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RE: IRENE is coming! - Twitchin Kitten - 08-30-2011
NJ is waiting out the worst - rivers crest on Thursday. More flooding to commence here.
It's flooded all the way to Lancaster LK. Sammy (wyldcat here) bugged out from New Egypt, NJ to Lancaster thinking she'd be safe. Now New Egypt and Lancaster are flooded. She's stuck there for now.
LH, you dodged a bullet too. Those mountains wouldn't have protected you if there was a river through the middle of it, I don't think. Did any of NH suffer massive flooding or did the whole state skate away unharmed? I don't see any reports on the TV about NH at all. But then again, they like to sensationalize the worst of it over everything else.
Katia is forming in the ocean now. We're hoping it stays out to sea and fizzles.
LH, yeah, winter brings Nor'Easters! baby hurricanes with freezing rain and wind. And you gotta clean up in freezing wet! At least its warm with a hurricane!
I think we'll be closing the pool next week - early. The water turned icy and I got a ton of leaves to clean off the bottom. I see no point in keeping it open now.
RE: IRENE is coming! - LKTraz - 08-30-2011
Wilkes-Barre got some flooding from the Lackawaxen Creek. Harrisburg saw some downed trees and power outages but no flooding to speak of. Allentown had storm drain backups and trees down.
I didn't hear about NH having any real problems either. Seems that Vermont is the trouble spot with more water than they know what to do with in the reservoir at Montpelier.
RE: IRENE is coming! - Twitchin Kitten - 08-31-2011
So I'm out driving for that stupid washer I need and listening to the radio about flood updates here in NJ. The realization of the bullet I dodged hits - Not far, like the next town west, was hit bad by flooding. Streets I'm familiar with, all with small creeks running through them and little "bridges" to close the gap to carry on with the roadway all have overflowed and washed out these bridges. Roads I used to drive daily to get out of Jackson to Freehold fully destroyed.
RE: IRENE is coming! - LKTraz - 09-01-2011
Yeah. It seems that there was more small stream flooding damage and not so much from the major waterways.
I'll let you know what Elizabeth looks like as far as aftermath. I have a load running down there today.
RE: IRENE is coming! - Twitchin Kitten - 09-01-2011
OK. Those salt marshes up there can get pretty high on the tides too. I dont' know what runs through the towns there though but I do know there are streams and creeks. North floods all the time, but more by the Passaic area and Warren county.