Livingston Manor flooding: "This happens once a year now"

Top: Main Street Livingston Manor at 9pm, September 18, at approximately the high point of flooding. Photo by Kurt Knuth.
Above: Main Street Livingston Manor, filmed last night by Kurt Knuth.

More photos and images are coming in from Livingston Manor, the Sullivan County hamlet that appears to have borne the worst of last night's flooding in the Catskills region.

Kurt Knuth lives in an apartment on Main Street in the hamlet, which gave him a front row seat to the floodwaters that covered the streets. In an email, Knuth wrote that it wasn't just the Cattail Creek that flooded, although that stream probably caused the most severe damage.

"The Little Beaverkill river did indeed also overrun its banks along Pearl Street and added to the volume of water on the streets," he wrote.

Knuth, who manages Livingston Manor's community garden, is getting jaded about the flooding, which seems to happen on an annual basis.

"This happens once a year now," he told the Watershed Post today in a telephone interview. "The community garden was destroyed yet again. This is the fourth time in a row this has happened."

Below: Bridge over the Cattail Brook at Finch St. was significantly damaged. The other bridge serving the Finch St. neighborhood, at Hoos St., was destroyed. Photo and caption by Kurt Knuth.