{"id":30608,"date":"2023-07-11T02:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T02:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=30608"},"modified":"2023-07-11T02:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T02:32:20","slug":"shapiro-pledges-to-help-berks-county-after-record-rainfall-causes-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=30608","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro pledges to help Berks County after record rainfall causes flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>READING, Pa. (CBS) &#8212; Authorities are still assessing the cost of the <span class=\"link\">damage from Sunday&#8217;s torrential rains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was storm damage throughout the Philadelphia region, from one highway <span class=\"link\">washed away outside Reading<\/span> a <span class=\"link\">flooding in Hatboro<\/span> and one confirmed <span class=\"link\">tornado in Middletown in Delaware.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Woodbine Ostagne and her fiance spent the day cleaning up after her parents&#8217; home on Marshall Avenue flooded. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"18pkg-mw-reading-flooding-transfer-frame-117.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/07\/11\/26e91c43-2b2a-48d2-be19-da3d2a410c1e\/thumbnail\/620x349\/8d6dd1467213197d72fea1b496007a29\/18pkg-mw-reading-flooding-transfer-frame-117.jpg?v=758b39f312cc5ee6054d0eb9bad6c0cd 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/07\/11\/26e91c43-2b2a-48d2-be19-da3d2a410c1e\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/c13abcd95548c3a72d9d0fb36c358987\/18pkg-mw-reading-flooding-transfer-frame-117.jpg?v=758b39f312cc5ee6054d0eb9bad6c0cd 2x\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They came from Haiti and they worked very, very hard to be able to pay off this house for over 20 years, so I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s devastating that as soon as they pay it off, this happens,&#8221; Ostagne said.  <\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s record rainfall led to catastrophic flooding in Berks County.  The storm knocked out power to thousands. <\/p>\n<p>Cars and houses were flooded.  The roads were washed away. <\/p>\n<p>An auto repair shop on Friedensburg Road in Stony Creek Mills collapsed. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"18pkg-mw-reading-flooding-transfer-frame-1017.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/07\/11\/2a15b207-99b0-4ff6-9bd6-54c39d1d8391\/thumbnail\/620x349\/4a3fb10a66ba340a89636c9e019a7a7f\/18pkg-mw-reading-flooding-transfer-frame-1017.jpg?v=758b39f312cc5ee6054d0eb9bad6c0cd 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2023\/07\/11\/2a15b207-99b0-4ff6-9bd6-54c39d1d8391\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/062300267e8594e62a474eb06802e5d6\/18pkg-mw-reading-flooding-transfer-frame-1017.jpg?v=758b39f312cc5ee6054d0eb9bad6c0cd 2x\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>During a tour of the damage Monday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro pledged funding to help the community rebuild. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a local threshold within the county,&#8221; Shapiro said.  &#8220;That&#8217;s $1.9 million in damage. Then there&#8217;s a statewide threshold for the storm that happened yesterday. That&#8217;s about $23 million. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so important that everyone assess their damage and report it to our county officials so we have that number in place.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Shapiro also visited Antietam Middle-Senior High School, which was flooded with at least six feet of water. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say 600 students may have to go elsewhere if the school isn&#8217;t repaired by the fall. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll probably have to make some arrangements to move students into other buildings or modular classrooms, things like that. We don&#8217;t know how much of this building will be usable, if at all,&#8221; Superintendent Heidi Rochlin said. <\/p>\n<p>Before the storm, the school district was building a retaining wall to minimize flooding, but the wall was not built in time. <\/p>\n<p>The nearby Antietam Creek overflowed its banks. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the classrooms on our first floor have been wiped out. The gym is unusable,&#8221; Rochlin said. <\/p>\n<p>The fire chief said his department rescued several people who were trapped in their homes at a nearby trailer park. <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are no reports of injuries. <\/p>\n<p>    Madeleine Wright<\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"img \"><img alt=\"Madeleine-Wright-web-headshot-1024x576-1.jpeg \" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2022\/01\/27\/adc6f377-b919-45b3-877c-dcea72262e46\/thumbnail\/80x80\/33b65cab3aa6c114a501f72bc88b18f7\/Madeleine-Wright-web-headshot-1024x576-1.jpeg?v=758b39f312cc5ee6054d0eb9bad6c0cd 1x\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Madeleine Wright is a bilingual general reporter for CBS3 Eyewitness News.  He joined the team in January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/berks-county-reading-flooding-rain-storms-josh-shapiro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. (CBS) &#8212; Authorities are still assessing the cost of the damage from Sunday&#8217;s torrential rains. There was storm damage throughout the Philadelphia region, from one highway washed away outside Reading a flooding in Hatboro and one confirmed tornado in Middletown in Delaware. Woodbine Ostagne and her fiance spent the day cleaning up after her parents&#8217; home on Marshall Avenue flooded. &#8220;They came from Haiti and they worked very, very hard to be able to pay off this house for over 20 years, so I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s devastating that as soon as they pay it off, this happens,&#8221; Ostagne&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30610,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30608\/revisions\/30610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}