[AT] OT - Remnants of Ivan

[Mike Sloane]

A local retired state trooper sent me 6 meg of images he took before and 
after the rains, illustrating much of what Rob mentioned. If anyone is 
interested, I will post some of the more interesting ones on my Fotki site.

We had 7" of rain in my gauge on Saturday morning, and the little stream 
that runs down 1/4 mile of my property line overflowed and ran over the 
road where the culvert was too small to handle it. Aside from water in 
my dug cellar, which is unfortunately normal for a very heavy rainfall, 
we had no damage. Just two weeks ago, I used the Case 430CK with loader 
and a neighbor's JD 530D TLB to rework the drainage ditches along our 
private dirt lane, and the effort paid off very well, as all the water 
was carried off the lane with no damage to the fragile surface. I did 
post a few images at: 
<http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/kasper_road_allamuchy/kasper_road/page2.html>

I have 5 tractors (Case 430CK, Farmall H, 560, and two Cubs) that don't 
fit into storage buildings and have to be kept outdoors. I have blue 
plastic tarps over them, and all did fine - there was plenty of wind, 
but nothing at all compared to what they got down in the LA/FL/AL 
regions over the last several weeks.

Mike

Rob Gray wrote:

> Did anyone else get water damage in the northeast from the remnants of 
> Ivan? I had some significant water and wind damage on my place 
> although nothing like those folks down in the Florida panhandle and 
> surrounding areas. I had several trees down on my lane, sections of my 
> lane washed out, water over my pond's dam, and flooding in my basement 
> (which had never occured in the house since my grandpa bought it in 
> 1950). Locally we had flooding not seen in these parts since hurricane 
> Agnes hit in the early 70's (although Agnes was worse). The high water 
> on the Delaware River threatened the old bridge at Easton, PA which 
> had withstood all floods since its construction in 1870 or so. It was 
> amazing to see water touching the bottom of the bridge road bed when 
> the river surface is usually over 30 feet below the bridge. The bridge 
> at Belvidere, NJ was also in danger but seems to have made it now that 
> waters are receding. The number of roads washed out near me is also 
> significant. Ivan snuck up on a lot of people up here.......
>
> Rob
> Northampton County, PA
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Mike Sloane
Allamuchy NJ
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