Flooding in town this week... pictures

nadams

Yet another case of flooding in Bloomsburg. Here's some pictures from around the area... I'm going to go out and take more tomorrow morning...



























Note the high water line in the above pic. The water there would still be over the roof of my car as it was then.

Next post will be an special group of pics...

nadams

Most of you probably have never heard of the East Paden and West Paden Twinned Covered Bridges, but they were a sort of a local source of pride for PA, as they were the only known twinned covered bridges in the US. They were built in the late 1800's for a total of $720.

On Wednesday morning, Huntington creek took the West Paden bridge and sent it on towards the Chesapeake Bay.






Where the West Paden once stood






You can see that the creek also took the supports out from under the East Paden bridge. The creek does not normally run under this bridge.












The only bit I could find of the bridge.

Dennis Gardner

Rushing water is so destructive. Few powers on earth can compare.............


Settling along rivers seemed like a good thing hundreds of years ago, now you wonder.

Nice pics Noah. You really captured it well.

I will be in that neck of the woods on Wednesday, over by Allentown, (Macungie). No flooding issues there since no major rivers are close.

janmike

What a mess.

F1nut

Great pics, sorry to see them though. I hope they'll rebuild the bridges.

audiobliss

F1nut wrote:

I hope they'll rebuild the bridges.

ditto

disneyjoe7

Thank you for the pictures, sorry about the bridge I hope they repair it also.

schwarcw

Very interesting pictures Noah. I hope that your home and/or friends and family were not affected by this mess.

Refefer

Wow....

That's rough, I've heard some horror stories from some friends in upstate New York that I thought sounded pretty bad... but those pictures really hammer it home on how much damage can be done.

Looks horrible out there. Did you make it through without any damage?

Schris22

we got some bad flooding in Houston. I took a few pictures while stuck in traffic in my car, we got some national coverage, but it doesn't even compare to what happened to other parts of America just a week later

Hope everyone gets a speedy recovery and gets all the aid they need.


Chris

nadams

Yeah, we made it through okay here at home. We live on the other side of the river, up on top of a small mountain, so we were safe from all but groundwater/runoff... and there was plenty of that. We had a little water in the basement, and lost power for a few hours, but we recovered a lot faster than the people you're going to see in the next pictures:


The town park... that's standing water, the river has actually receded...


Note the high water mark on the pavilion roof.


Something tells me the person with the car would have more to worry about in this case.


The fountain in the town square is dry... the entire town, plus the town of Buckhorn and all the way up the highway about 7 miles is run off the same water system... which is currently still shut off (and has been since Tuesday). The business where I work has a well, luckily, so we don't have to miss work.


Local church set up a food tent for people hardest hit in town.


The national Guard and local police have set up water stations throughout town, including tanks and cases of bottled water, free for residents.


This is the scene all through the lower part of town. People's belongings thrown in a pile out on the curb, waiting for the trash man to come. All the local disposal companies have been bringing in rolloff after rolloff for people to put their ruined stuff in.


This is the bridge over Fishing Creek into Fernville. I was not able to get into Fernville to get any pictures, but I'd imagine it's pretty much destroyed.


The next few pictures will be of the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds, where the 4-Wheel and Offroad Jamboree is supposed to take place next weekend. We'll see about that....


Note the top high water mark on this barn.


Livestock barns for when the fair is going on...


Sloppy, stinky river mud. Who knows what kind of bacteria is in this stuff.


The bottom end of the fairgrounds is all mud and water. I'd imagine the storm drains are blocked with debris.


There's still too much water going into the storm drains...


If this hadn't gotten stuck here, chances are it would've made it to the Chesapeake.


Taken from below Rt. 487. Half the road is gone, and PennDOT is busy rebuilding.


A second section.


This is what happens when you don't pull your trailer out of your creekside lot... Luckily, it got caught in the trees, or it would've ended up like the next one...


Who knows how far up the creek this came from...


A lot of farmers are going to be hurting... this field of soybeans didn't fare too well.


More of Rt. 487 damaged.


These two houses were directly in the path of one of the small creeks. This creek is normally a slow one, and it's a tributary to Fishing Creek.


Slightly more permanently parked.


Losing a shed...


And one that's already lost. You can see the small creekbed at the far end of this shot, but the creek's path has been changed by all the rocks being pushed around.


And I think that's it for my flood pics, at least from this storm. Lets hope we don't get another one too soon.

BlueMDPicker

Excellent photos, Noah. I hope there was no loss of life in your community.

We had a bit over 12" in a two day span from the same storm.