Posted on 07/05/2025 7:29:35 AM PDT by DallasBiff
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the historic, deadly flooding spawned by Hurricane Agnes and its remnants in June 1972 across the eastern U.S., including the hardest-hit states of Pennsylvania and New York.
Agnes was one of the largest June hurricanes to ever roam the Atlantic Basin. According to the National Hurricane Center, its circulation spanned about 1,150 miles in diameter.
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The lefties will jump on this tragedy saying it is climate change.
My prayers go out to those who died and to their families.
For those that grew up on the Susquehanna, Agnes will never be forgotten.
Yes, it was awful out there. I was in Western PA and while not as bad as the Susquehanna, the Allegheny and Monongahela both flooded as well doing considerable damage even this far West. That was one hell of a storm.
It’s a good thing we didn’t have Global Warming(TM) then. ;~))
We must have gotten a piece of it in New England, but I don’t remember the storm. What I do remember is a TV spot asking for people to donate relief funds afterwards. It said “Agnes started small. Then she went to town.” I think it showed a glass which started with a few drops of water being poured into it, then a big pitcher which was just turned upside down on top of the glass.
Hurricane Agnes flooded out my graduation from Penn State…I got in on one of the last buses to make it into State College but none of my family could get there. James Michener was our graduation speaker, glad I got to attend but bummed my mother didn’t after all she sacrificed for my tuition
I still see the marks left by the flood on the high cliffs beside the Susquehanna when I drive up that way
I was on Long Island for Agnes and I don’t recall it being that bad. They talked it up before and then the wind blew a little bit, subsided, then blew a little bit again then gone.
I remember, as a kid, coming back from visiting the grandparents in the Midwest. Driving thru VA, the rivers were higher than I’d ever seen.
I was on a good date, watching “The Godfather” at the Movie theater. Heard it outside... heavy rain, a gully washer.
Whenever I wish to remember that date, I I look up hurricane dates, calculate that area that we grew up around.,, And Bob’s your uncle! Kind of an exciting date actually for a HS summertime date in ‘72!
Must be fake news. They never had big storms back before climate change kicked in. /sarc
It flattened Biloxi, Mississippi and devastated the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with landslides and flooding.
Lies! All LIES!!
Donald Trump wasn’t president then.
I had just completed my junior year at college and was staying with mom & dad in Chester County, PA for my summer job. Downingtown got hit really bad with the Brandywine Creek flooding downtown. But it was nothing compared to other areas.
I just don’t understand how such storms could have possibly happened before man heated up the world with that noxious CO2.
Climate change will save us.
Scranton/Wilkes Barre had terrible flooding of low area’s. My cousin’s business, several store totally flooded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Flood
I remember a story about Congressman Dan Flood (ironic name) calling a general at the Pentagon demanding helicopter support for his home district (Wilkes-Barre, PA). Supposedly the general initially demurred until Flood reminded him of his seat on the House Appropriations Committee. The Army provided the helicopters.
I remember sandbagging the Allegany River dike in Olean, New York during Agnes. My folks owned a home in the Seneca Heights neighborhood of Olean, and we spent several days rowing supplies across the flooded area to folks on higher ground.
Back then, I was working for the Dems during the primary (a memory that still embarrasses me) and got jumped by three of the opposing team just as I was closing the office after a celebratory drinking bout with a couple of colleagues. Nothing like slinging sandbags with eyes swollen shut and a head the size of a bushel basket. LOL
I lived just outside DC and remember it well! Although we did not have the horrible experience other places had.
I remember that! After pulling a child from a swollen stream a news reporter ran up, jammed a microphone in the child’s face and said loudly..”HOW DOES IT FEEL KNOWING YOUR PARENTS ARE DEAD!”
Do you remember what Michener spoke about ?
I remember Agnes. I was a kid living in the DC area at the time.
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