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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.

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23A closed between Hunter and Palenville

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Update, 3pm: 23A now open to one lane.

Via NY-Alert: Due to flooding damage, Route 23A in Greene County is closed between White Road in Palenville and Sunset Road in Hunter while road crews work to repair it. (See map above.)

WRIP's Jay Fink writes on the radio station's Facebook group:

1:30p Update - Motorists are advised that Route 23A is closed between the Hunter/Catskill town line and Haines Falls in Greene County due to flooding. DOT crews are on-scene and expect to reopen the road to alternating one-way traffic early this afternoon. Repairs to three culverts along the stretch of road are ongoing and DOT will reopen the road to two lanes of traffic as quickly as possible.

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Livingston Manor homes and bridges damaged by flood

Above: Flood damage in front of a house at 66 Main Street in Livingston Manor. Photo by Chris Andreola; courtesy of Livingston Manor Ink. Manor Ink writes: "This photo is of Main Street in front of old ADC Studio, also known as Chris Andreola's place, across from Will Hardware. Looks like Cattail seriously jumped its banks. Further down on Main Street, we hear CAS [Catskill Art Society] took on some water and is calling for clean up help."

Two homes and three bridges were damaged during last night's flooding in Livingston Manor, when the Cattail Creek jumped its banks and carved a new channel down Main Street.

Rockland town supervisor Edward Weitmann told the Watershed Post that the flooding was made worse by trees that fell into the creek and were swept downstream. Neither the Willowemoc nor the Little Beaverkill caused flood problems, he said.

"We had so many trees come down and block culverts and bridges that the water jumped the normal banks and went down Shandelee Road," he said.

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Upper Oliverea Road closed due to flooding

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Town of Shandaken officials tell us that Oliverea Road is closed above the intersection with Deer Lane. The Onteora School District announced this morning that they were unable to pick up students from over a dozen families affected by the road closing, and that it was unclear when the road would open again.

Oliverea Road is the only road still closed in Shandaken, officials say. On Tuesday night, several other roads in Phoenicia and Oliverea were closed due to flooding.

The town remains under a state of emergency until all roads can be assessed.

Below: Photo of cleanup on Oliverea Road, taken this morning by Watershed Post reader Aaron Bennett. "Yes, that is a couch on the right side," Aaron writes.

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High water at the Phoenicia Main Street bridge

Franz Edlinger captured this brief clip of water surging under the Main Street Bridge in Phoenicia around 8:45 today. Posted on Facebook.

Earlier: State of emergency declared in Shandaken.

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Minor flooding forecast in Prattsville

The National Weather Service is predicting minor flooding at the Schoharie Creek in Prattsville between now and early Wednesday morning.

According to the latest forecast, the creek is expected to crest at 12.5 feet around 2am and then begin to recede. At 13 feet, basements in downtown Prattsville begin flooding.

Below: An NWS hydrograph showing the forecast for the creek levels.

Schoharie Creek at Prattsville

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Flooding in Livingston Manor and around Sullivan County

The Times Herald-Record reports that flash flooding rose quickly in downtown Livingston Manor earlier this evening, and a hazard was issued by the county around 6:30pm.

Here's a photo shared on Facebook by Michael Ortiz:

A reader on our Facebook wall wrote around 9pm:

"Livingston Manor Flooded, The road near the firehouse is a river. Parksville and other areas near the Little beaverkill is flooded."

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Flash flood warning for Margaretville and Arkville

The National Weather Service warns that the East Branch of the Delaware River is expected to crest above flood stage sometime before 2am in Margaretville and Arkville:

3 To 5 Inches Of Rain Has Fallen Across The Warned Area. Minor Flooding On The East Branch Of The Delaware River At Margaretville Is Likely With A Crest Between 11 And 12 Feet. At 11 Feet...Water Begins To Inundate Low Lying Areas Of The Village Park In Margaretville. At 11.5 Feet...The Parking Lot Of A Super Market In Margaretville Floods With Further Inundation Of Village Park. Minor Flooding Is Also Likely On The Dry Brook At Arkville.

Readers, keep us posted on what you're seeing on the ground: email us at [email protected], or leave a comment below or on our Facebook wall.

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Thousands without power across the Catskills region

High winds are taking out power lines across upstate New York tonight, leaving tens of thousands of people without power.

As of this post, Central Hudson is reporting that 29,961 of its upstate New York customers have power outages. NYSEG has 22,056 customers without power. And National Grid has 12,384 customers without power.

Within the Catskills region, Ulster County appears to be the hardest hit by power outages, with 8,936 affected Central Hudson customers and 230 NYSEG customers as of the time of this post.

Central Hudson, NYSEG and National Grid all have live updating maps of power outages. Click the links above to see current maps and estimated power restoration times, if the company has them.

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