Sunday, March 9, 2008

Rain and Wind

Wow! We had a lot of rain! It poured Friday night and almost all day yesterday. About 8:00 pm the rain stopped and the wind got really crazy. It blew hard until the early hours of the morning. There is still some wind today but not as bad as yesterday. Thank goodness it calmed down, several small branches hit my house last night and it was getting a bit scary. Today is sunny but cold.

The creek came up over NWS flood stage twice this week but I don't think there was any flooding locally.

You can go to the Esopus Creek gage http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv?dd_cd=01%2C05%2C06&format=gif&period=7&site_no=01362500
or the Woodland Valley gage and check it out.
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv/?site_no=0136230002&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060
Scroll to the bottom where it says "gage height, feet".