flash floods

While the county can use FEMA public assistance to repair schools and other publicly-funded institutions, its residential neighbors are not eligible.

Parts of the Southern Tier are again under a state of emergency due to rain and flooding. Tioga County is under a state of emergency due to flash flooding from the overnight rain that are the result of Hurricane Florence.

Fellow farmers helped Erik Landowne at Blue Heron Farm quickly harvest an onion crop before it could begin to rot.

People are still displaced following recent flash floods in New York and Pennsylvania. The Red Cross of the Southern Tier said they sheltered nearly 140 people in several affected counties. The Red Cross is distributing recovery materials and food at Five Mile Point fire station in Kirkwood this weekend.

Volunteers from the American Red Cross will offer free flood relief services and supplies at the Five Mile Point Fire Department in Kirkwood on Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 10AM to 3PM.

Stacy Mulford grabbed two bins of supplies the Lodi Fire Department was distributing for people affected by the flood. She wasn't home when the flood hit Tuesday, but her daughter was until folks came by banging on the door. "Get out! Get out, now!"

Things appear to be calming down at a small reservoir in Hancock after a State of Emergency was declared on Monday.