USA - New York, Catskill, Another Catskill River Flood Alert

Another text from Bob, alerting us that our area is expecting thunderstorms, and although we’d only get 1-3 inches of rain, up in the Catskill Mountains, they’re expecting 4-6 inches of rain, all of which drains into the Catskill River, and once again we were on 24 hours Watch of Flash Flood Alert!

It was high tide and I rushed outside to take photos as a reference to ‘see’ how high the water was getting.

This is the strut which ‘ties’ the walk-on pontoons to the shore. At high-tide, the strut is slightly ‘Up’ on the walk-on side. During Hurricane Irene in 2011, these walk-ons rose so high that the floated off the shore side pins, and docks and boats floated down the Catskill River into the Hudson River and South……, not something we want for Meshugga, as our Mast is SO tall (120 foot),  that we’d hit the Kingston Bridge 20 miles south with any rise in Hudson River waters. Hence our stress with Flash Flooding. We need to be aboard so that incase of ‘floating off’ the pins we can go into the Hudson River and anchor Meshugga out of the main current, and be Safe!

For reference, this is the Boardwalk at Low Tide

A close up of the Pin side at HighTide, as a reference for Flooding.

Time is important too, to determine the state of the tide.

We were most surprised when we got to the Catskill Marina to find that, although we knew it’d be tidal, it had a HUGE tide of over 1 meter, which we did not expect as we’re 120 miles upriver from the sea.

All ended well with the rise in water coordinating with Low Tide, and no discernible difference at High Tide. Quite a strong river flow kept up all day and next with logs and tree trunks flowing past us.

However, today is a sunny but cool Sunday
 

The Catskill Cruisers facilities, a Tent with tables, BBQ’s, Firepit, Rest Room and Shower facilities

Nicholas on Wifi

Unfortunately my MacBook Air, has some problem. He is online to Kieran to help with computer stuff. Seems like my MacBook Air is stuffed and needs a total reboot, clean out etc etc. This will take many hours at this Cruisers setup where there is a good wifi signal.Unfortunately on  Meshugga we are too far away to get a strong signal. I guess I’ll be sitting here tomorrow for 5 hours, whilst my MacBook Air updates, ……. reading Outlander book 5…… I can’t think of anything worse…. Just saying