On the way to Rochester, we drove through a couple of areas that had suffered serious flooding - the worst in 60 years, from the Susquehanna River, in the Southern Tier. This is a photograph of a bookstore on Front Street in the town of Owego, alongside the river. Apparently every store and house in town had water in the first floor! As we drove down a few streets, there was a pile of water soaked rubbish in front of every house and business. What a terrible tragedy. This is a used bookstore, and you can see on one side of the building an enormous pile of water soaked books. This is just unimaginable.
That is so tragic.. I am grateful that all I had to endure was loss of electricity and running water for a week.
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