This week marks ten years since flood waters from Tropical Storm Lee left residents in Owego displaced, without electricy, and scrambling to save their homes. WSKG is sharing some of their stories.

"Our soils aren’t that deep and are full of rocks and clay - if you try to dig around here, it's pretty difficult. So our soils saturate rapidly.”

In the wake of the September floods in our region, WSKG organized a Flood Relief Telethon with commercial radio and television stations resulting in a monumental effort. Together, our community helped raise over $250,000 in a single day. We are grateful to everyone who helped during this tragedy.

“Not fixing something that you know needs to be fixed now, because the money just doesn’t allow for it at this moment."

"They lost it once and they knew what it was like and they didn't want to lose it again.”

Contributions from the CommunityWSKG put a call out to the people of the region impacted by flooding in 2011.We’ve compiled those submissions of stories,…

"I’ve toured the plant, there’s a huge wall there and they say it’s ready for a thousand year flood. So I’m pretty confident. There’s redundant systems, things are behind concrete walls. So there may be minor destruction but nothing like happened on September 2011."

"I was like, 'oh my gosh, oh my gosh, what do I do?'"

“That doesn’t exist. We don’t have a lot of affordable housing anywhere in Delaware County.”