After the deluge

I took a drive around the area to see the flood's aftermath on Thursday, May 1, and found an especially dramatic scene on Laurel Road, south of Strasburg Road, in Newlin Township.
The raging waters of the Brandywine Creek had undermined some large beech and sycamore trees, and they toppled over, their root systems bringing a considerable amount of pavement down with them. A good portion of the road was washed down the steep slope to the  creek, and at one point the roadside guardrail is just hanging there in mid-air.

Township supervisor Rob Pearson was on the scene assessing the road damage with a township road-crew member and two engineers with clipboards.

I told him how amazed I was at the extent of the damage.
"This is what water can do," he explained. He said there was also some storm damage a little farther south at Harvey's Bridge.