I could not believe all of the roads that were flooded after the storm tonight. Curry rd under the bridge was flooded right out. A ton of side streets were flooded as well. Guilderland Ave by the old ekards was flooded. A car was stuck in water on broadway by westcott and was being towed.
It was a wicked storm!
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the.pope
July 16, 2009, 8:08pm
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the was much standing water along the southern boarder, along with lots of leave loss
light hail in the fort hunter area
sunrise blvd is a muddy mess
with more overhead wires than a third world county in Rotterdam it is amazing very little power was lost
Storm brings hail, flooding, outages BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Steven Cook at 395-3122 or scook@dailygazette.net. Gazette reporter Lee Coleman contributed to this article.
Fast-moving thunderstorms dumped more than a half-inch of rain in a half hour Thursday evening, dropped hail and knocked out power to thousands. Lightning strikes to transmission lines in the town of Moreau helped knock power out to an estimated 44,000 people, mainly in Saratoga County and Glenville, National Grid officials said. Most were expected to be back online by midnight or the early morning hours. Generators helped keep the Saratoga County Fair going strong through the surrounding blackout. Flash flooding in Schenectady caused cars braving the deep to stall. Rescuers searched the flooded Crane Street near the suddenly aptly named Lakeview Avenue after a report that someone had been swept up in floodwaters. The search turned up nothing but flood debris. Albany International Airport recorded 0.61 inches of rain, which began at 5:19 p.m. and ended 32 minutes later, National Weather Service meteorologist Ray O’Keefe said. “The total itself isn’t all that great,” O’Keefe said, “but the fact that it fell in that short period of time creates some issues for storm drains to handle it.” O’Keefe, of Schenectady, said his wife reported that their home rain gauge tallied one inch of rain. Perhaps the biggest feature of Thursday’s storm was hail, O’Keefe said. The worst was centered around Albany, with numerous reports of inch-wide stones, the largest reported in McKownville at 2.5 inches. Rotterdam had a report of one-inch hail. Elsewhere in Schenectady, several cars were reported stalled in floodwaters, with the occupants getting out safely. Basements were flooded as well. A tree behind a house on Stanley Street was hit by lightning, Deputy Fire Chief Rod Rosate said. “There was flooding in all the usual places,” Rosate said as the search on Crane Street wrapped up, “but so far, we haven’t had anyone get hurt.” No other reports came in later. In the county, wires were down and basements and streets flooded. At least one tree fell on a house, county Fire Coordinator John Nuzback said. Then, there were the stalled cars. “People still drive through standing water — what can I tell you?” Nuzback said. The search on Crane Street drew a crowd as searchers used poles to find anything in the standing water. They also cleared drains to get the water level down. Among those watching the effort was Betsy McKoy, who lives nearby. She said she didn’t immediately realize why rescuers were there. ...........>>>>...............>>>>...........http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01501
someday when our bodies dont move and we need to rely on someone else to get us to the places we used to 'feel' we will miss the 'fear', smell, feel, sight etc............
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