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Shades of January's flood fiascoes were abound this past week. After a partial combing of Western Pennsylvania, damage assessment from federal, state, and local disaster-relief officials have shown that these mid-July floods claimed two lives, lead low roads and bridges to their destruction, and terribly affected hundreds of homes.
Assess the Mess
A representative of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency stated that it could take several days before there could be any comprehensive, thorough tally of the weekend floods. The floodings were severe enough to prompt Governor Ridge to request federal aid for 10 counties.
 Beginning in the counties of Jefferson, Clarion, Crawford and Mercer, the damage assessments will continue on in Armstrong, Blair, Clearfield, Greene, Indiana, and Venango.
Evidently, the floods did not spare the owners of marinas along the Allegheny River either. Nearly 1,000 feet of dock, along with about 90 boats, were washed away last Friday night at the Doc of the Bay Marina, according to Manager Earl Faust.
Comey Quotes
In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, John Comey, a spokesman for PEMA, said that the floodings "...[clearly] caused substantial damage to public and private property, [and] in terms of overall impact, the magnitude and severity of this flood is not at the level of [the January floods]. But in a neighborhood- by- neighborhood, block-by-block sense, the places where it hit was just as intense."
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