[AT] OT - Remnants of Ivan

Rob Gray Robgray at epix.net
Sun Sep 19 20:35:10 PDT 2004


NJ state offices were also closed today since the Delaware River flooded 
downtown Trenton as well. That is about an hour downstream from me...

Rob
NE PA


Michael Mummert wrote:

>I just got an email from my mom that the State workers in Harrisburg have
>the day off because the Susquehanna is rising, but she didn't go into
>details.  Are they looking at flooding similar to Agnes in '72?
>
>Down here in central AL, many are still cleaning up. I don't know if it's
>because I am  down in a low area that we were protected, but we only lost
>one tree (that was due to be cut down anyway) and never even lost power.
>Yet every single person I talked to (that doesn't live right around me) at
>church yesterday had lost power for at least a day - some still don't have
>it and most everyone with large trees has some tree damage, if not several
>down.  But, amazingly, no one I know around here has major damage.  Maybe a
>tree on a roof, but nothing that can't be fixed.
>
>So, despite our inconveniences, we are still much, much better off than
>those further south and on the coast, and it sounds like many northeast of
>us who are losing all through flooding.  My heart and prayers go out to
>those who do have major damage or lost everything.  As bad as that howling
>wind is, and the mess it can make, I'd still rather have what we got over
>flooding.
>
>Mike Mummert
>Wetumpka, AL.
>
>  
>





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