Saucon Valley Area Cleans Up from Flash Flooding (Photos)
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A worker sweeps water from the mud-covered parking lot behind Ella’s Ristorante in Hellertown Thursday. The parking lot and nearby areas were flooded when the Silver Creek overflowed its banks, after the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped as much as 7 inches of rain on the area.
A historic storm that dumped as much as 7 inches of rain on parts of the area Wednesday left sunny skies, cooler temperatures and plenty of debris to clean up in its wake, but the general consensus among residents seemed to be that it “could have been worse.”
The remnants of Hurricane Ida deluged the Saucon Valley and other parts of southern Lehigh and Northampton counties with approximately 5 to 7 inches of rain, according to National Weather Service precipitation estimates. Further south, parts of Upper Bucks County saw upwards of 7 inches, and parts of Hunterdon County, N.J. received as much as 10 inches of rain, leading to…
