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2011 Susquehanna River crests at record 42.66 feet. "The levee, facing its greatest test, held, leaving Luzerne County’s largest city free of the flooding that covered Wilkes-Barre in 1972. The city “dodged a major bullet,I hope that people take a moment tonight and say a prayer and thank the Lord that that dike held,” - Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski"

Great reporting by the CItizens VOice and Mike Sisak. NBC Anne Thompson