware River to Trenton, New Jersey, overflowed its banks Thursday, flooding of several neighbourhoods of city and urging the closure of schools, The Star-Ledger reported.
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