Bloomsburg is a microcosm of the devastation left behind by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee. Lee dumped more than a foot of rain in places from Louisiana to New York, sending creeks and rivers rising to record levels and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
In Binghamton, N.Y., and Wilkes-Barre and Bloomsburg, Pa., the Susquehanna crested at the highest level ever recorded. For most places, the record to beat was from Hurricane Agnes in 1972.
President Obama declared disaster areas for 42 counties in Pennsylvania and 15 in New York last weekend. The worst of the flooding was focused along the Susquehanna River Valley, which extends from Otsego Lake in New York to the northern end of Chesapeake Bay.
At least 15 deaths have been blamed on the flooding from Lee, according to the Associated Press.
When totaling up the damage caused from Louisiana to New York, Lee could become the nation’s 11th billion-dollar disaster this year. 2011 set the record for the most billion-dollar disasters in a year in the U.S. when Irene became the 10th.
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Are they counting the Bastrop fire on that list? Does that make it twelve?
Or are they folding that into the Texas drought?
And, for that matter, who keeps such a list?
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mt
NOAA Keeps track. The erosion from this even into the Chesapeake is amazing.
as noted by Skytruth
I would think that all the denier folks that care so much about the economy would be more than willing to stop such a drain on the economy as increasing disasters.