Wednesday, June 28, 2006

The Great Johnstown (N.Y.) Flood

We had some serious flooding today in Johnstown. Several streets were made impassable by the overflowing Cayadutta Creek. I took this photo of some folks stranded on the porch of their house:

    

It sucks to be the owner of that red car, huh? I wonder if there's any danger of contamination because of the many industrial sites that were affected by flooding. The former Karg Bros. tannery site (which is right behind the house in the photo) has been cleaned up, but how many other, smaller, as-yet-unremediated toxic sites got a rinsing today?

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