Flooding downpours were all but inevitable, forecasters were warning during a weekend so steamy that it seemed that the saturated atmosphere itself was breaking out in a sweat.
However, no one foresaw the deluge that took the lives of at least five people in one of the region’s deadliest weather events on record. The intensive search continued Monday for 2-year-old Matilda Sheils, and her 9-month-old brother, Conrad. Their mother Katheryn Seley, 32, was one of three victims whose bodies were found Saturday.
Upper Makefield Township, not far from where George Washington and Continental Army soldiers famously crossed the Delaware River on a stormy Christmas night in 1776, has been historically flood-prone, but local residents said they never had witnessed rains of such ferocity as those of Saturday afternoon and evening.
