[Fredslist] Fwd: Pictures of Irene's Flooding in the Catskills from Gothamite Steve Mancinelli

[Raj Goel, CISSP]

Here are photos from my friend and felllow Gothamite Steve Mancinelli 
of the impact Irene had on his upstate residence.

I'm glad he's ok...



--Raj

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> Dear Friends and Family,
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> Well, our week at our house in the Catskills did not start well with 
> the arrival of tropical storm Irene.  While everyone thought NYC would 
> get slammed. The City was pretty much spared but the Catskills became 
> a major disaster area.  Our power went out about 4:30 am (I knew 
> because my iPhone in its cradle kept boinking on and off waking me up 
> as the power blinked on and off).  On Sunday afternoon when the brunt 
> of the storm was nearly passed we ventured out.  We couldn't go very 
> far however as all the roads in every direction within four miles of 
> the house were closed due to flooding, downed trees and power lines 
> and cracked telephone poles.  With no electricity there's nothing to 
> power the well pump — so no water.  We had collected bottles of 
> water for drinking but not enough for other uses.  No problem, there 
> was more than enough runoff coming down the mountain behind the house. 
>  We scooped several buckets and put them in the tub for toilet 
> flushing and boiled a couple of large kettles of runoff on the wood 
> stove for washing dishes and general washing up. After we learned on 
> Monday that the power would not be restored for another 3 to 4 days he 
> decided to come back to the City.  There's no power everywhere west of 
> Kingston, which only has spots of power on.  I snapped a few photos 
> when we went out on Sunday.  I was not particularly concerned about 
> composition, etc. in these — just tried to catch the enormity of the 
> whole thing quickly before my camera got soaked.  So, here's what it 
> looked like in our little area.
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> Best,
> Steve & Peg
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> The Esopus Creek overflowed by about 25 ft., flowed across the town of 
> Boiceville (3 miles south us) and cut RT 28, the major thru road for 
> the area.  The art gallery and the Trail Motel got flooded out — I 
> hope the guests had left because otherwise they'd have nothing left:
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> Here's our local IGA supermarket in Boiceville.  It ended up with four 
> feet of mud throughout the inside and probably will not re-open for 
> six months.
> The only other supermarket in the area, the A&P in Margaretville (30 
> minutes farther up the road) rebuilt only 2 years ago, was also 
> completely wrecked by flooding as was most of downtown Margaretville:
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> Chris Johannsen and his wife Cindy own a log home building business.  
> This was their model home for show in Boiceville.  They were also the 
> dog breeders from whom we got our chocolate lab Winnie 14 years ago; 
> on the left side parked on the porch is a classic, customized Harley 
> half submerged (I'm told it was a $25,000 bike); the lights on the car 
> were still flashing:
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> Art's Florist Video has been put out of business. We patronized Art's 
> shop for many years for movie rentals:
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> Our neighborhood farm stand in Mt. Tremper:
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> The Esopus flooded out Mt. Tremper, where we reside.  In the 
> background is the RT 28 bridge over the creek, except the creek here 
> is flowing over the bridge:
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> This is Nelson, a Mt. Tremper resident, taking a picture of his mobile 
> home that the creek nearly completely submerged:
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> Nelson points to his submerged mobile home in the background between 
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> The creek raging over the RT. 28 bridge:
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> The Mt. Tremper Post Office (white building in the background):
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> Here's our swimming hole on the Esopus Creek at the Mt. Pleasant 
> bridge (long closed).  Usually the water is about 15 feet below the 
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> We tried to drive to Phoenicia (3 miles north of our house) to check 
> out our friend's Sue&Ken's home there, but a mile short of the town 
> the road was completely flooded out and impassable.
> The flood tossed around camper trailers at a local camp ground on 
> Plank Road to Phoenicia:
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> After the  waters receded, cars that were washed away in Mt. Tremper:
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