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Floods Receding - Thousands Homeless, 115 Die, In Northeast

Reel Number: 221629-24

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1959

Country: USA

Location: Buffalo,New York,Pennsylvania,Pittston

TC Begins: 07:06:26

TC Ends: 07:08:14

Duration: 00:01:48

Floods Receding - Thousands Homeless, 115 Die, In Northeast 07:06:31 High angle of flood waters around cars & buildings. People on sidewalk; cars & trucks thru axle deep water. POV from boat past For Sale sign on land, cars underwater. Metal girders toppled in water; collapsed cable drums of bridge in snow covered street on crushed cars. 07:07:18 Water eroding tall dirt bank of Susquehanna River in Pittston, Pennsylvania; flooding into underground mine. People at entrance to mine waiting for trapped miners. Families waiting. 07:07:48 Aerial over flooded city. Rowboat & motorboat down street past flooded cars; ice floating down river. Weather; Flooding; Natural Disasters; 1959;

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