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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 7:53 pm
This just in via WCDO radio reporter Rob Ray, on Facebook:
UNADILLA VILLAGE RESIDENTS ON THE RIVER SIDE OF MAIN STREET, YOU ARE TO EVACUATE BY 9:00 PM TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES ALL WHOLE LENGTH OF THE VILLAGE FROM ROUTE 357 TO MILL STREET
A flash flood... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 6:48 pm
Flooding fears aren't over in Sullivan County. The takeaway, according to a new alert on the county website, is that "the Delaware River at Callicoon and near Barryville, the Beaverkill River, and the Neversink River are either flooding or are expected... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 6:36 pm
6:35pm: According to the Middletown Flood Recovery website, most road in Margaretville are passable, and things seem to be returning to normal:
Road and Street Report — Sept. 7
Margaretville firefighters are once again pumping basements in the Swart... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 6:03 pm
Above: A crayfish found in a basement on Wagner Ave. this week. Photo by Judy Sugar, sent to us yesterday.
The Middletown Flood Recovery blog reports that Fleischmanns evacuees have come back home:
Road and Street Report — Sept. 7
Fleischmanns evacuees... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 5:24 pm
From the governor's office: Residents of Schoharie Valley and Catskills should be on alert tonight for more rain. Specific warnings are made for western Delaware County, particularly Unadilla -- see the highlighted areas in bold:
Governor Cuomo Orders... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 5:03 pm
The New York Department of Environmental Conservaton has released its long-awaited version of the Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) on hydraulic fracturing today. The state is accepting comments on it until December 12.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 2:02 pm
From Diane Galusha, public information officer for the Town of Middletown.
[Additions: Andes School also closed early today, around 12:45: I know this for a fact, because my seventh-grade cousin is currently sitting at my kitchen table. Also, we have been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 1:02 pm
1pm: The latest from Rob Stanley:
The water has receded. We'll continue our command post here in Phoenicia at least through Friday. We're looking at at least two storms coming through on Friday.
For anybody that may have been inundated by floodwater... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 12:58 pm
We'll be doing another special flooding edition of our radio show at 1pm today. Listen live by clicking here.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 12:21 pm
Greene County sent us this press release this morning:
GREENE COUNTY PRESS RELEASE 9/7/11 AT 9:15 A.M.
Due to excessive rainfall within the last 24-36 hours and the projected rainfall through 6:00 p.m. today, Greene County storm efforts are shifting back... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 12:13 pm
This just in from the Walton Reporter, via Twitter:
Walton Central School is closing early. Townsend Elementary, 1 p.m. Middle/High School 1:15.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 11:04 am
Update, 11:00am: The shelter currently operating at the upper lodge at Belleayre is still open, although the FEMA office at the lower lodge is closed for the day. From the Town of Middletown recovery website:
The Belleayre Mountain Recovery Center is open... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 10:16 am
10:15am: The order to evacuate Prattsville immediately has been taken down a notch, according to Shaun Groden, the Greene County administrator, who was just on WRIP in Windham again a moment ago. Groden is now saying that Prattsville residents should be... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 9:57 am
Update 10am: New info from Middletown Flood Recovery website:
Arkville Cut Off Road (County Route 38) is closed due to high water. Dry Brook Road is “still fine,” according to a source at the fire hall. No evacuations have taken place.
In Fleischmanns,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 9:50 am
Update, 11:15am: DEP deputy commissioner Paul Rush confirms in a telephone conversation with the Watershed Post that the Gilboa Dam is NOT compromised and is NOT in danger of failure, and says that the water currently spilling over the top of the dam is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 9:24 am
9:30am: From WRIP this morning -- several callers reported floodwaters over roads around Greene County.
Joe Loverro reports:
A bridge over Mill Street Windham is 4 or 5 inches over. Stay off County Rt 10 in Ashland. Minor flooding predicted in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 9:05 am
9:04: On WJFF just now: "The Youngsville-Jefferson Fire Department is asking resident from low-lying areas to relocate. Parts of Rte. 52 area already closed."
8:18am: Barbara Gref, an editor and WJFF volunteer who lives in Jeffersonville in Sullivan... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 8:17 am
As of around 7:30am, Marty Finch at the Roxbury Fire Department said there were no evacuations underway in Roxbury, although the fire department had already been called out to rescue someone in the Denver Vega valley this morning.
At the time, he said the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 6:10 am
Several area stream gauges show that flooding is underway, or forecast within the next 48 hours. Click links for details.
Minor flooding, as of 6am:
Pepacton
Esopus at Cold Brook
Moderate flooding forecast in next 48 hours:
Pepacton
East Branch at... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Tuesday, Sep. 6, 2011 - 2:57 pm
Editor's note: This story was submitted to the Watershed Post on August 31. In our haste to publish information about the hardest-hit towns, we have not published it until today, September 6. Thanks to Lillian Browne for keeping us posted on some of the... Read more
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