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Upstate NY is drowning! At least, my county is. It’s been raining all week, so the ground was saturated, and then this afternoon it really started raining! Must be the kind of downpour they get in Texas all the time. I can’t even check how fast it was coming down, because everyone in town is doing the same thing and the weather sites won’t load. What’s causing landslides and washing out roads is “just” runoff, but runoff like I’ve never seen. Yet even with our high water table we are doing all right, because years ago my DH built a pond several hundred feet uphill and directly behind our house. This pond has been a great disappointment to us because it has a slow leak and has never held water longterm:
But in a situation like this it acts like a reservoir and redirects the runoff to the edge of the property:
I’m feeling very blessed right now.
Please note: None of the photos in this post are recent. They are for illustrative purposes only. It was dark when all the excitement was going on; I couldn’t have photographed it if I wanted to. And there’s no snow on the ground at the moment. I’ve mentioned it before, so I’m not sure if I need to mention it again: hover your cursor over each photo for the date and other info. I’m sure there’s a way to make captions for the photos, but I haven’t figured it out yet.–KP
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Carol
// Nov 16, 2006 at 9:56 pm
It’s also raining in Central Indiana. Wet, cold, dreary, blah weather. The ground is saturated. No hope now of digging any new beds. The ground will freeze in a few weeks. But, I’m thankful no flood warnings and no tornadoes!
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cyndy
// Nov 17, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Glad the pond held it’s own in the downpours- our river is high and muddy, but we are high and dry…it has been quite the year for flooding in our neck of the woods…
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Ki
// Nov 17, 2006 at 7:19 pm
Hey, you guys are sending all that water downstream to us NJerseyers and we’re about to drown
I just heard on NPR that the Delaware river commission has told NY to release water from their dams so in case it rain again the reservoirs will have enough capacity to hold back the water. Apparently NY is doing just that but the flood gates are too small making it a long process to draw down the reservoirs. Apparently they foresee releasing water until June!!! Yowww.
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Kathy Purdy
// Nov 17, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Cyndy, I kow you are right by the river. Does that ever get scary? Have you ever had to evacuate?
Ki, it’s so crazy. As a gardener I’m still scarred by the memories of the dry years, when there wasn’t enough water in any reservoir. Now we can’t give it away fast enough!
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kerri
// Nov 17, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Kathy, you probably saw during your visit to my blog today that our road flooded again last night. All was well this morning though. There sure is plenty of water in the river just below us. It’s hard to imagine a dry year at the moment!
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