IrishRob17

Upton just hoisted a Flash Flood Watch for me as well: * A cold frontal passage will produce a round of showers and thunderstorms across the area late Wednesday into Wednesday night. Due to wet antecedent conditions, the area is susceptible to flooding.

Literally LOL, I can totally relate. Be proud your kids are that way, good job Mom and Dad.

Did you force your kids to sleep on that wet grass last night like you were planning to do or let them wait a couple days?

FAIL

Agreed. A 72/52 split here. Currently 64/59.

Many, many, moons ago I used to play around the Fishkill Creek as it ran behind the apartment complex I lived in. It wasn’t as many moons ago though as @BxEngine

Clearly you followed the no swimming sign

Can a get a "Was born in New Hampshire and wish I still lived there" option?

According to this article the fatalities were even higher than that: https://www.poconorecord.com/article/20150818/news/150819477

My take on the lawn has changed over the years. As much I like a good looking lawn, worn out spots don't bother me like they used to, they show life has happened, which is always a good thing IMO.

Oh come on! You gotta your kids tough! Get those tents up today.

I feel like Liberty Bell this morning just firing of all kinds of individual posts, LOL., but I digress. Now this may come as surprise to some but I'm not a hydrologist, nor do I play one on TV, but here are this mornings screen grabs of the gauge in Middletown, which is up stream from and the one at Gardiner. You can see the Gardiner gauge has dropped more than the one upstream in Middletown so I have to wonder if the dams I mentioned in between them is the reason why.

4/16/07 I have 5.68" of rain and a note on major flooding through out the region. I know that there was water on NYS 416 for that one. So my records we not as detailed back in 2005 but I did record 14.81" in the first two weeks of October and have noted the following: 10/7-10/8: 8.51" 10/12-10/13: 4.66" 10/14: 1.64"

Slowly receding, this mornings photo

My area faired better yesterday than 07 too

I don’t have access to my records right now but I believe there were multiple big events that month here in Orange so likely over there too. I’ll check in the morning.

I’m betting I’ll get foiled again tomorrow night anyway, too much moisture around me still this early in the season.

It’s higher here than this morning, you can tell by the fence posts. We’ll see how it looks in the morning.

7/3/21 low was 58. I did have a low of 50 on 8/3/21 but no 40's.

The last time I saw 40's for a low was on 6/25, hoping that streak ends tomorrow night.

Correct, flow is south to north which many do not realize. Based on the gauge near ORMC it looks to crest soon https://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv/?site_no=01370520&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060,62614,72020,00062,00010,99904,99905 The gauge at Gardiner is showing a crest today as well https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=okx&gage=grdn6 One thing that I did notice after Irene and Lee was that the Gardiner gauge was below flood stage while much of Orange County was still dealing with flooding for days/weeks afterwards. I always guessed that was due to the dams in Montgomery and Walden but don't know that for sure. So while the crest happens today it'll be interesting to see how long it takes to drop overall. The gauge near ORMC was not there back then.

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/href/

Thank you. I should've noted that the Wallkill was already a bit higher than normal in that first photo.

Here’s the Boat Launch on the Wallkill near my house. First is a little after 4pm yesterday and the second is a little before 8am this morning.