Prattsville lost a lot more than bricks and mortar in the Irene floods.

The Daily Mail reports that most of the town's financial records for the 2011 fiscal year were destroyed in last year's epic flooding, making a proper audit of the town's books impossible. A recent federal audit of town finances, required because of the amount of money Prattsville has received from FEMA, didn't have much to go on:

Providing background, the report states, “substantially all of the town's books of original entry; the general and subsidiary ledgers; related accounting manuals records such as work sheet and spreadsheets supporting cost allocations; computations and reconciliations; as well as substantially all corroborating evidence in support of the financial statements were destroyed by Hurricane Irene and the subsequent flooding which also destroyed the town's headquarters.

“The scope of our work was not sufficient to enable us to express, and we do not express, an opinion on the financial statements,” the report states.

Just a couple of months ago, we were worried about the mighty Kaaterskill Falls, which was reduced to a mere trickle by mid-summer drought. A little rain makes all the difference.

Reader Jennifer Strom sent us this recent photo of Bastion Falls in full roar, half a mile downstream from the Kaaterskill. The photo was taken late Friday afternoon by her husband Bill Strom.

Below: Video taken Saturday at Kaaterskill Falls by Thomas Keane.

Correction: The waterfall in the photo above is Bastion Falls, not Kaaterskill, as we'd originally captioned it. Thanks to John O'Grady for spotting the error.

Bertha Rogers, a well-known poet in the region and the founder of the Bright Hill Press and Literary Center in Franklin, was badly hurt in a car accident on Route 6 in the town of Woodbury on Tuesday.

According to an account of the accident from the Mid-Hudson News Network, Rogers was traveling eastbound on Route 6 when another car, which had been rear-ended by a driver distracted by glare, crossed into oncoming traffic and hit Rogers's car. Rogers was trapped in her car and had to be extricated by the Jaws of Life.

The Daily Star reports that Rogers broke both her legs in the accident, and has had surgery to place three pins in her legs. Rogers, who is 71, is beginning to improve, said her husband, Ernest Fishman: