Wet and Wild in Bucks County

Roads were closed.

Creeks and rivers were high and muddy.

Sidewalks and yards were littered with twigs, branches, grass and trash.

And basements? The lucky got a little water; the unlucky started bailing.

That was the situation Thursday as Bucks County took advantage of a few hours of dry weather to assess and recover from the overnight rainstorms that .

In most areas in Central Bucks, the waters rose and then started to fall fairly quickly. Roads were closed for a few hours, but many were back open Thursday morning.

Along the Delaware River, it was a different story.

River Road was impassable in several places, and riverside residents once again faced the prospect of real flooding.

Police and firefighters, meanwhile, were kept busy early Thursday morning pulling people out of vehicles stranded in the floodwaters. Later in the day, they repeated a plea for drivers to stay out of flooded areas.

"I think everybody should take the advice that if you see standing water, assume that it’s too deep to drive through," said Lt. Matt O'Connor, of the Doylestown Township Police Department.

Driving into a flooded road isn't just risky for the driver, officials said.

"People need to know that they put more than themselves at risk when they go through water of unknown depth," said Larry Browne, of the Doylestown Fire Co. "They put everyone helping them at risk as well."

The volunteers of the Doylestown fire department had to pull people out of three cars during the flooding, Browne said. One happened at Chapman and Pine Run, another at Edison Furlong and the third, around 4 a.m. Thursday, on Almshouse Rd. east of Rt. 611, he said.

In Buckingham, rescuers were also busy with water rescues, especially along Rt. 413.

In Doylestown Borough, the three trouble spots that usually get water did - the upper and lower ends of East Street, and Veterans Lane near the Lantern Hill neighborhood.

Those roads had to be closed for a time, but the water had started subsiding by about 7 a.m. and they were reopened soon after, borough manager John Davis said.

But the rains also caused flooding in parts of Doylestown Borough that don't usually flood. Davis said those spots included West Street, near Brinker's Fuels, and Court Street, near Fonthill, and Chestnut Drive in Old Orchard, which had to be closed because water was coming over Rt. 313.

Meanwhile, near Lantern Hill, the water in the usually small creek even rose over the footbridge that connects the neighborhood to the sidewalk along Veteran's Lane.

"That was pretty amazing," Davis said. "That’s as much water as I’ve seen in awhile."

Buckingham resident Mike Maney and Doylestown resident Michael Rubillo contributed several of these photographs. View more of their work on their websites.

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