Maryland DUers...Texas feels your pain

[Catherine Vincent]

I hope everyone stays high and dry. Be careful out there. :hi:

http://www.click2weather.com/weather/9438675/detail.html

200,000 Ordered Evacuated Ahead Of Pa. Flooding
10 Confirmed Dead in Regional Deluge

UPDATED: 2:28 pm CDT June 28, 2006

BALTIMORE -- Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area were ordered to evacuate their homes Wednesday because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, swelled by a record-breaking deluge that has killed at least 10 people across the Northeast.

The storm that drenched the nation's capital has swept through the Northeast, forcing thousands more from their homes, including more than 2,200 who fled from a rising Maryland lake. A section of interstate highway was washed away in New York state and least 10 deaths were blamed on the weather. Three people were missing.

After days of heavy rain and floods, the sun was shining in Washington, D.C., as the dwindling storm moved through New York and New England, but rivers were still rising in much of the region. Numerous highways were blocked by flooding and washouts, including more than 200 in Virginia. Virtually the entire state of Pennsylvania was under a flood watch or warning.

A dozen helicopters from the Pennsylvania National Guard, the state police and the U.S. Coast Guard plucked stranded residents from rooftops in Bloomsburg, Sayre and New Milford, and hundreds of National Guard personnel were preparing to distribute ice, water, and meals ready to eat.

"We don't have anywhere to go," evacuee Mehader Mekonne said Wednesday at a shelter in Montgomery County, Md.

The largest evacuation was ordered in an area surrounding Lake Needwood at Rockville, Md., which was approaching 25 feet above normal Wednesday, Montgomery County officials said.

[Olney Blue]

1. Thank you, cat girl. Luckily, my family has not been flooded.

:hi: