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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
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 6, 2011 - 2:55 pm
According to Ulster County Emergency Communications./Emergency Management Directory Arthur Snyder, there will be rain moving through the Catskills tonight, and nobody really know how much. From his email earlier today:
Special attention to all those... Read more
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