Super 8mm footage of Tropical Storm Agnes flooding in June 1972 - Wilkes-Barre, Kingston PA vicinity

Super 8mm footage of before and aftermath of Tropical Storm Agnes flooding in June 1972.

Hurricane Agnes (June 1972) was the costliest hurricane to hit the United States at the time, causing an estimated $2.1 billion in damage. The effects of Agnes were widespread, from the Caribbean to Canada, with damage was heaviest in Pennsylvania, where Agnes was the state's wettest tropical cyclone. The most significant effects, by far, occurred in Pennsylvania, mostly due to intense flooding. The hurricane severely flooded the Susquehanna River and the Lackawanna River causing major damage to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton metropolitan area. Due to the significant effects, the name Agnes was retired in the spring of 1973.

At the time of Agnes, we lived in Dallas, PA. On the day of the first flooding, my brother, JD, and I went downtown to the Susquehanna River levee on the Kingston side to help sandbag. We were there when the evacuation sirens went off. We both took some Super 8mm film footage that day. In the aftermath of the flood, our parents, Jack & Evelyn Miller, took additional movies of the devastation and beginning of the recovery/rebuilding process.

Recently, I transferred our old home movies to computer and created this short film containing all of our Agnes flood footage.

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