Raredon River News Today

Homes. what happened is we had flash flooding. all the streets filled fast. look at how many homes have water in them. talking hundreds of residents there alone effected by that, water over top of the railroad tracks heading to the other side. looks like thats staging spot for police and additional rescue boats driving through the area. thats just one river. the rareton river in new jersey is similar, that will be cresting later today. all these rivers are near all time records, if not all time ...

This is the schuylkill river, big one through delaware and towards philadelphia and the raredon river in new jersey. cresting as i speak and today. thats where rescues are taking place like this. the town i lived in, the river hit an all time record crest a block from my house. whats left is a muddy mess. im looking at this water here. after this water recedes, theres going to be three to four inches of muck behind this. that will be in homes too. >> we dont know the exact locations of images we...

With warming of the planet, were tending to get more extreme weather events, whether in the west with droughts getting worse and fire seasons getting longer or with extreme rainfall events. there are recent studies how tropical systems are stalling out more, not moving as quickly. wasnt the case with ida. this storm moved 20 to 25 miles per hour through the region. but as the planet gets warmer, theres warm water vapor in the air, more moisture in the air. when we have storms, they can produce m...

Retrieval ifrts at our brook at benson and main. we had witness accounts of two individuals, young adults, one male and female may have swept into the brook, into the river. we have divers and firefighters presently determining the best course of action to try to see if they can identify individuals. i want to say i hope not, or retrieve bodies, hoping against home the individuals are found safe. we were told from people that they were very good swimmers, the individuals that identified the peop...

Rivers that feeds this creek, crested four to five hours ago. later in the day, this water will start going down, but you can see where the river is supposed to be, where the bridges span and see how far left that water is. banks to the right side of the screen held, banks to the left side, thats one, two blocks inland that flooding is taking place. stephanie, yeah. the bottom line with climate change, yeah, go ahead. >> if those buildings were looking at now have one to two feet of standing wat...

>> water will flow to the ocean through gravity. some rivers move quicker, recede faster than others. if we looked at the same picture tomorrow, that water is back in the banks inside that river and all the homes would be dry. all these people, like people of louisiana in one weeks time, their lives have been turned completely upside down, financial stability turned upside down. not to mention schools just started. all these parents had kids for the most part at home with covid. schools are canc...

Right now, two people are unaccounted for and swept into the river and divers are looking for them. is that just two people total unaccounted for, everyone lse is safe? >> the challenge we have in days after the storms and days that will follow will be going through reports, having individuals call us. every storm we receive phone calls, and we do all our due diligence. we contact family members. most times we find out an individual may have come out and are accounted for. right now what we have...

Portion of the river was, then looks like it carved out another section of it from before. again, this is over pretty much downtown philadelphia now, just looking at the latest river gauges for philadelphia, this is the schuylkill river. right now, the river is at 16 feet. the all time record is 18 feet so it is short of that. you get the idea. the flood of record for this area that youre looking at here, you have to go back to hurricane floyd and hurricane irene. those are the comparisons to th...

Jersey. yesterday i thought maybe north of that. thought woo would see scenes in the poconos or cat skills, lower hudson valley. yesterday, storms shifted more south. instead of pictures like this out of those areas, it was more south of there, north of philadelphia and northern and central jersey, into connecticut. these pictures, if anyone is familiar with philadelphia area, king of prussia malis a famous mal. thats not far from where these pictures are. the mall is safe. all this water you ar...

This is one of the urban search and rescue teams involved in this. i dont know if it is local police or one of the usar teams. this is on the schuylkill river which bill has been talking about, steph. basically youre looking at it is hard to believe somebody that once worked in philadelphia and covered news, covered floods involving the river we could be approaching the records we are approaching, breaking records that go back 100, 150 years as far as the height of the river. if you were to look...