Pennsylvania flood museum temporarily closed due to flooding

Cold weather causes leak at Johnstown Flood Museum, which commemorates 1889 catastrophe that killed 2,209

A museum dedicated to commemorating the victims of a 19th-century flood in Pennsylvania has temporarily closed due to flooding - caused on the inside of the facility by a water leak stemming from recent, extremely cold weather, officials said on Monday.

Fortunately for its patrons, the Johnstown Flood Museum said on its social media accounts that nothing of historic significance was affected" by the interior inundation.