Delaware River Flood June 2006

[TheTomTomRUN]

i was at the K-MART during the time and got traped there

and the best western there was completly floded

[KMaxFloods]

There is a website called focusonfloods that is offering an online survey to help understand how people in the Delaware River Basin feel about flooding. This will help with a flood safety and awareness campaign. it takes just a couple of minutes. You can win 500.00

[Paulstathis1992]

hahahaha me and my dad hit 150 mph on that straight away on 84 in his lexus is-f =)

[tricharlie]

Thank NYC and their spilling reservoirs for a few extra feet in flood crests. If they'd lower those reservoirs and leave some meaningful safety voids, everyone on the river would be less afraid...

[jgong8638]

Actually this is certainly not true. It sounds good, but if you compare the volume of water that actually comes from these resovoirs during the worst floods(Cubic feet Per Second) to the CFS of the River far downstream during these floods, it is like a teaspoon's worth in a 5 gallon bucket. It was very disappointing that politicians kept this "argument" going even though it was well known to be untrue. It made them look good to their constituents. To me it makes them look like frauds.

[tricharlie]

Sorry -- you've got your facts wrong. During this flood over 100 billion gallons of water spilled over the 3 "Delaware" reservoirs (DRM Charts). The DRBC's own study showed that the reservoirs contributed as much as 6 feet to flood crests on the East Branch alone, as did the NWS/NOAA and Ruggles studies. Hard science here, not "politics".

[jgong8638]

What I said is fact. I said CFS far downstream. You're talking about much closer to the headwaters (East Branch). A flood downstream (Easton to Trenton) is a completely different Animal. That is what our politicians were blaming on those ponds. Check the flow rates and convert CFS to gallons at Trenton. You'll see what I mean 100B is nothing there. I don't argue the effect way, way upstream can be dramatic.. But, our politicians were talking about S.E. Pa. not N.E.

[tricharlie]

I see your point. However, the DRBC's exhaustive study covered reservoir impact on flood crests as far down as Trenton. Fact is that a few inches of additional crest can mean the difference between flood/no flood to a lot of people. Safety voids would be good for everybody, albeit to varying degrees. The mismanaged NYC reservoirs are a contributor to the problem, and there are PA and NJ politicians who deny this and sell out to NYC. That's the dirty side of back-room politics for you....

[ruralwannabe]

This was mismanagement by the Army Corps of Engineers who are supposed to time the release of upstream waters from dams so this doesn't happen. Also, when your govt votes to protect a wetland, remember it is to prevent this from happening.

[becknerzz14]

i went through that flood. it was horrible. i hated it. my house got flooded

[GhostWatersMedia]

Hey Ryan, I was in Dingmans for the 3rd flood. Amazing. I spoke with an individual who commented on the floods. Although there was controversy about the management (or mismanagement) of the dams on the upper branches of the Delaware, rivers naturally, have always, and will continue to always, flood. So why build on a floodplain? Although their perspective was simple I felt it was a very lucid argument.

[butterflybri99]

wow i live right in PJ nd the school bus garage was flooded lol

[xhopefull11x]

omg I remember this. This was right by my house. Sad memories :(

[BroadStBully82]

i would've rode that inflatable chair

[TonyAirlines]

There goes lambertville...

[BucksPagesDotCom]

Amazing, this is becoming very common anymore. I live in newportville and the sediment levels are very high all up and down both the neshaminy creek and river. Numerous times this has been brought up at council meetings but mainly to stop home building in flood zones. Keep your video camera battery charged.

[bls2177]

the blowup chair adds some comic relief, but yea, this river has flooded every year for the last 2 or 3. lol it sucks

[huntnbigracks]

This looks just like the flooding we had in Stanton De on the Red Clay Creek in a neighborhood called Glenville its all gone now completely wiped out!!!!

[xXamberxxloveXx]

GAH! lol

wen u went past the cemetary...my house was on the other side of the bridge by "the riverview inn"

we were evacuated :\

[N4rut0Fr3ak]

my god i live in bear delaware!!!!!!!!!

[justalittlekitten196]

Is the same flooding that hit Marshallton, Stanton etc with an eight foot wall of water?

[BroadStBully82]

nah, that was a hurricane. remember?

[tvandersloot]

Great Vid! We just traveled through your area on Saturday -- BEAUTIFUL!! (We stayed at Best Western and ate at "The Grill")-- Does this area flood like this regularly?? How do people and business keep going??

[ryanbalton]

The area hadn't flooded badly since a terrible flood in the 50s, but in the past five years it has flooded three times.

[rct4905]

Ryan, back when you wrote this, it has actually flooded 3 times in the past 18 months of 2005 through June 2006 didnt it?

[cale2dabob]

yea it has

[corky238971]

@ryanbalton Up in WestFall yesterday we had a flash flood on our road. I'm not surprised if we get another flood.

[koryhand]

haha yaeh seems all kinds of storms or in this case floods my mom and i and bro are always on vacation lol wen (this 2006 flood) i dont remember were we were but we wernt here lol i live in sparrowbush outside port and wen we got bak the roads were all mest up but most was cleand didt know it got that bad tho lol

<3becs

[subwaylex]

"Convention on the PROHIBITION of MILITARY or any other HOSTILE USE of ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES APPROVED by the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the UNITED NATIONS on 10 DECEMBER 1976". HAARP is the Project.

The United States will be destroyed as planned.

[iamadumbich123455432]

yah we get a flood like every year though and nothing bad happens.

[Louie2994]

holy crape. i live in montague and i had no idea that the water got that high. i did'nt go see the flood.

[ibook133]

Floating dumpster? FREE RIDE DOWNSTREAM WOOO!! Yea, my girlfriend at the time and i actually drove across the few open bridges from PA to NJ into trenton and explored around to see what was going on. The day before (this was at night) all of the metal grate deck bridges were closed along bucks and philadelphia county borders with NJ. Pretty crazy.

[JamPak420]

that is not delaware I live there and we have no mountains here and there is no river only a bay this is a movie of something else

[ryanbalton]

Look on a map. The Delaware River extends from central New York down along the NY/Pennsylvania and New Jersey/Pennsylvania borders, ending in the bay between Delaware and NJ. en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Delaware_River

[Paulstathis1992]

@ryanbalton lololol jampak420 is a retard

[Jberger7]

yea i remember that flood it hit port jervis, and matamoras pretty hard

[Sunspray]

hey, I think you go to my school (DVHS). You're name sounds familiar.

Anyway, nice vid.