Lee flooding in the northeast?
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martyintampa on 9/8/2011, 8:08 pm
Lee drenches Northeast; 100K told to leave homes
Associated Press ^ | September 8, 2011 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Posted on Thu Sep 08 2011 20:04:00 GMT-0400 (EDT) by decimon
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee poured water on top of the already soaked Northeast on Thursday, closing hundreds of roads and forcing evacuation orders for more than 100,000 people from the Susquehanna River's worst flooding in nearly 40 years.
Most of the evacuations were ordered in and around Wilkes-Barre, where the levee system is just high enough to hold back the river if it crests at the predicted level. Even if the levees hold, 800 to 900 unprotected homes were in danger. If they fail, thousands of buildings could be lost.
"This is a scary situation," said Stephen Bekanich, Luzerne County's emergency management director. He and other officials were confident the levees would work but sought volunteers to lay sandbags on both sides of the river.
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