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Flood — Carbon, PA

Aug 28, 2011

Irene produced heavy flooding rain, tropical storm force wind gusts with hundreds of thousands of outages, moderate tidal flooding along the Delaware River and one flooding related death in Eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend of August 27th and 28th. Moderate stream and river flooding occurred in the Poconos and Lehigh Valley and moderate to major river flooding occurred in southeast Pennsylvania. For many places in southeastern Pennsylvania, it was the worst creek and river flooding since Hur

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 343395). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Carbon, PA

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