Knoebels Flooded

Well, if you could physically relocate that entire 30-mile radius, you might be onto something!

Lol, yeah I don't know much about that stuff so I wasn't sure if it was any sort of possible.

I wonder how Williams Grove fared. I remember entering the park on a bridge over a creek.

Good point, haven't heard any updates on that situation for a little while. If it did flood and there was damage, I don't see them as anxious to clean up as Knoebels, who knows though, Im still hoping something happens to this park... Whats left of it. *** Edited 6/30/2006 7:40:41 PM UTC by P18***

I was just making the point that there becomes a point where the amount of money you're losing becomes a big hassle. I used to crack on my boss at one of my jobs because he used to poor so much money into repairing this old work van. He was always taking it around the corner to get fixed. I kept questioning his rationale, if after a certain point he could've had a new van.

I heard the other night that the local water company has control over Roaring Creek. When their reservoirs fill and they release water into the creek it's only a short time until it gets to the park. The water company is on Rt 54 just at the bottom of the hill before Atlas.

A guy that works at Knoebels was telling me that the creek was normal then a half hour later it was only a foot from the top of the wall!

OK, so you divert the creek-- where? Onto someone else's property and flood them out? Then they're suing you for damages and loss of property value. You can't arbitrarily change the natural path water wants to take. It's going to go where it wants to go anyway.

What they could do to alleviate damage is to move rides and buildings further away from the creek to provide more of a buffer. But then you'd have this wide space in between two separate sections of the park. I don't know how good that would look or how much it affects the atmosphere of the park.

Just be glad they have an unpaved parking lot and those gravel paths people complain about, or it would have been worse.

Probably what they mean about the water company controlling the flow is that when it appears a dam is getting too full, they have to release water into the channel below to keep the dam from overflowing. At least so there's more going out than coming in. If the dams were to over-top, there'd be the danger of the entire berm collapsing. Then you'd have another Johnstown flood.

Re: Flood Insurance, I was under the impression that was offered only through the federal government and not through private insurers anyway.

I didn't hear anything about Williams Grove itself, but I heard that Yellow Breeches creek, that flows through the park had some minor flooding closer to where it flows into the Susquehanna. Not sure how severe it was further upstream where the park is.