willshak wrote:

RBM wrote the following:
There was a lot of speculation about the hype of this hurricane. I live
in downstate NY thirty miles from the long Island sound, so I had no
concern about storm surges. It was windy the night before the storm hit
my area, and it was windy after the storm left. The storm itself, in my
area seemed a non event. I lost power, phone, internet, and useable cell
service the morning the storm hit and just got them back two hours ago.
I have never seen so much tree damage and flooded basements in my life.
Even now, some areas of southern Connecticut have huge outages. All in
all, I think we were very lucky that this storm was only a weak cat1.


On the NY side of the Hudson, there was a lot of outages and flooding.
Not from the Hudson River, but by all the streams and rivers that came
down from the Catskill Mtns. that were overwhelmed by the amount of
rain. Roads and Bridges flooded, and in some cases, destroyed.
Two towns were almost wiped out. Prattsville and Margaretville.

I thought you meant Prattsville & Windham, because our newsfolks
haven't made it to Margaretville. I just looked at some news on
them.

Prattsville is effectively gone. The lower end of Windham was also
washed away. And on down below them the Schoharie flooded several
more, but with less force-- so the majority of folks kept their
houses- and were gifted a few feet of mud to shovel out. Middleburg &
Schoharie had 6 feet of water in their Main Streets. Further down,
Central Bridge, Esperance, and ???? [can't ever remember the next
hamlet's name] sustained some pretty severe damage.

And the Schoharie dumps into the Mohawk- where it registered record
highwater, flooded parts of a couple of cities and threatened a dam
below. Power is still out for a few folks.

Houses that had survived over 200 years were destroyed in this one.

Oh yeah-- and the first town to get flooded seems to have been
forgotten by our locals who are all covering Schoharie & Greene
county-- Fleishmann's in Delaware county got *no* warning and a couple
folks died.

That said-- RBM's remark that we were lucky, still applies. When I
look at where the Mohawk River was, and imagine what a few more inches
of rain might have done. . . Phew-

Jim