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About 6 months after I bought my house the Army Corps of Engineers decided I'm on a 100 year flood plain. :smack:

This thread is kind of old news now, but I'm going to add to it anyway. I've been away for two weeks or so on vacation, and just recently was able to organize some of my pictures. I went to NE Pennsylvania, not so far from Scranton, where my family has a cottage on a lake.

This first group of pictures was taken by my Dad on I-81 at Great Bend, PA. This was during the height of the flooding. They temporarily closed the highway so a Coast Guard rescue helicopter could use it for landings while doing rescue work. He was lucky enough to be just a few cars back from the action.

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This is the lake where we have a cottage. It was about 4 feet higher than normal, which is pretty impressive considering how small the valley is that drains into it.

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These two bridges are (were) in Creamton, PA, a small "village" near Honesdale PA. It's really just a handful of houses at a crossroads. This is the East Branch of the Lackawaxen river. It's really just a stream. You can normally walk across it from rock to rock without getting your feet wet.

Here's the first bridge:

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This second bridge almost had a fatality. The man who was driving this pickup was able to get out of his truck before it got pinned under the guardrail and pole. He was found downstream with most of his clothes torn off, and it took half a dozen people to pull him out, he was so tangled up in debris. His obesity didn't help either. He was very bruised, but otherwise OK.

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Good photos. I surveyed a parcel across from Smokin' Joes a few years ago. I don't remember doing any flood elevations but they probably already existed.

woah ,,,:eek:

It's interesting to see a Coast Guard helicopter working in the Appalachian Mountains.

While on the job yesterday( i work for an electric utility company), I drove through The "Island" section in Trenton, NJ. It is kind of eerie to see the Fema folks all set up and the piles of now useless washer/dryer/hot waterheaters amassed at the curbs........I really need to start carrying my camera.

On a side note, very interesting pics Glatt. Thanks for sharing!

We prefer Endless Mountains. ;)