Record Flooding, Western New York State

Heavy rains have created some of the worst flooding in recent memory in the Southern Tier of Western New York State.

Governor Paterson declared a state disaster emergency for Erie, Cattaragus and Chautauqua counties after severe storms struck Western New York Sunday night through Monday morning.

The main road in the Village of Gowanda was closed after several feet of flood water rushed through the center of the village, flooding basements and leaving tons of mud behind.

The storms claimed at least one life in Gowanda, when a man was swept away by fast moving water.

In Silver Village mobile homes were damaged or destroyed by raging flood waters.

All of the material in this video was captured and submitted by YouNews citizen journalists to WKBW at http://www.wkbw.com/younews

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[dave777blaster]

gulf of Mexico oil spill

1300 tornadoes

epic one in a1000 year flooding across Eastern USA

wiping out most of the crops

The Economy of USA was in terrible shape but now it's completely blown out

Social Assistance  and social security may well be terminated.

[kingofforza]

1:17 is Hinsdale New york

[kingofforza]

i live in portville.....the river was 17 feet above level......roughly 10 feet from breeching the dike system

[jason4852]

yea i live here it was the shits.

[rachaeljonas2]

OMG...that is my dads hometown

[GolfHockey01]

thank you very much younews! i will go check it out next time im there!