Flood!!! The town view
June 30th, 2006 by Max
Strangely, my Dad was affected a little by the flood. They turned off electric to areas that were flooded. I had to ask Linda to go look by his house because I hadn’t been able to get him all day. Later his phone went right to voicemail, so no phone no light. A lot of lower Johnson City was flooded on the North side. It rained so much, the water that ran off the hillside just pooled! It litterally flooded in the middle of JC.
Here in Sidney, fully half the town was underwater. We have two major industries here. MeadWestvaco was closed for three days. I’m on call! But the water only flooded our road, not our building. My friend Bob over at Amphenol said that their datacenter was totally destroyed. Their plant, which is right in the middle of town, maybe a half mile from the riverbank, was completely engulfed.
There was a house in Conklin that floated down the Susquehanna. It was on National news. All the politicians were here of course. Pataki had to leave the South Washinton St bridge area in a hurry, because the water was overflowing it. I heard, but did not see, that the 25′ flood wall at Court and Tompkins was overrun with water. They evaquated downtown and Lourdes. Linda has had to work doubley hard and at different hospitals. I’ve never seen them clear Lourdes, but it turned out to be a good idea.
The road to Albany litterally washed away at Unadilla. 2 Truck drivers died. Both directions lanes were cut by a 20′ gap of a stream that was unnoticeable last week. The alternate route (Rt 7) was flooded. People got off the exit and slept in the McDonalds parking lot.
We paid our hourly employees today, in the McDonalds parking lot.
There’s still a curfew from 6 pm to 6 am tonight.
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