Spring is in the air! Spring is in the air!

Oh boy - more heavy rain is coming for the weekend. I wonder if I'll be heading up there to deal with another 50 year flood (the third in the past 3 years)...

Oh well, at least no one can say we're having a drought...
 
Can we organize a water mercy mission to GA? I hear they could use the water.
 
Yes Pete it looks like another bout of high water. At least it's the weekend. Hopefully there was enough melting and runoff to keep it low.
I don't think the projections are all that bad at this point, it's just that the Rondout rsvr is at the action stage now.

PS.

Next time you have a portrait taken would you stand to your left a little more? Yer blocking the view ;)
 
I do like his car however. Why is he allowed to park it on the grass? Is that a bonus you get from driving a pink Jeep?
 
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I do like his car however. Why is he allowed to park it on the grass? Is that a bonus you get from driving a pink Jeep?

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Matches Pete's thong!
 
Pete in a thong is a visual I do not want to have...... and I am sure no one else does either....
 
Pete bad news. They bumped it to 19 feet. That's a foot higher up stream from us so with high tide a couple hours after the crest this could be ugly in the wee hours of the morning.
 
http://newweb.erh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=aly&gage=rosn6&type=0 Oh f[:-censored]k. THAT is really not the news I wanted to hear. We're defintely going to have water in the parking lot now. Not enough to float the boats, in all likelihood, but perhaps enough to cause damage to some of the low lying fixtures and perhaps some of the small, trailered dinghies...
 
But they changed it again to 18.3 max! I looked at the radar images and we were lucky enough to wind up in a void the storm had so we did not get that much rain last night. Hopefully this storm doesn't produce all the water it was originally projected to.
 
I was talking to some friends up there this morning and they concur with your sentiments, Dan. Plus I saw the flood gauge reports too. I'm still on standby to run up there and deal with potential flooding, but we're at condition X-Ray instead of Zed [:-captain] ...
 
We passed by an hour before high tide and it seemed well enough. But the creek is certainly a foot higher now. Downtown roads are not passable from millens in to rosita's. She's pro'ly gonna get her feet wet again.
 
They updated the predictions again. 19.9 which is up there, and it crests with high tide early in the morning. Hope you folks are all ok.

Update:

So here we are at 10:15 and the Rondout reservoir has exceeded predictions.. I've received phone calls about the Delaware and the management of the reservoirs from some folks indicating that they are dumping into the Rondout rsv. from others. Given (in the recent past) the 'shokan was going down while the Rondout was going up it seems to lend credence to the notion.

We hope the folks at the Anchorage survive the high tide tonite.
 
Stayed on the boat last night. The winds were INCREDIBLE!!!!!! Even at the south side of Haverstraw marina it was pretty rocky.

I have to say, Fisher makes incredibly strong canvas covers. The thing was rippling pretty well and took everything thrown at her.
 
I know the winds up here were powerful also!
 
Congratulations John!!!

First night on the boat this year for HRCC!!!
 
Thanks Mike, thinking about setting up the grill for this years first wings on the water feast! ;)
 
"We hope the folks at the Anchorage survive the high tide tonite. "

Thanks, Dan. You of all people know how nasty it can get up there...

I was up there till 3AM (2AM EST) yesterday. The overnight high tide got high enough to touch the keels of most boats, with a few submerged halfway up the props. But thankfully the peak was a shade under 19 feet, and I had been able to get up there in the afternoon while the roads were still open and move the only boat I was really concerned about - that damn 17' Bayliner I'm trying to sell for Charlie since last summer - to higher ground and put the bilge plugs in the bigger boats. I do have one nice souvenir for my troubles - a big goose-egg on my left arm because I was walking around at midnight trying to explain to Mark DeMartini where the water level was when I went literally flying on some ice. My cell phone ended up in the drink (which is USUALLY 50 feet from the waterline!) but thankfully I grabbed it and it dried out okay overnight...

BTW, yesterday is one of those days where being a former meteorologist comes in handy. The flood forecast early in the day was for a peak around 18.3 feet (flood stage is right at 18) at Rosendale. That usually would mean very minor flooding, and I wasn't even going to go up there. Then I noticed a huge amount of heavy rain on the INTELLICAST.COM radar loops, and all of it was west of the Hudson over the watersheds of the Wallkill, Rondout, and Esopus. Why did this matter? Well, because I also went on the National weather service site http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ndfd/graphical/sectors/okx.php (the one they asked about on that survey some of you did for me online or at the White Plains Boat Show) and if you looked at the QPF (Quantitative Precipitation Forecast) you noticed that all the heaviest rains, by far, had been forecast to be well to the EAST of the Hudson...

Why is this important??? Because I am more than sure that the schlub who puts the creek forecasts together over at AHPS was probably not doing anything on his own volition but rather basing his forecast off the official estimate that all the rain was going to be off to the east! That HAD to mean the creek forecast was going to be wrong (as it sure was!) by at least a foot in my impromptu guess work. So off to the Anchorage I went in the afternoon...

My wife was pi$$ed - it was to be our first afternoon without Jonathan around for quite awhile, but I had to tell her "first things first." Gotta keep my priorities straight, you know [:-mischievous]. (sigh), I guess it will be awhile before I "get any" now...
 
Pete glad to hear things went as well as they could under the circumstances. At this point I'd say we dodged a bullet because of the snow cap and heavy rain. Yesterday we drove around to the spillway from the 'shokan and it was indeed roaring. When I walked over the bridge the temperature shift from the mist etc. had to be 10 or fifteen degrees.
PS there's still snow in the mountains. Let's hope it melts before the next storm comes this weekend.
 
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