Thursday, June 29, 2006

Disaster at the Great Confluence


My heart goes out to all my people in the Binghamton area who are coping with this week's major floods. Above is a stunning aerial photo of downtown - you can find it and many more photos at the Press and Sun Bulletin's web site. Other photos show the Washington Street pedestrian bridge submerged up to its deck. Hang in there, and hopefully you will all be able to move on and clean up with relative ease.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for your concern, Roman. It's been over a week since the flood, and things are getting back to normal for many people. My Mom's garage and basement got a foot or two of water in them, and my boyfriend and I spent the better part of that week at her house helping her bail out and clean up. She was really lucky, though....

Other people (especially in Kirkwood and Conklin) have lost everything. It's kind of depressing sometimes, but the community has really rallied around to help out. Funny what it takes to bring people together, eh?