Flood Waters Threaten To Make Manayunk The Next New Orleans; Rich Tradition of Really Bitchin’ Cover Bands Could Be Washed Away
A flood warning is in effect for the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia until Friday morning.KYW’s Hadas Kuznits reports that the Philadelphia Fire Department was conducting “precautionary” evacuations of about a dozen homes along Main Street and Shurs Lane in Manayunk [NOT pictured, above right, it's actually Wilkes-Barre post-Agnes].
KYW’s Robin Culverwell reports that torrents of rain in the dark left flooded roadways across the region by dawn. Drivers hydroplaned all around the area. Trees came down, roots unable to stay steady in soggy ground, and sending the Schuylkill River over her banks at Midvale Avenue and Kelly Drive.
The river continued to rise there, and was going to do so for hours to come — AccuWeather says, in fact, until early Thursday, when water was expected to hit 14.4 feet. That’s “moderate” flooding, they say, and almost as bad as Hurricane Agnes in 1972, when the water level hit 14.6 feet.
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