Hurricane Ivan affected a lot of people and places. While we did not have any wind,
we did receive lots of rain. Downtown Pittsburgh received 7 inches of rain over a
period of roughly 24 hours. This is on top of the 4 inches of rain that the area
got earlier from Hurricane Francis. The area that we live in got 4-5 inches of rain from
Ivan. We did not have any flooding ourselves but there were a lot who did that
lived within 15-20 minutes from us. Any who lived near a creek or river got flooded.
The rain had started Friday early morning and continued the whole day.On my drive
home from work on Friday evening it took me almost 2 hours to get home as there
were road closures due to flooding and landslides already. These pictures are
from Saturday about 2:00 PM and the water level in the pictures has already receded
about 2 feet from the peak level.
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Senaca Valley School Video Clip
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The video clip is from Ashley's and Tyler's school playing fields. There is a little
creek that runs along the property. Tyler had just played soccer on those fields
on Thursday. Just click the play button to view the video again. I had to pan pretty
quickly as the camera was out of memory at this point.
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End of the road video clip
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The road just ended here and the water continued on. You can see the car in the middle
with just the roof showing.
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creek video clip
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This used to be just a creek.
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video clip
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Water, water and more water.
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These three pictures are from the same area, just different sections.
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The same for these three pictures.
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Another street ending in water.
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The creek was on this side of the trees before the flood.
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These pictures were from our digital camera. I will post more once we get the pictures from
our regular camera developed. I also might get more digital ones next weekend once the
water recedes just to show the difference.
