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The hurricane's death toll was 128. [1] The effects of Agnes were widespread, from the Caribbean to Canada, with much of the east coast of the United States affected. Damage was heaviest in Pennsylvania, where Agnes was the state's wettest tropical cyclone. Due to the significant effects, the name Agnes was retired in the spring of 1973.
Former Broome County historian Gerald Smith has a family connection to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Agnes during the Flood of 1972.
In the 1972 presidential election he supported Republican Richard Nixon over Democrat George McGovern. He refused to accompany McGovern during his visit to Wilkes-Barre after the 1972 flood. McGovern held a press conference at the Hotel Sterling. In the neighboring city of Scranton, Flood was occasionally accused of favoring Wilkes-Barre.
Nov. 27—WILKES-BARRE — On Nov. 18, 1972, Bobby McBride led the Wilkes College Colonels on to the field for a game against King's Point. While attempting to make a tackle from his secondary ...
Nov. 10—WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Army Veteran Ronald Skamanich, volunteer curator of memorabilia at the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center, said veterans come up to him all the time and say they have ...
Recovered bodies were eventually buried in a mass grave with a monument marking the 1972 flood's damage. In September 2011, the borough's levee system was once again put to the test when Tropical Storm Lee caused severe flooding throughout the Wyoming Valley. However, this time the levee held, and the town was preserved from the catastrophe it ...
It was flooded in 1972 from Hurricane Agnes and survived. Attached to the school was Wilkes-Barre Memorial Stadium, which contained a track and American football field used for all of Wilkes-Barre Area School District's public high schools and Holy Redeemer High School. [10]