pittsburgh flooding

whereas bangkokians are used to flooding, it's not such a frequent occurance back in my hometown of pittsburgh. my sister sent me a link to some of the photos here showing the recent flooding in pittsburgh after the remnants of hurricane ivan passed through. a whopping 30,000 homes were damaged in pennsylvania after the storm passed through, with pittsburgh's allegheny county accounting for a full third of the total.

here you can see the park downtown, called 'the point', completely underwater. the photo at top shows the point as it normally looks like.

a good shot showing how deep the flooding was- the water is not far off signs above a roadway which itself is usually well above the waterline.


a lot of boats broke free of their moorings and drifted downriver as the water levels rose . this boat is stranded on an offramp.

amazing shot of about a dozen boats, attached to their marina, all drifting together down the river.

ps- it seems like my posts lately are all about nature. any amateur psychologists out there wanna give this a shot??