Word: susquehanna
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lost his popularity with the folks back home, who still revere him for coming to the rescue of Wilkes-Barre after it was virtually destroyed by the raging Susquehanna River during Hurricane Agnes in 1972. After hearing about the disaster at midnight in Washington, he flew home aboard then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's personal helicopter, and declared: "This is going to be one Flood against another." He soon learned that the most critical need was for helicopters to rescue marooned victims. He phoned a top official at the Pentagon and bellowed: "I want those helicopters...
...days after the storm, in typically bravura fashion, he announced: "I have ordered the Army Corps of Engineers not to permit the Susquehanna to rise another inch." The river rose no further. Afterward, Flood steered about $1 billion in disaster relief to his district. No wonder, then, that a constituent described him as "the next closest thing...
Alternate Federal Member of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission...
...success led him back home to "York State," as he liked to call the 55 upstate New York counties, to write his loving chronicles of the region, including Listen for a Lonesome Drum, Dark Trees to the Wind and a novel, Genesee Fever. Carmer also published volumes on the Susquehanna and the Hudson rivers, which he fought to defend against pollution...
...beckons from the west. New Jersey gives way to Delaware for a few miles, and then Maryland, the prettiest stretch on all of 1-95. If you've left early in the morning it will be just getting on toward dusk by the time you hit Maryland, and the Susquehanna River is lovely and smoky. Hills nonchalantly verge off into farms and thick woods. The land doesn't look patched together, but of a piece...