By Eric Ayres and Derek Redd, The Intelligencer
TRIADELPHIA — Brenda White was walking past one of the windows at the back of her home on Mink Avenue in Triadelphia on Saturday night when she called to her husband Greg to look at the swiftly rising creek waters.
Wondering whether the water had started bubbling up from the sewers outside the front of her home, she looked out the front door to find that it hadn’t yet.
The Whites watched the creek behind the house a little longer, but when they checked back in the front, it was a much different scene. Mink Avenue had become a raging river, one that was carrying massive pieces of debris past the house — and was quickly rising toward their home’s foundation.
“Once it started coming up, it didn’t take long at all,” Brenda White said. “It was a river. It was awful.”