Luzerne county residents may fine this interesting- Wyoming Valley following the Agnes storm in 1972

[step.eng69]

Luzerne county residents may fine this interesting- Wyoming Valley following the Agnes storm in 1972.


High school friend sent this link. Information containing pictures and comments of Wyoming Valley following the Agnes storm in 1972. In Kingston at the intersection of Market Street & Wyoming Ave (Rt.11) the high water lapped at the bottom of the traffic signals. The traffic signals were 14’ above the pavement.

My office is located a block along Market from the other side of the bridge. In 2011 I evacuated the necessary equipment & documents from the office. The water rose to the top of the newly constructed dikes, but didn't breach.


https://www.facebook.com/agnes72

 

[harbest]

I remember the best paying job after the flood was going around the west side and helping recover the bodies that had washed out of the Forty Fort cemetery. They reburied the ones they could identify and the ones they couldn't they placed in a mass grave at Shrine memorial in Orange under a special memorial, far away from the flood plain.

 

[Alphabets]

Unreal. I wasn't born in '72, but I was certainly around for 2011. Luckily neither locations I have lived were ever affected by flooding. I don't think I could ever live in a potential flood zone. I wouldn't want to ever deal with anything like that.

 

[Howie'81]

I remember it well. I lived a block away from the Wyoming Monument in Wyoming and watched the water come down Wyoming Avenue into the shopping center from the breech in the levee at the Forty Fort cemetery. We also watched caskets float down the Avenue, which came to rest a few feet from where we were standing on higher ground. Both surreal and eerie.

I was 13 years old at the time.

 

[Victor E. Bell]

When the levee breaks, mama you got to move.

 

[royboy]

My dad (PSU 1947 and since departed) was an engineering manager for Bell Telephone in Central PA at the time, a territory that included most of the Susquehanna valley. He grabbed my sleeping bag and went about the difficult job of restoring telephone service -- we didn't see him for two weeks. Took a while to get all the utilities back.

 

[BigMatt]

I lived it. I was sandbagging at the Pierce street bridge unto the siren went off to evacuate. I lived in Kingston until 2004 and finally moved because of the flood scares we were having. I'm now safe in the mountains.

 

[psuguy04]

Wasn't around for Agnes, but 2011 was extremely devastating for the Bloomsburg area. Many I've spoken with said it was much worse in 2011 than in 1972.

 

[Howie'81]

Wasn't around for Agnes, but 2011 was extremely devastating for the Bloomsburg area. Many I've spoken with said it was much worse in 2011 than in 1972.

Maybe, but that certainly wasn't the case for Wyoming Valley. The levee system in 2011 worked fairly well, at least compared to 1972, where it failed catastrophically.

 

[bar2ski]

I remember it well. I lived a block away from the Wyoming Monument in Wyoming and watched the water come down Wyoming Avenue into the shopping center from the breech in the levee at the Forty Fort cemetery. We also watched caskets float down the Avenue, which came to rest a few feet from where we were standing on higher ground. Both surreal and eerie.

I remember the best paying job after the flood was going around the west side and helping recover the bodies that had washed out of the Forty Fort cemetery. They reburied the ones they could identify and the ones they couldn't they placed in a mass grave at Shrine memorial in Orange under a special memorial, far away from the flood plain.

I also remember it well. I lived in Toy Town (Atherton Park in West Wyoming). I was at Wilkes at the time and a volunteer fireman. The hardest thing to watch was the national guard pick up all types of bodies from the Forty Fort cemetary which washed up behind our subdivision.

I am also married to a member of the Gilligan clan from Wyoming and Bernie and John Gilligan, as well as my bother In law, JoeLisewski were on Wyoming Boro Police department at the time. Bernie was the Chief of Police.The three used to tell this story about being at the Midway Sopping Center with Dr /Mayor Stroh and watching the caskets float up to them. They looked at one casket and it was Dr Stroh's recently deceased wifes casket. That is by far the most eerie story i remember of the many I can tell. Don't know if true but they had no reason to embellish.

 

[step.eng69]

bar2ski...the email I posted came from my high school friend. As I recall, he was also enrolled at Wilkes at the time.

I lived it. I was sandbagging at the Pierce street bridge unto the siren went off to evacuate. I lived in Kingston until 2004 and finally moved because of the flood scares we were having. I'm now safe in the mountains.

BigMatt, I also live in the mountains. flooding 's not a problem, but those pesky bear are!

 

[psuguy04]

Maybe, but that certainly wasn't the case for Wyoming Valley. The levee system in 2011 worked fairly well, at least compared to 1972, where it failed catastrophically.

100% agree with that--my comment had nothing to do with the Wyoming Valley.