[AT] OT - Remnants of Ivan

[CEE VILL]

We were promised no rain north of the Pa. state line up here, Cecil.  WRONG. 
That then was changed to no rain north of I-90 and that is about how it 
worked.  Steady rain all day last Friday, but it only totaled around 0.8 
inch, so we are pretty lucky.

Charlie V.


>From: Cecil E Monson <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
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>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Remnants of Ivan
>Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:21:38 -0400
>
>>Did anyone else get water damage in the northeast from the remnants of 
>>Ivan?
>
>
>	We got 4 1/2" of heavy rain that washed the driveway a little
>but thanks to a brainstorm I had a month or so ago, most of the water
>went down a new channel I made with the dozer and did no harm. Our pond
>came close to overflowing but the two large culverts held the overflow
>OK.
>
>	The neighbor behind me whose acre of land borders our land called
>tonight and told me a very large tree that was on our property came down
>during the heavy rain and took 4 or 5 more trees down with it. I didn't
>know anything came down until that moment. I promised to go look at it
>in a day or so and asked him if he could use the firewood. If I am not
>mistaken, it is in an area where it is even difficult to get the dozer.
>
>	Most of the very heavy rain went to the north of us and flooded
>roads in the southern Catskill Mountains that haven't been flooded for
>years, if ever. Portions of Route 17 between Liberty and Roscoe were
>flooded and I saw newsphotos of troopers with the road blocked off. I
>understand those famous trout streams of ours - the Beaverkill and the
>North and West branches of the Delaware were badly flooded and many roads
>were closed. I understand the Neversink and the Willowemoc were also
>overflowing and at flood stage.
>
>	It was one helluva rainstorm and I am not sorry to hear it is
>gone.
>
>Cecil
>--
>The nicest thing about telling the truth is you never have to wonder
>what you said.
>
>Cecil E Monson
>Lucille Hand-Monson
>Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
>
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