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I was just a little guy when this happened. I remember going to HerPak Meats, (Cameron St), Dad parked in the upper lot of Acme Markets (Hbg River Rescue Quarters) and they set up cattle chutes across Cameron and herded the live stock to the Acme building.
Formed: June 14, 1972 | Dissipated: June 23, 1972.
Agnes developed on June 14 from the interaction of a polar front and an upper trough over the Yucatán Peninsula. Agnes began its long life as an extratropical cyclone once cold air invaded its circulation late on June 22. The system looped across south-central Pennsylvania on June 23 and then looped across southern Ontario on June 25. Due to the significant effects, the name Agnes was retired in the spring of 1973.
In Pennsylvania, heavy rainfall was reported, with much of the state experiencing more than 7 inches of precipitation. Furthermore, a large swath of rainfall exceeding 10 inches was reported in the central part of the state. Overall, the rains peaked at 19 inches in the western portions of Schuylkill County. Due to the significant effects, the name Agnes was retired in the spring of 1973. Overall, more than 100,000 people were forced to leave their homes due to flooding. Some buildings were under 13 feet of water in Harrisburg. At the Governor's Mansion, the first floor was submerged by flood waters. Hundreds were trapped in their homes in Wilkes-Barre due to the overflowing Susquehanna River. At the historic cemetery in Forty Fort, 2,000 caskets were washed away, leaving body parts on porches, roofs, and in basements. In Luzerne County alone, 25,000 homes and businesses were either damaged or destroyed. Losses in that county totaled to $1 billion. At Chadds Ford Township, the Brandywine Creek crested at 16.5 feet, sending flood waters into the city. Water poured into the first floor of an art museum in Chadds Ford Township, which threatened at least $2.5 million in N.C. Wyeth paintings, though they were quickly moved to the upper floors. Along the Allegheny River, it was above flood stage in some low-lying areas. During the height of the storm, the river was rising at about 7 inches per hour. In Reading, the Schuylkill River reached a record flood of 31.5 feet.
More than one hundred Harrisburg YMCA campers and staff were evacuated using two CH-47 Chinook helicopters flown by the National Guard at Camp Shikellimy located downstream of DeHart Dam in Middle Paxton Township. Additionally, 36 Girl Scouts were rescued by state police while at a camp in York. A bridge collapsed in Danville, which caused two diesel locomotives and several freight cars to fall into a swollen creek. In the state of Pennsylvania, more than 68,000 homes and 3,000 businesses were destroyed. Due to the destroyed houses, at least 220,000 people were left homeless.The damage and death toll was the highest in Pennsylvania, with 50 fatalities and $2.3 billion in losses in that state alone. Willow Mill Amusement Park in Mechanicsburg was also damaged, including the Red Streaker, a defunct junior small wooden rollercoaster, which was severely damaged and had to be rebuilt.
On June 26, 1972, three news correspondents were killed in a helicopter crash in Harrisburg, where they had been covering the flooding. The victims were Del Vaughn of CBS News and Sid Brenner and Louis Clark of WCAU in Philadelphia, and the pilot, Mike Sedio. The helicopter lost its rotor some three hundred feet above the Capital City Airport, crashed, and exploded on the runway.
Following the storm, then-President of the United States Richard Nixon declared the states of Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York as disaster areas. Agnes had a devastating impact on the already-bankrupt railroads in the northeastern United States, as lines were washed out and shipments were delayed:
The Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL) estimated that damage between Binghamton and Salamanca, New York, amounted to $2 million. EL filed for Chapter 77 bankruptcy.
The Penn Central Railroad sustained nearly $20 million in damages
The resulting cost of repairing the damage was one of the factors leading to the creation of the federally financed Conrail.
Most pictures are photo's I took of pictures from collectors books from the 1972 flood.
Socially recognized modes of behavior are distorted on internet platforms. In this digital era reality is merged with fiction. I was interested in exploring how we present ourselves electronically in cyberspace (blogs, social platforms, fantasy games and emails). In face to face encounters information about who we are, codes of dress, mannerisms and personality can be read. Electronic communication has established a new range of Frames of interaction
Social networks shift the power balance between individuals and institutions. When any customer can easily publish their satisfaction or dismay to the world with the tap of a finger, the bar goes up for products and services.
Customers used to be willing to put up with long lines, mediocre products and complicated services because they didn't feel they had a choice.
In those days a company could provide an interface -- an interaction surface -- in a way that was convenient or cost-effective for itself -- and customers would force-fit themselves into the mold. If customers wanted the product or service they would assume the discomfort was inevitable.
Today, any company can easily offer highly customized services on the web to a global audience of potential customers. Customers have more choice than ever before. A new category of business activity called Vendor Relationship Management allows customers to specify their preferences and provide their own interaction surface. More and more, companies will have to compete for their place on that surface.
Journal of My Journey: Seamless Interaction in Virtuality and Reality With Digital Fabrication and Sensory Feedback Ⓒ 2022 Miguel Ying Jie Then, Ching Lui, Yvone Tsai Chen, Zin Yin Lim, Ping Hsuan Han, National Taipei University of Techonology
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The best bit about Pisa is watching people pose to have their photos taken as if they're holding up the leaning tower (or in some cases pushing it over).
By keeping the party leaders away from his marathon chaupals for direct interaction with people of east UP districts, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has made it clear that he is not in a mood to depend on anyone to make his 'Mission UP-2012' a success.
On Wednesday when he continued his journey through the villages of Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Jaunpur districts and held chaupals for direct communication with the rural masses till late in the evening.
Before leaving Mirzapur, he stayed in Mallepur village of Kone block for an hour and held a chaupal with villagers. Here, he also visited the house of a poor weaver and tried hands on his loom. While operating the loom, he continued interacting with weavers to know about their problems.
From this village, he reached Chandrapur Bind locality of Koilara village in Gopiganj area of Bhadohi district to hold a chaupal. He held similar chaupals in Devnathpur and at a slum in Korauth area located on the outskirts of Bhadohi township.
After knowing the problems of local dwellers at all these places, he asked them to get united for bringing a change in the government for proper industrialisation and employment generation.
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