Lee s tartedout innoc uous ly.A tropi cal wav e was fir st dete cted by we ath er for eca ste rs of f the Y uca - tan Peni nsul a on Aug. A strengthened levee system prote cted most of the W yomi ng Valley when Tr opical Depression Lee dumped heavy rain over three days, rais ing the w ater depth to 42.6 feet, breaking the Agnes cres t record. 9 feet in Wilk es-Barre on J, brea ching leve es in For ty Fort and Wilk es-Barre and causing billi ons in damag es. Several days o f rain from Agnes cau sedthe river to cre st at 40. 7 and 8, Luzerne County officials wa rne d re sid ent s to exp ectan Agne s-type flood. The m emo ry of the197 2 floo d is still so fresh that when the river rapidly rose and mandatory evac- uations were ordered on Sept. The t wo sto rm sy ste ms se par at- ed by 39 years share many simi- lariti es both formed off the coast of the Yu catan Peninsula of Mex- ico in the western Caribbean Sea and followed nearly the same path north before stalling over North- eastern Pennsylvania and causing record flooding of the Susquehan- na River.
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