With evacuation orders under way across a wide area of central Pennsylvania, credit unions  were closing branches early and sending staffers home as flooded roads and rain-swollen rivers – the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee – posed new dangers.

The $50 million Hershey FCU in Hummelstown said it has closed its Annville office and the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association in Harrisburg, with headquarters on the banks of the Susquehanna River near flood stage, said it was closing early Thursday and would be shuttered Friday as well. It had closed early Wednesday but reopened Thursday. 

PCUA President/CEO James McCormack said the closing was ordered since "some employees were unable to make it home due to flooded roads on Wednesday and more than half could not make it to work today."

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