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With the terrain already inundated from previous storms, Saturday's heavy rains caused severe flooding in tributaries and landslides from the northern Old Lycoming Township area to the west in Woodward Township.
Though the thunderstorm was short lived -- from around 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. -- nearly 10 calls were made to emergency services for trees down or on wires during that time.
Williamsport Water and Sewer Authority employees rushed to clear debris from the city's stormwater drains.
The majority of first responder's attention was on Beautys Run Road, where waters had crept dangerously close to houses, or as with 835 and 839 Beautys Run Road, completely cut off homes from the road. At about 6:15 p.m., Old Lycoming Township Fire Co. called for boats to be transported to the area.
News personnel were denied access to a large landslide, which occurred west of where Beautys Run Road crosses the stream, Beautys Run.
Quenshuckney Run in Woodward Township, usually a small stream about two-feet-deep at most, swelled and inundated some low-lying sheds in the area.
"It just happened so fast," said one Quenshuckney Road resident, whose fenced-in playground equipment had water three feet high along its base.
Further north along the road, near East Emery Church Road, crews responded to a landslide..
"Coming up, I could smell diesel fuel," said Erin Burkholder, fire captain at Woodward Volunteer Fire Company.
The source could not be pin-pointed, he said, but he noted that it did start to fade at about 6 p.m.
The state Department of Environmental Protection was contacted, he added.
Crews used construction equipment, such as backhoes, to clear the roads.
No one was reported injured in the flooding.