After a day of shooting property damage from the near-constant three days of rain we shifted into another gear to show damage of another sort. People, and how they are hurt by the nine inches of rain became the focus.
Click here to see the York Dispatch staff's view of the flooding.
Flooding is so bad here that old timers are saying it's the worst flooding since-- you got it-- Hurricane Agnes in 1972.
Matthew and Tabitha Walker, Manchester, top right, were forced to spend Wednesday night in a hotel because of flooding to their home, but their two cats weren't allowed. The Walkers and a few other pet owners took their animals to the York County SPCA for temporary shelter. The Walkers visited Ebony and Star, above, Thursday morning.
Alexandria Franklin, 17, York City, left, kisses two-month old daughter Atizana Maxfield at the Manchester Township building Thursday, September 8, 2011, where a temporary Red Cross shelter is operating. Franklin's other daughter, Jaihree Maxfield, 1, also spent the night.
The water treatment plant in Springettsbury Township was flooded Thursday when the nearby Codorus Creek overflowed its banks, closing the road, and nearly covering up the North Sherman Street bridge. On Thursday evening, when the water level receded, neighbors ventured out to see the damage.
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