Halloween Park at Harry Hykes old mill near Strinestown in Conewago Township sustained flood damage again this year. Operators hope to have some of the attraction open by Halloween. This sad moment serves as a reminder of the days when Hykes and other York County, Pa., mill operators faced the same unpredictable weather that impacted their way of life.
Dover Township’s John Yost has a new water line on his 1840 home. ‘The nearby Conewago Creek flooded up his driveway and porch and almost surpassed his first-floor windowsills,’ York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News photographer Chris Dunn wrote in this ydr.com Media Center gallery photo’s caption.
This photo shared by James Forsythe gave us an early glimpses Thursday night of the extent of this Storm of October 2013. We call it that because no one has invented a name with ‘pocolypse’; yet. Thankfully. And thanks to emergency workers who rescues numerous people from the rising waters made any such irrelevant. Anyway, John Forsythe’s photo shows flooding on I-83 past the Glen Rock exit around 6 p.m.
Auntie Anne/Central Market’s birthday/Famed Civil War latrine These unidentified girls probably never forgot this moment
Yorktownsquare.com covers the doomed Avalong barn, Bowen & McLaughlin’s start in York, Gettysburg tourism, and a truck body reportedly made in York
Glen Rock’s Main Street at the railroad tracks is stacked with snow. This circa 1912
Yorktownsquare.com covers local birdwatching; the town of Nicodemus, Kan.; bad weather in York’s past and St. Paul Lutheran Church’s 250th anniversary
Check out these memorable blizzards, bad weather events from York County and the nation’s past
Yorktownsquare.com covers a longtime York County stained-glass window market, Avalong Restaurant, Camp Security and a source for penny postcards.
York Daily Record/Sunday News photographers produced dozens of photos and videos documenting Sandy’s trip through York County. Here are 4 of the most memorable.