Then and now
| 30 Aug 2012 | 03:17
DeBucks Sod Farm on Missionland Road in Pine Island was under several feet of water after the Walkill River broke through several dikes during Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee during this time last year.
Onions float to the surface of the floodwaterís along Missionland Road in Pine Island after Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in August 2011.
Earlier this week, the bounty of the same onion field is ready to harvest.
We’d be remiss not to mark the anniversary of the damage wrought by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee last August. These images by photographer Robert G. Breese provide a glimpse of how far we’ve had to come since then.
Photos by Robert G. Breese