Abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the sprawling megalopolis of Cleveland Akron would not exist. The river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio, and so man came and continued coming until today nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigatable stream, a water supply and as a suewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga. With us is the professor of history with the university of cincinnati and the coauthor of where the river burned. Physically, where are you located and explain what happens 50 years ago this month. Hi, steve, thanks for having me. We are sitting at the near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the can cuyahoga reaches lake erie. But
His machine. Without the Cuyahoga River, the metropolis would not exist, the river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the reserves in the 1780s the river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio and, so, man came and continues coming, until today, nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex command has used the river as men have always use rivers. The flow has been put to work as a water supply and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere, is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga . Joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradling and the coauthor of where the river burned the carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland. Let me be been by asking physically where youre located and explained what happened 50 years ago this month. Thank you for having me. We are sitting near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, where the cuyahoga reaches lake erie so you can see over my shoulder one of
Lake erie after a 100mile twisting and turning journey from its headwaters, is an exhaustive stream. Abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the spreading megalopolis of clevelandakron would not exist. The river was the reason for settling in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio so man came and nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga . Joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradling, a professor of history at the university of cincinnati and the coauthor of where the river burned carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland. Let me begin, though, by asking, physically, where are you located and explain what happened 50 years ago this mo
The past hour. So here we will zoom in on the city and this is a loop over last hour. We have had lightening and thunder and we are just experiencing heavy rain outside our door. We will go north as far as the poconos mountains and we have a Flash Flood Warning until 5 30 in the morning for Carbon County and Monroe County and then we will go down to lancaster county, and we are clearing out of there for time being but there is plenty of rain in Chester County and New Castle County delaware and as far east as mount laurel and see then are storm activity there and it looks like heavier rain is falling in New Castle County, around middletown, dover delaware. State fair in harring town, continues today. So 71 degrees is where we are in philadelphia with a 5mile an her breeze out of the east north east and 90 percent relative humidity n surprise with all that rain. 5 55 is your sunrise time as these days start to get a little bit more note iably shorter. In weather by numbers we will go wit
Out in hot ingham, pa, chester county, dime size hail. Currently watching the cluster south of trenton. See the thunderstorms firing up ice of philadelphia, moving pretty quickly but it is brink withing it gusts up to 40 Miles Per Hour, there is possibility still see small size hail. Torrential downpours in this little cluster of storms, so, watch for that, as you move into western burlington county. Youre going to be running into this, and we have seen actually got another tweet from somebody else saying that it is like a light show out there. Across some of these counties, so just keep that in mind. You are going get slowed down by the storms this morning slight risk actually until the storms move out of here, in terms of Severe Weather potential. And we have already had downpours, they are currently on radar gusty wind, currently occurring with those, and even, yes some small size hail as we mention reported to us from one of the eyewitness weather watchers. We lynn it to get report