2011 Binghamton Flood, 5PM Revisit Update, Susquehanna River at Exchange St Bridge & Breaches

Made a return visit later in the afternoon at about 5PM, on Thursday Sept 08, 2011 to the Susquehanna River at Binghamton, NY to see how the flood walls and Exchange Street Bridge were holding up. Unfortunately conditions were worse than what had been observed earlier in the day at 8AM. It was also amazing to see that there were many more people out and about observing the river and flood conditions. Again positioned just below the junction of Conklin Road and Exchange Street, with camera pointed North/Northeast towards the north end of the Exchange Street Bridge. At 5PM the flood waters were now spilling four or five feet over the north span of the bridge (now about 450 feet across the river from the 5PM recording position.) Sadly, the flood walls on Conklin Road had also breached and a dozen or so more houses on Conklin Road were now badly flooded than observed at 8AM earlier that morning. According to the NOAA stats at 5PM the river should have gone down, but just the opposite was happening (the 5PM NOAA stats stated that the river level was observed at 23.77 feet, which on paper meant that the river was a few feet lower than had been at 8AM that day.) The video tells the story differently however. Ref Position: 42.093064, -75.908545. Also please see Ref Map URL: http://g.co/maps/xagpj for details. Shot on Droid X2 cell phone at 1280x720 resolution. This footage may be used without fee in any news broadcast or website with a byline credit: Courtesy greatseapenguin YouTube

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