Hurricane Agnes devastated the Central Susquehanna Valley in 1972, for the people who lived through it, "The Flood" is seared in their memory, as vivid as though it happened yesterday.
Tropical Storm Lee is currently stalled out over the Mid-Atlantic, and the comparisons to Agnes keep building.
Flood sirens have gone off in Lewisburg - in the five years I lived there I never once heard a flood siren, though we had several bouts of flooding and closed streets, especially down by the river. Bucknell, which is a residential campus, not only cancelled class but pretty much shut down and is apparently evacuating 800-some students out of the dorms. Hwy 15 was closed for a while due to flooding, I'm hoping from the creek I used to live by, because if the river has gotten that wide they are in trouble.
Be safe out there, my central Pennsylvania and western New York friends. Know that you are in a lot of thoughts and hearts and prayers!
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