Photos from Allegany, Steuben counties and Pennsylvania; County Road 36 between Jasper and Canisteo is closed until further notice
Our readers have sent in and given permission to share videos and photos above and beyond the work we gathered with the Wellsville and Hornell Sun.
John Anderson appeared on Fox News and The Weather Channel today.
He was interviewed by the Associated Press, ABC, NBC and CBS. Photos and videos by the Sun and our readers were provided to several national outlets.
More photos and a gallery after this video. South Canisteo video by Sarah Piguet, dog rescue by Josh Potter:
Here is a photo from Nancy Wyant of the damage at Jasper-Troupsburg Central School. After so much work was done on the school from the last flooding, this happened:
In the photo below, State Route 36 between Canisteo and Jasper in Steuben County is closed until further notice because of debris in the road way and this bridge is out just before Gravel Run Road. Photo from Steuben County Firewire.
This is from the Weather Channel website:
(5:37 p.m. ET) ‘They Had To Bring In The Military’
While waters are starting to recede in some areas, parts of northern Pennsylvania and southern New York in particular will have a long cleanup.
New York Gov. Kathy Holchul declared a state of emergency for the entire state.
John Anderson, a resident of Wellsville, New York, who reported today for the Wellsville Sun, described the day there in an interview with The Weather Channel:
“First thing that happened, there’s so many volunteers. This is a rural area south of Buffalo on the border. So it’s a two state, five county, six county area. A lot of volunteers for the fire department, the ambulance corps, they went out, they were saving people, they were saving animals.
All of this while hundreds of bales of hay are going by, sheds, trees are uprooted. You could see a lot of debris from people’s basements just going by.
You knew the severity of it.
Roads just started flooding so quick you couldn’t pass through, but eventually … it got so much they had to bring in the military.”
This shows where the hay bales ended up in Canisteo in a photo by Meg Bradley-Horey.
You can see the devastation as residents look on:
Here is a portion of the reporting by the Associated Press by writers David Sharp, Michael Hill, Mark Scolforo and Patrick Whittle. (see the full story HERE)
First responders launched high-water and helicopter rescues of people trapped in cars and homes in rural New York and Pennsylvania as heavy rain from the remnants of Debby slammed the Northeast with intense floods.
The worst of the flash flooding so far in New York was occurring in villages and hamlets in a largely rural area south of the Finger Lakes, not far from the Pennsylvania border.
In Steuben County, which borders Pennsylvania, officials ordered the evacuation of the towns of Jasper, Woodhull and part of Addison, and said people were trapped as floodwaters made multiple roads impassable.
In the hamlet of Woodhull, a rain-swollen creek ran so ferociously that the water overtopped a bridge. Area resident Stephanie Waters said parts of sheds, branches and uprooted trees were among the debris that slammed into the span.
“Hearing the trees hit the bridge was scary,” she said.
Fire Chief Timothy Martin said everybody was safe in Woodhull, but “every business in Woodhull is damaged.”
John Anderson said he watched the floodwaters come up quickly, overwhelming some vehicles in Canisteo, in Steuben County, and nearby in Andover, in Allegany County. “It’s not a slow rise. It’s been very fierce,” said Anderson, who was providing dispatches to The Wellsville Sun. He said he watched people’s belongings get carried away by the raging water.
A link to our initial reporting with other photos, click HERE
A slide show of 18 photos from photos and videos:
