June 2006 Northeastern United States flood

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The June 2006 Northeast flood was caused by a series of rainstorms that have inundated areas between Washington, DC and Binghamton, NY, mainly along the Delaware River and Susquehanna Rivers.

Excess numbers of homes were inundated and many offices in Washington, DC were flooded—including the United States Justice Department. There was no damage to files at the National Archives, but its auditorium was inundated.

The entire state of New Jersey is currently in a state of emergency, as declared by that state's governor John Corzine.

There have been several dozen known deaths; two truckers were killed on Interstate 88 after a piece of the highway broke off from the floodwaters to their oblivion, and several others were washed out of a pickup truck after being rescued out of their flooded car. In another case, a 15-year old girl Jamie Berthlof was killed when she was trapped inside her home when it was swept downstream. In Utica, New York, a restaurant sitting on the banks of the Mohawk River was swept away in an instant due to the extreme pressure of the floodwaters.

One town particularly devastated was Livingston Manor, New York. Other towns, to name a few, that were heavily devastated were Great Bend-Hallstead, PA. Hundreds of people living in the town were under three to five feet of water and had to be evacuated, if not, heliported from their homes. Conklin, NY, which is just across the PA/NY state line, was totally destroyed. Numerous houses were marked "Condemned" after government officials assessed the damage.

As of now the Delaware River is approximately 2.8 meters above flood stage.

200,000 people have been ordered to evacuate in the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania area due to the rising flood waters along the Susquehanna. There have been fears that certain levees in the area could weaken or even rupture from the rising flood waters.