i have a very personal interest in how things are going in upstate, ny. both of my parents are from up there and my mother is actually from the chenango river valley are, guilford to be exact.
with all the rain the are in and around binghampton and norwich got really f'ed up. there are more than 100 bridges washed out, several of them along major highways. one was for Rt88, which would be equal to rt1 shutting down here in central jersey. when the rt88 bridge let go there were two trucks on it, boith drivers lost their lives.
thankfully my family got away lucky. my cousin lost a field of corn and had serious water in his basement. he also had to move a lot of equipment and about 30 calves out of one barn as the creek that is about 130yards behind his house swelled all teh way across the fields.
it is really amazing how destructive water can be. i have been keeping tabs on my famiuly obviously, but i only looked at the stories and pictures online from teh local papers today.
check it out, some of this **** is jsut nuts.
http://www.thedailystar.com/news/sto...8/flood11.html
if anyone wants a scale of how bad this is, the only flooding in US history that covered more developed land or involved more water was when the mississippi skipped it's banks in the 90's. in total, a few hundred creeks and streams and at least a dozen rivers went over their banks creating billions of dollars in damage.
