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The National Weather service predicted that 9/1 could be one of the top five wettest days on record in central PA, behind Hurricane Agnes (1972) and Tropical Storm Lee (2011). The storm brought at least 5 inches (13 cm) of rain at Harrisburg International airport and 7 inches (18 cm) of rain in Lancaster. [81]
Tropical cyclones normally threaten the states during the summer and fall, with their main impact being rainfall. [3] Although Hurricane Agnes was barely a hurricane at landfall in Florida, its major impact was over the Mid-Atlantic region, where Agnes combined with a non-tropical low to produce widespread rains of 6 inches (150 mm) to 12 inches (300 mm) with local amounts up to 19 inches (480 ...
In 1796, Solomon Meyer created Die York Gazette, a weekly, German-language newspaper, which The York Daily Record credits as its earliest incarnation. [11]After several years without publication of Die York Gazette, William C. Harris created the English-language Gazette in 1815.
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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Postcard of Italian Lake from between circa 1930 and 1945. The 9.5 acre park was a side project to the William Penn High School constructed in the midst of the City Beautiful Movement and was designed by Warren Manning. The Graham-McKee estate donated the acreages of former swampland in 1918, and construction began and was completed ten years ...
Penn Lake Park is located at According to the United States Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.2 km 2 ), of which 1.5 square miles (4.0 km 2 ) is land and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km 2 ), or 5.05%, is water.
Halfway Lake is the main focus of R. B. Winter State Park. The lake is filled by spring-fed mountain streams. It was formed by a man-made sandstone dam. The water temperature is usually approximately 50 degrees F (10 degrees C) due to much of the lake being filled with water from directly underground.