It's a good thing there are so many boats around here.  Shit gets crazy, whatever, we're yachtin'.

you may be in "luck" (damn, you had river flooding? Sucks dude) .  A large part of the massive amounts of water from this storm appear to be because it will stall over NY or NE, that "may" buy you some of the transition time...or not.

The current track for the moment seems likely to spare the Capitol District even along the Hudson of much more a moderate rain. Downstate, my bet is if the storm hits Bergan Cty, the Storm Surge will go up the Hudson as far Scarsdale or Haverstraw.

Nightcrawler wrote:

Yea I am less then a 1/4 mile from the Hudson. It broke over a day after Irene went through and made it into our yard, about 3 feet in the basement. We were lucky and lost very little. The most expensive was a new regulator on the furnace, so we didnt have it that bad, more of an annoyance.

same here.  Real close to the hudson...I'm worried my car's down the block from me on the street, if the drains get clogged, no more 92x for me!...I'm actually 10 blocks from the water, ha.  9 feet above sea level.  : |

We are still running our 2nd shift today, possibly sending them home early at 8 instead of 11:30pm. Very good chance that 3rd shift is cancelled entirely and 1st shift tomorrow will be decided at 5:30am. Nothing like being proactive and saying everyone stay home.

We lucked out up here and just had a breezy rain storm. Watching video from NJ, NYC, etc. I'm shocked. I hope any and all of you affected by this storm are safe.

We've had flooding two days in a row. now. KrazyKarGuy, Avoid RT 15(both directions). Take Browns Trace to 89 and into Burlington. RT 15 is gone at Weed Rd(south of town) and Cilley Hill rd(North of Town). Jericho was an island for a part of tonight and I got stuck there for three hours trying to find a way out while covering the flooding.

We're 160% of the average rainfall totals.  Last time this happened here, it was 2008, and we had a 500 year flood.  And this happened in MN:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/23/us/minnes … index.html

I got broadsided by the wall of water that took out Weed Rd as I drove up 15. Me and 2 other cars almost ended up in the x-mas tree farm. I pulled down Weed just in time to watch it get washed out, then saw a State Trooper fly by down to the little dip on 15 where I had been hit by the wall of water. I went there and talked to him as he shut down 15. We both watched as the road disintegrated before us. If he hadn't shut the road down right then, I have no doubts someone would have attempted to cross and died trying(seeing how they were attempting when he shut it down). I had to tell him about Weed rd being washed out as no one knew at the time. He went and put up a road block there. He and I both ended up at Cilley hill(North end) in time to watch the Garage of the house that's on that intersection disappear. That trooper and I ended up everywhere last night. I flagged him down so many times for stranded cars, flooded houses, etc. I give that man major credit. Hope you and your Parents escaped any damage to your homes. When I get into work I'll cut some video/stills of last night and post them.

Those are both Cilley Hill Road. The top picture is from the top of the Underhill side, the bottom pic is the washed out culvert from the 'stranded islander' side of Cilley Hill, just before the Hanley Rd./Cilley Hill Rd. fork.

Go ahead and use them, I doubt my dad would care (his name is Richard Kuerth, if you feel like providing credit). I am fairly certain that their home did not sustain any damage.

Last edited by krazykarguy (2013-05-24 13:10:35)

Wow, awesome pictures. Feel terrible for the people living around there though. That's nuts. Thanks for sharing your photos VTPhotog.

Here's the story that aired tonight on that House at Cilley rd.
http://www.fox44abc22yourvoice.com/cate … Id=8918194
I didn't shoot any of the daytime video, just the night time stuff. I did however set up the live shot and edit this story.

Last edited by VTPhotog (2013-05-24 22:34:02)

This is how my day started today. Tried backing out of the drive only to get high sided on all the boulders of ice and snow the town left at the end of my drive.



After snow blowing the drive I tired to use the Jeep to tow the  out. Only to find out we own the only Jeep with no fucking tow hooks anywhere.


Trying the other end of the Jeep now.


Finally was able to wrap my tow strap around the sub frame and yank the Saab out. It probably would have been a lot easier with 2 people but my partner was sitting in the nice warm house getting ready for work. By the time she was ready, her Jeep was nice and warm. She didn't even come out in the drive to take a good picture of how bad I high sided that fucker.