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09/18/04 -- Hurricane Ivan Flood Pictures
If you live in NEPA right now chances are you are experiencing some sort of effects from the rains of Hurricane Ivan. I ventured out this morning with my husband and we took some pictures of the flooding that the rains of Hurricane Ivan caused. Click here to view the pictures. If you would like to add your own pictures or discuss Hurricane Ivan then visit the Hurricane Ivan thread in the message board that I have setup.
To stay informed with the lastest news and weather updates tune into your local news organizations or visit WNEP.com.
The flood pictures links on the left hand side of the page are not currently working. They should be back up by Monday morning.
Thanks!
Michelle
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09/06/04 -- Pictures
The Agnes pictures have found a permanent home. Please click on the "View Photo Galleries" link to view them. As always, if you have any pictures you would like to add to the collection, please send me an email at photos@agnesinnepa.org.
Thanks!
Michelle
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08/01/02 -- Agnes Website Added to DMOZ/Google
During the end of July, the agnesinnepa.org website was added to DMOZ. DMOZ, is a web directory that is open to everyone to submit websites to. These websites that are submitted are eventually edited and added to search engines such as Google or Yahoo. This will allow for this website to be easily found on the vast World Wide Web.
Thanks,
Michelle Hryvnak
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06/23/02 -- Welcome!
At noon on June 23, 2002, a group of dignitaries and perhaps a hundred citizens gathered on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre to remember the events that occurred thirty years ago on this date, when the waters of the Susquehanna River, swollen by Tropical Storm Agnes, overflowed its banks and created the greatest natural disaster in the history of the United States. Welcome to agnesinnepa.org. This website was created to preserve the memory - the facts, statistics, the pictures and the stories - of the Flood of 1972. We invite you to learn - and to participate - by sharing your personal stories and pictures, and in so doing provide for generations to come, a living history of the events that gave rise to the name, "The Valley with a Heart."
Michelle Hryvnak
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06/20/02 -- Agnes Message Board -- Share Your Agnes Stories
If you are interested in sharing an Agnes flood related story, please click on the Agnes Message Board link on the left-hand side. There are five different forums to choose from, on the Agnes Message Board System. Choose the one that best suits your story. I would personally like to thank those of you for taking the time to submit your stories.
Thank you,
Michelle Hryvnak
Webmaster of Agnesinnepa.org
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06/20/02 -- Press Release
New Agnes Web Site to serve as "Virtual Museum"
For immediate release
On the 30th anniversary of the 1972 flood in Wyoming Valley, nearly every media outlet in the region is preparing retrospective programming or publications. In 2002, the Internet is a medium that did not even exist at the time of the flood, and Michelle Hryvnak, a 21-year old Hanover Township resident, sees the World Wide Web as an opportunity to create a virtual museum. According to Hryvnak, the idea came to her upon hearing her parents and grandparents talk about the flood and seeing their photographs. "I realized that these stories and pictures should be preserved while we still had the chance, and no one was doing it in an organized fashion." The site is located at www.agnesinnepa.org
As she did her research, she discovered that there is quite a bit of information about the 1972 disaster on the Internet, but that it was terribly fragmented and often hard to find. Moreover, there was no place where people could share the personal stories and pictures that are the really important part of history.
"On a program on WVIA recently, Dr. Anthony Mussari appealed for a museum of the flood. I can't build a museum, but I can build a web site!" The objective of the site is to bring together in one spot as much factual and anecdotal information about the flood as possible, and then make it accessible to everyone. Where the actual information can't be represented on the web, such as books and videos, there is a directory of resources and where to find them.
According to Hryvnak, the site is a work is progress. "I'm hoping people will contribute to it, and make suggestions for additions. Then, when Dr. Mussari's physical flood museum comes along, it will already have a great web site!"
To that end, Hryvnak is encouraging media and institutions to provide her access to their resources. "Anything I put up on the site will be credited to the source, and that gives them the visibility they need. It's a win-win situation, and a great way to preserve all we can for future generations. I missed the flood by about ten years, but I want tomorrow's kids to be able to have some place to go where they can learn all about it.
For more information:
Michelle Hryvnak
www.agnesinnepa.org
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