Greene County
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 8, 2011 - 10:56 pm
View from Overlook Mountain near Woodstock. Photo by Flickr user Miss K; published under Creative Commons license.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced today that because of dangerous conditions in the wake of widespread... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 5:24 pm
From the governor's office: Residents of Schoharie Valley and Catskills should be on alert tonight for more rain. Specific warnings are made for western Delaware County, particularly Unadilla -- see the highlighted areas in bold:
Governor Cuomo Orders... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 12:58 pm
We'll be doing another special flooding edition of our radio show at 1pm today. Listen live by clicking here.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 12:21 pm
Greene County sent us this press release this morning:
GREENE COUNTY PRESS RELEASE 9/7/11 AT 9:15 A.M.
Due to excessive rainfall within the last 24-36 hours and the projected rainfall through 6:00 p.m. today, Greene County storm efforts are shifting back... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 11:04 am
Update, 11:00am: The shelter currently operating at the upper lodge at Belleayre is still open, although the FEMA office at the lower lodge is closed for the day. From the Town of Middletown recovery website:
The Belleayre Mountain Recovery Center is open... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 10:16 am
10:15am: The order to evacuate Prattsville immediately has been taken down a notch, according to Shaun Groden, the Greene County administrator, who was just on WRIP in Windham again a moment ago. Groden is now saying that Prattsville residents should be... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011 - 9:24 am
9:30am: From WRIP this morning -- several callers reported floodwaters over roads around Greene County.
Joe Loverro reports:
A bridge over Mill Street Windham is 4 or 5 inches over. Stay off County Rt 10 in Ashland. Minor flooding predicted in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 6, 2011 - 2:55 pm
According to Ulster County Emergency Communications./Emergency Management Directory Arthur Snyder, there will be rain moving through the Catskills tonight, and nobody really know how much. From his email earlier today:
Special attention to all those... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 6, 2011 - 1:59 pm
This just in from Greene County this morning:
GREENE COUNTY PRESS RELEASE 9/6/11 AT 10:00 A.M.
By order of the County of Greene, all Greene County school districts are hereby directed to cancel classes for the week of September 6, 2011 through September 9... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 5, 2011 - 1:25 pm
Above: Damage in Prattsville, N.Y. following the floods following the rains of Hurricane Irene. Photo by the New York National Guard, via Flickr.
As of Sunday afternoon, the barricade on SR-23 from Grand Gorge to Prattsville was still up, but was open to... Read more
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