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By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014 - 3:54 pm
Stamford is currently under a boil water advisory due to a water main break in the village that occurred on Friday evening. The break was discovered around 7 a.m. on Saturday, February 1, according to a post on the village's Facebook page. Before the boil... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 - 11:35 am
A boil-water advisory issued Sunday, Jan. 26 for the Phoenicia Water District has been lifted, town officials in Shandaken announced Friday.  The advisory was declared last week because of the extreme cold weather, which froze underground springs and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 - 4:16 pm
Above: A couple of Cobleskill firefighters suited up for an ice rescue drill in the town of Summit on Saturday, Jan. 25. Photos by Sandra-Lynn White VanValkenburgh; reproduced with permission from Schoharie County Fire Wire & News.  If you fell... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 - 3:50 pm
Photo of water faucet by Flickr user Tom Raftery; published under Creative Commons license.  The Phoenicia Water District is currently under a boil water advisory until further notice. The bitterly cold weather has caused a water shortage, forcing the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 - 9:28 am
Don't go out there, kitty. Photo taken in Andes over the weekend by Mark Zilberman; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. It's baaa-aaaaack: The polar vortex, a whirling mass of low-pressure frigid air that usually has the decency to stay far... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 - 10:19 am
Above: A running spigot at Hubbell Bros. in the Delaware County town of Middletown gets the polar vortex treatment. Photo taken on Wednesday by Watershed Post reader Burr Hubbell, who writes, "The water's still running inside that icicle thingy. It's just... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 - 10:11 pm
Above: Screenshot from Central Hudson's outage map showing widespread power outages in the Ulster County towns of Woodstock and Olive.  On Tuesday evening, with temperatures in the single digits and subzero wind chills, Central Hudson was reporting... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 - 4:30 pm
Don't touch that dial (til 10 p.m.). Closeup photo of washing machine control panel by Flickr user Chris Dillon; published under Creative Commons license.  Officials at the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), the nonprofit company that manages... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 - 3:25 pm
Left: An image taken from a NY Thruway traffic webcam near Exit 57 at 3:21 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 6. For more Thruway webcams in the Buffalo region, see this page on the NY Thruway website. The New York State Thruway will be partially shut down due to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 - 12:24 pm
Above: A chilly early-morning scene in the Schoharie County town of Esperance, taken Sunday morning by Flickr user A Man Called ACME. It's about to get chillier, as a front of Arctic air sends temperatures plunging across the Northeast. Photo shared in... Read more

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