Tag: Bloomsburg
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Flood Insurance Basics
Read more: Flood Insurance BasicsThe National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a somewhat misunderstood system. According to the FEMA website (who runs the NFIP): “The NFIP is a Federal program created by Congress to mitigate future flood losses nationwide through sound, community-enforced building and zoning ordinances and to provide access to affordable, federally backed flood insurance protection for property owners … Participation in the NFIP is based on an agreement between local communities and the Federal Government that states that if a community will adopt and enforce a floodplain management ordinance to reduce future flood risks to new construction in Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs), the…
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Current Flood Resources for Victims and Donors
Read more: Current Flood Resources for Victims and DonorsWhile the clean up from the 2011 Flood continues in Bloomsburg, it is helpful to once again alert everyone to the various needs and resources in town. The Bloomsburg Chapter of the American Red Cross has provided the following information. If you have additional items that would be helpful to include (or changes to the information), please email or comment below. Give Blood For information on the nearest donation time and place or to schedule a donation, please call 1‐800‐RED‐CROSS or 1‐800‐432‐8045. Office on Aging Help People over 60 may call 1-570-784‐9272 for flood‐related help. In addition, there is an…
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Technology Tools for Flood Alerts
Read more: Technology Tools for Flood AlertsBecause the community is in the middle of a massive flood clean-up and recovery effort, no one wants to think about the next time high waters will affect the area. However, when one looks at the data, odds indicate that Bloomsburg will be faced with significant flooding again. Here is the data related to flooding levels along the Susquehanna River near Bloomsburg since 2004 (flood stage at Bloomsburg is 19 feet): September 19, 2004 – 27.1 feet. January 15, 2005 – 20.5 March 30, 2005 – 21.4 feet April 4, 2005 – 25.1 feet June 28, 2006 – 28.6 feet…
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Columbia County Homes Destroyed Down from Over 1,000 to 141
Read more: Columbia County Homes Destroyed Down from Over 1,000 to 141There is no doubt that Columbia County suffered some of the worst damage in the Northeast from the 1-2 sucker punch that was Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. Nonetheless, current statistics are much less severe than previously thought. Rita Inklovitch, executive director of the Bloomsburg Chapter of the Red Cross, provided the following revised statistics for Columbia County as of Oct. 2, 2011. The numbers are dramatically different from the damage that was initially suspected, with an initial estimate of over 1,000 homes destroyed in the County, and another 2,300 homes damaged reported by the Press Enterprise (9-16-11). The…
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Volunteer Information
Read more: Volunteer InformationFor the weekend of October 1, 2011. AGAPE is working hard to find new volunteers to help with several initiatives over the weekend. They will be seeking people who can help get any debris out on curbs by Sunday night, people willing to go door to door to do cleanup assessments, and to hand out lists of donated supplies.Those who need help should call AGAPE at 317-2210. Also if you have box fans, please consider donating them.
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Altering the Rhetoric
Read more: Altering the RhetoricIn Friday’s Press Enterprise is a letter to the editor that casts a very critical view on town and University leaders in the days following the Bloomsburg Flood. The letter, written by a Bloomsburg resident titled, “Town’s attitude angers West Ender,” works to explain how it feels to live in the western part of town — to be branded “west enders” perhaps. “You think we are fools who only have ourselves to blame for getting flooded. We choose to live in the West End so we got exactly what we deserved, right? We are uneducated and obviously not as “intelligent”…