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‘Tremendous damage’: The St. Patrick’s Day flood of 1936 devastated Pa.
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
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A reporter who took an aerial tour of the damage said he saw “considerable wreckage.”
Damage was tremendous in Easton, Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Williamsport, Bloomsburg and Sunbury.
The elements that caused the flood that hit Pa. March 17-20 that year started early in the year.
A bus moves down Vaughn Street in Harrisburg during the March 1936
flood. (Source unknown)
According to the book, “Great Floods of Pennsylvania” by William H. Shank, “The winter of 1935-36 had been one of the most severe that Pennsylvania had seen for years. Huge quantities of snow fell in January and February throughout the state, and prevailing low temperatures preserved it well.”