Monday Madness~Flooding in my area
January 25, 2010 by Erica
I had been watching the news last night. Our local station warned my area of a flood watch. So, needless to say, I was a tad concerned this morning. I woke up before my alarm went off because it was raining like crazy. As I stumbled to the kitchen for a cup of coffee, I wondered how high the creek was. Black Hole Creek winds its way through the little town of Montgomery, PA and empties into the Susquehanna River.
I stepped out my back door with coffee in hand. I was surprised to see some of the trees along the bank of the creek actually in the creek. The banks of the creek no longer exist. Well, they do, but they’re under about two feet of rushing, muddy water. The park benches were pretty much unusable today. This photo was taken after the rain had stopped. When it was still raining, the water was all the way up to the bench seat.
This is next to the playground where my children play.
The area highlighted in red is where my kids usually play when they’re not on the playground. As you can see, half of that is under water. That’s the excitement for the day here. I hope that’s all the excitement that I get. I don’t think that I could handle anymore excitement.
I wish you all a happy Monday!
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Posted in Family Living | Tagged bad day, flooding, weather | 3 Comments
Glad to hear your home wasn’t flooded! We’ve had lots of rain here in CA and more coming tomorrow. Lots of cliffs by the ocean threatened. I don’t live near any area that floods or has mud slide…thank goodness.
Best wishes,
Carol
Carol,
Thank you so much for you warm wishes. The water has to rise quite a bit before it actually gets to my house so I wasn’t extremely worried. But, today there was more flooding in my town. Nothing too serious, thank God! And it’s finally over, I hope.
I’m very relieved to hear that you’re not in the flood area!
Hugs,
Erica
That area in the first, top picture was property with a home on it, in fact that whole side of the creek had 3-4 home; they were all lost in the ’72 flood