Farmers livestock in jeopardy as waters rise

HAZLETON – Like all of us in the area, Marvin and Jeanette Stanek went to bed Saturday night in the midst of severe thunderstorm and flash-flood warnings. But when the Staneks looked out their east window Sunday morning, they found rising waters of Otter Creek were doing more than just flooding farmland. The Staneks herd of stock cows with calves at side was stranded on a small swatch of pasture, completely surrounded by swirling flood waters.