It was the worst flooding of the Chesapeake region in modern times. Roads, bridges and telephone lines electrical service and hastily built sandbag levees entire homes - they all fell to Agnes. The combined deluge funneled water directly into the bay's tributaries. The storm then clashed against a vigorous southbound weather system that had been dumping rain on western New York. It was June, and Agnes had stalled over a huge swath of the bay's watershed from central Virginia to south-central Pennsylvania. When Tropical Storm Agnes crawled up the East Coast in the summer of 1972, it smashed nearly every record for what a storm could do to the Chesapeake Bay. This USA Today Network special report explores solutions to deep threats that flow through New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland as the Susquehanna River feeds the Chesapeake Bay - with life and death.
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