Oh, that's nice. A record flood on the Hudson, now that I've come finally come home, got some shuteye and a shower...
At this point, as far as the Rondout goes, it probably doesn't much matter. The creek is receding, and will be far below flood stage at Rosendale overnight and contine to go down tomorrow. We just survived the 7th largest crest ever on the Rondout, so my guess is that even if the Hudson came up 2 feet higher than normal it couldn't possibly be worse or even equal to what we went through last night...
Of course, if I'm wrong we're going to lose the whole damn marina...
I would be concerned about that Hudson crest tomorrow night though, since if its windy out it could put waves into some of the marina parking lots and shake up a few boats...
Dan, thanks for sharing those pictures!!! Flood0012 shows yours truly in the lead boat trying to pull the "Sea Otter" free. That was a fun one. The 34' Silverton was still stuck on one of its keel blocks but the front jacks had collapsed and it had shifted off of the rear ones. We HAD to get that damn thing free before the tide went down or it would have been a total loss! So I drove, Mark DeMartini and another fellow held on for dear life to that rope, and we pulled like hell, fishtailing all over the place. Meanwhile a couple of other guys in that rubber dinghy used it like a tugboat to push and pull the "Sea Otter's" stern around to try and work it free of the blocks. Finally, with a "WHOOSH" it floated free and all those big, heavy 12x12 blocks just floated right up to the surface...
Then I thought, "how am I going to get this monster through the parking lot?" A quick pow-wow with the other guys in the boat and we decided to just keep on going, straight ahead, across the driveway and over what is normally a tidal mud flat but yesterday had about 5-6 feet of water over it. It worked, with a minimum of fanfare...
Julie had a rough time - the heat, septic, and drinking water is all out of commssion over there, but I talked to her tonight and they're all in good spirits, happy that the immediate crisis is over. We'll get to cleaning this whole mess up over the weekend...
At this point, as far as the Rondout goes, it probably doesn't much matter. The creek is receding, and will be far below flood stage at Rosendale overnight and contine to go down tomorrow. We just survived the 7th largest crest ever on the Rondout, so my guess is that even if the Hudson came up 2 feet higher than normal it couldn't possibly be worse or even equal to what we went through last night...
Of course, if I'm wrong we're going to lose the whole damn marina...
I would be concerned about that Hudson crest tomorrow night though, since if its windy out it could put waves into some of the marina parking lots and shake up a few boats...
Dan, thanks for sharing those pictures!!! Flood0012 shows yours truly in the lead boat trying to pull the "Sea Otter" free. That was a fun one. The 34' Silverton was still stuck on one of its keel blocks but the front jacks had collapsed and it had shifted off of the rear ones. We HAD to get that damn thing free before the tide went down or it would have been a total loss! So I drove, Mark DeMartini and another fellow held on for dear life to that rope, and we pulled like hell, fishtailing all over the place. Meanwhile a couple of other guys in that rubber dinghy used it like a tugboat to push and pull the "Sea Otter's" stern around to try and work it free of the blocks. Finally, with a "WHOOSH" it floated free and all those big, heavy 12x12 blocks just floated right up to the surface...
Then I thought, "how am I going to get this monster through the parking lot?" A quick pow-wow with the other guys in the boat and we decided to just keep on going, straight ahead, across the driveway and over what is normally a tidal mud flat but yesterday had about 5-6 feet of water over it. It worked, with a minimum of fanfare...
Julie had a rough time - the heat, septic, and drinking water is all out of commssion over there, but I talked to her tonight and they're all in good spirits, happy that the immediate crisis is over. We'll get to cleaning this whole mess up over the weekend...
. That "Sea Otter" guy cracked me up - we were pulling down his winter cover for him from in the small boat! I teased him that he could have just asked us to help him take down the cover rather than arrange for all this trouble. He had his engines ready to go, and probably could have just threw the thing in gear and driven out to the creek himself, but we didn't want to take the chance that he'd hit something and wreck a prop or a shaft...
