flooding
By Carol La Monda on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 - 1:35 pm
Photo by Flickr user Jeremy Bernstein. Published under Creative Commons license.
Help! We have too many capital letters in the alphabet as we try to repair damage from Hurricanes Irene and Lee and the recent deluge. I am convinced that if we could just... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 - 3:46 pm
Photo of temporary housing units in North Carolina by FEMA.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced last week that they are delivering temporary housing units to Cobleskill, to be distributed to flood victims in New York State who cannot find... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 - 8:47 am
Ellen Verni has been writing "Home Cookin'," her column of Catskills recipes and rumination, for 24 years. She is sharing some of her archived columns with the Watershed Post. You can get more of Verni on her blog, at homecookincolumn.blogspot.com.
In a... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Sep. 30, 2011 - 3:33 pm
Flood-ravaged towns across the Catskills are taking stock of damage to businesses, in order to take advantage of the Catskill Watershed Corporations recent allocation of $5 million for the rebuilding of businesses within the New York City watershed.
At... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011 - 4:00 pm
Have you seen flooding in your area? Readers, you are our eyes and ears; we rely on you to help get the word out to your neighbors. Send eyewitness accounts, photos and video to editor@watershedpost.com, or post to our Facebook wall: facebook.com/... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011 - 3:34 pm
Above: DEP employees cleaning up flood debris in downtown Margaretville on September 13, 2011. Photo by Lissa Harris.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced this morning that they will donate $1 million to a fund to help... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011 - 9:08 am
Posted on NY-Alert at 4:45am:
The National Weather Service In Albany Has Issued A * Flash Flood Warning For... Greene County In East Central New York... This Includes The City Of Hunter... Central Ulster County In East Central New York... This Includes... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 6:38 pm
The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the Rondout Creek in Rosendale, effective through the evening of Thursday, September 29.
Posted on NY-Alert at 6:19pm:
At 5 PM Wednesday The Stage Was...17.5 Feet. * Flood Stage Is 18 Feet. *... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 5:11 pm
A stretch of Route 209 in the Ulster County town of Rochester is closed in both directions due to flooding.
Posted on NY-Alert at 2:43pm:
N/S US Hwy 209 between Main St & Whitfield Rd closed due to flooding until further notice - Rochester - Ulster Co...
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 - 4:47 pm
Photo of evacuation on Watson Hollow Road, September 28, 2011, by Jeanette Giuliano Kahil. From Facebook album.
Earlier today, we reported that a man had fallen into the creek on Watson Hollow Road in West Shokan after trying to cross a temporary... Read more