WELCOME TO CORNING, NEW YORK: TROPICAL STORM AGNES FLOOD

[ThatMistyChick]

I wasn't even alive yet, but as a lifetime(for the mostpart) resident, seeing Corning like that made me cry.  It's almost hard to imagine Corning the way it was then, but it seemed great, other than the flood, of course. The June 17th festival and surroundings seemed like good times..and according to my parents and their friends, it was :) My condolences to any who lost loved ones, and my respect to all of you who lived through it...you deserve it :)

[jbvb1985]

I was 9yrs old on vacation, going to Niagara Falls. We were staying in Painted Post ? Motel. Early in the morning, water rushed under the door and awoke us. Went to 2nd floor and was rescued by amphibious truck/boats. Taken to Corning Research. Local residents took families in. Spent vacation in someone's home with only the clothes on our back, but dad, mom, brother and myself were safe. The older couple in the motel room next to ours was found dead. Makes 1 Think, where will you spend eternity?

[CarlosPinto88]

That's how a community is supose to be.....

[SIXSTRING63]

I was 9 years old and remember looking down from the hill where we were staying at a relatives up on 6th street and seeing water from mountain to mountain. Seems like yesterday to me.

[arborday54]

People just got up & helped, there wasn't any crybabies saying FEMA didn't help. They did start again! "Smile, things could be worse."

[Warjacki]

$1.40 for chicken in a box. Those were the days.

[peachfire100]

I was about 7 yrs old and we livedon pultney st. I remember being so scarred. But thanks to some guy witha boat, he recused us and we went to live at my grandparents in Lindey I believe.

[fligail]

cried so very painful still to watch mom and Dad are gone now 72 inches of water corner of steuben and second. But we stuck together and got it done. That was a very different Corning back then.

[edmckay2424]

I was 9, we luckily just moved up on North Hamilton street (HILL) right before the flood - we had LOTS of people staying in our house, I remember water melons washing up by Hornby Dr. Gov't handed out the great chicken and gravy in cans, riverside had all those paper rolls all over the place from the box factory..

[fejag58]

I lived in Lindley, N.Y. we had 7ft. of water on the first floor and and we were in the upstairs of the house. The house just upstream of us ripped in half and the elderly couple inside survived. I remember it well. I was in the eighth grade then.

[Goldenlillybeauty04]

omg! thts my school at 6:18!

[Goldenlillybeauty04]

haha wow..this town has defiantly changed!

[pc6954]

Lived on 5th Street at the time of the flood. As soon as the water retreated we went to Keuka Lake and spent the entire summer cleaning up the area there. Memorable summer indeed!

[JORIHUT]

We survived it! The Hutchins family.

[526freedom]

I was there, remember it well when the railroad bridge collapsed. People of all walks of life joined togeather as one, and helped each other throught it! :)

[longhorn1952]

I lived there during "The Flood." It was a mess for awhile but we had help from people all over and Corning came back, better than ever.

[DEAD4JZS]

I believe that's me on the left @ :18 in on the teeter-totter... :o)

[Dazerduck]

I remember that the Penn Central Railroad had brought in a flat car or two for the stage at that soundings event, as well as put a freshly built caboose at the site that people could walk through and check out.  You can see the 40' boxcars behind the band that were always parked along the CGW main plant off Tioga Avenue and Centerway. Man, it's hard to find much evidence today that anything like that ever happened...I was 15 and we lived on the Northside.

[vickifl22]

I lived in Florida but went back to visit my Mom right before it happened.  There are no words to describe this terrible event. Corning came back even better than before. What a great city and hardworking people.

[IMSA12]

Was it Big Daddy and the Blues Factory? I see Bob Lamoreaux at the 1:00 mark, my mother's library at 3:30, and a lot of familiar faces.

[1977Hopey]

@IMSA12

No way! Mr. Lamoreaux!!! I'll have to look for that. I had him as a teacher at CFA in 6th grade!

[ocripes]

I was at Soundings and remember that r and b band.