1972 vs. 2011 in Meshoppen, PennsylvaniaIn areas where there were no levees, the flooding from the remnants of Tropical Rainstorm Lee have in some cases created as much flooding as Hurricane Agnes in 1972. Read the story..
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1972 vs. 2011 in Meshoppen, Pennsylvania
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Flooding in Hershey, PA
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Serious Flooding across DC, Baltimore into Pennsylvania
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Flooding in historic Ellicot City, MD from @downtowndiane
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Pizza Hut underwater in Hershey, PA
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Flooding in Ellicot City, Maryland
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Slow Recovery for Schools Devastated by Weather This Year
The extreme weather of 2011 has certainly taken its tolls on schools, forcing early closures in the spring and students to now relocate for 2011-2012 school year.
Among the cities where schools have been most severely impacted by weather this year are Minot, N.D., Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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Amazing Irene Flooding VideoAccuWeather.com reader Ralph Fato sent us a time-lapse video of Irene flooding in Connecticut.
“The camera is 5 feet higher than the top of the wall,” Fato said. “The wall is 10 feet high from bottom of the pond.”
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Weather Disasters Busting the Bank for FEMA
To almost no one’s surprise, Hurricane Irene might bust FEMA’s Federal Disaster Relief Fund.How much did Irene cost? Most estimates range between $7 and $13 billion.
If the preliminary hurricane estimates are correct, 2011 will likely set a record for the highest number of billion-dollar disasters in a year. Hurricane Irene is projected to be the nation’s 10th disaster costing a billion dollars or more this year, passing up the nine that occurred in 2008.
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Irene has caused damaging wind and excessive rains from the Carolinas to New England. Here are the highest rainfall and wind totals that we have seen through 10 a.m. EDT:Rainfall
Aurora, N.C., 19.00 inches
Bunyan, N.C., 14.00 inches
Ft. Eustis, Va., 12.52 inches
Washington, N.C., 11.31 inches
Camp Springs, Md., 11.21 inches
New Bern, N.C., 11.13 inches
Suffolk, Va., 10.71 inches
Grifton, N.C., 10.53 inches
Newport, N.C., 10.22 inches
Wenona, N.C., 10.13 inches
Newark, N.J., 8.92 inches
Wind Gusts
Cedar Island, N.C., 115 mph
Fort Macon, N.C., 92 mph
Hatteras, N.C., 88 mph
Buxton, N.C., 79 mph
Cape Lookout, N.C., 78 mph
Oregon Inlet, N.C., 78 mph
Chesapeake Beach, Md., 72 mph
Gaithersburg, Md., 72 mph
Calvert Cliffs, Md., 72 mph
See totals by city…
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