More bad weather news. The river near their place was just measured at
about 3 feet over flood stage (18 feet) and is projected to go to 33
feet (0.7 feet shy of the record) about 16 hours from now. There will
be very serious consequences in places much lower than theirs.
<http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=bgm&gage=vstn6&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1%22>
The 48 hour forecast for New York and Pennsylvania. Follow the purple
<http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/forecasts.php?wfo=bgm&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1&toggles=10,7,8,2,9,15,6>
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/7/2011 4:11 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> No, not that Lee. He already came and went a long time ago. It's TS
> Lee. His sister Irene was here earlier and saturated the ground. Now
> Lee has arrived and is dumping very large amounts of water on us again
> and there are flash flood warnings out over 6 or more counties in
> southern New York and northern Pennsylvania. Sorry, Bill B, too bad it
> couldn't have gone to Texas. We have lots and lots of water to spare.
>
> We're on a high hill and well situated to keep our feet dry. But we had
> a call a little while ago from very good friends who live on the banks
> of the Susquehanna River (less than 4 miles away as the crow flies)
> asking if they might stay with us tonight if need be. Their particular
> house is not likely to be threatened by the river but the only entrance
> to their development has a high probability of being underwater tonight.
> They're waiting for word on whether they'll have to evacuate and
> whether the power company will preemptively shut off all the power there.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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