Hurricane Irene

By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 - 2:37 pm
Prattsville is the new Woodstock. Above: A scene from the first MudFest, held August 25-26, 2012. Photo from MudFest's Facebook page. We will pick up the pieces Shattered of memories on the groundWe don't know how to give upHell yes we're going to rebuild... Read more
By prattsvillemudfest on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 - 5:58 pm
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 - 10:58 am
To commemorate the two-year anniversary of Tropical Storms Irene and Lee, which devastated communities across the Catskills on August 28, 2011, we are collecting your flood stories. To see all the submitted flood stories, click here. To see last year's "... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 - 10:53 am
To commemorate the two-year anniversary of Tropical Storms Irene and Lee, which devastated communities across the Catskills on August 28, 2011, we are collecting your flood stories. To see all the submitted flood stories, click here. To see last year's "... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 18, 2013 - 11:04 pm
An employee of the Shandaken highway department has been charged with embezzling over $20,000 from the town, some of it allegedly from FEMA funds meant for Irene flood relief. On Wednesday, state police arrested 46-year-old Florence Sullivan of Chichester... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 26, 2013 - 2:27 pm
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 3, 2013 - 5:36 pm
Photo by Julia Reischel. The banner says it all: The CVS on Bridge Street in Margaretville is once again open for business. The pharmacy reopened on Friday, with a gloriously sunny May day to mark the occasion. It's been almost two years after the Irene... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 8, 2013 - 3:50 pm
Above: The last FEMA trailer in the village of Schoharie being towed away from Mary and Jim Bryant's front yard on Thursday, April 4. Photo by Alison Bryant; used by permission of Schoharie Area Long Term Recovery.  The flood-ravaged village of Schoharie... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 8, 2013 - 10:37 am
A Prattsville home coated in ankle-deep mud after the 2011 Irene floods. Photo by All Hands Volunteers; published on Flickr under Creative Commons license. In August of 2011, flooding from Tropical Storm Irene wreaked incredible damage on the Greene... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 1, 2013 - 4:25 pm
Above: The Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia on September 5, 2011, a week after Irene flooding damaged the building and grounds. Photo by Flickr user fixbuffalo; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group. Over a year and a half since the Irene... Read more

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