When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Irene: Flood-borne toxins contaminate watershed Sunday, September 4, 2011 By Sara Foss (Contact) Gazette Reporter
CAPITAL REGION — John McKeeby walks along the Schoharie Creek, picking his way through a nature preserve once covered with ferns and poison ivy but now a landscape of gray sand and sticky mud.
He points to his neighbors’ possessions.
A yellow wall ripped from a house half a mile down the road is tangled in uprooted trees and limbs. Electrical outlets and plumbing fixtures poke through the wreckage; underwear, jackets and shirts dangle from branches. Two oil tanks rest on the battered shore.
McKeeby, 51, is the executive director of the Schoharie River Center, a nonprofit organization in the hard-hit Montgomery County community of Burtonsville that monitors the water quality of the Schoharie Creek and provides educational and cultural programming.
The center’s modest headquarters emerged from Hurricane Irene unscathed, but the storm left its mark on the organization’s 20-acre nature preserve, which borders the Schoharie Creek. Piles of debris stretch for about 500 feet, and many of these piles are between 10 and 15 feet tall; jagged scraps of roofs and walls trapped high in trees provide startling evidence of just how high the flood waters rose.
By midweek the creek had receded, though its oceanic roar could still be heard from a short distance away and its waters remained the color of chocolate milk. The smell was also unusual: a musty mix of raw sewage and oil that served as an unpleasant reminder of the pollution caused by last week’s ferocious flooding.
“When there’s a flood like this, everything washes in — soil, fertilizers, waste, heating oil,” McKeeby said. “In Schoharie County, we’ve had houses picked up and washed into the river. We’ve seen heating oil tanks and cars in the river. In terms of pollution issues, all that stuff is washed down into the watershed.” The larger debris washed up on shore, where it could cause problems by leaking and contaminating the soil, McKeeby said..................................................>>>>..................................................>>>>........................................http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2011/sep/04/0904_water/
Stop gnashing teeth about the oil and chemicals spilled. There are people who lost everything. The enviro-nazis want to go out to fine people now- jackaszes. How about "illegal stormwater discharges?" Are they gonna worry about silt contamination in the streams??? Shows how nuts these despicable creeps are.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
There are folks who had cattle that are now roaming free. They are becoming sick from drinking the contaminated water. The farmers are also concerned since they don't know if the ground contamination will prevent them from farming their land next season. This is their livelihood.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Well what can you do about that now. This "cry over spilled milk" thing is bull. Fining people won't change anything and is the most arbitrary and capricious of all imaginable things.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
The news you read is not hype By Leslie Hyland Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The following is an email sent by Leslie Hyland, a nurse who lives in Glenville, to friends after she spent a long day in flood-ravaged Schoharie County working with a team of nurses from Schenectady County.
Dear Friends,
I just spent the day with a team of nurses from the Schenectady County Medical Reserve Corps and Health Department giving tetanus boosters to people affected by the flooding in the Schoharie Valley.
We walked a road along the still raging river giving shots to utility workers, emergency personnel, and residents digging in the muck in and around their houses or, in many cases, what is left of houses in Esperance, then went on to the Elks Club set up as a emergency center and the firehouse in Central Bridge to inoculate the firemen and 30-plus residents of the town who wandered in.
I was not in the worst area, which is around the town of Schoharie, but the folks I met are for the most part without power, camping out on their property or staying with relatives. If they haven’t lost their homes, they are helping those who have. The contaminated mud and water, debris and destroyed property are everywhere. It’s difficult to describe.
When I left the Emergency Command Center in Cobleskill, there was no more vaccine and they didn’t know if any more would become available. All the emergency agencies are there that you can think of, including the National Guard, but the need is so scattered and widespread that communication and organization are loose and less than effective.
I am sending this to you to make you aware on a personal level that the news you read is not hype.
The people living in this beautiful agricultural area, which being viewed from I-88 looks unscathed, need help and will for a long time!
They are our neighbors in a less than affluent area, and many have lost absolutely everything. For many of us who buy local, it is our bread basket, so please find a way to help and tell your friends and neighbors not to forget as other news takes over the front pages. The email below is from Phil Metzger, a wonderful farmer from the area. It gives a glimpse of what is needed [not clothes].
The newspapers have been listing the groups that are collecting and providing aid. If you are able and want to give physical help, please get in touch with one of the social services agencies instead of just showing up, which would add to the general confusion...................................>>>>.......................................>>>>......................................http://www.dailygazette.com/weblogs/stories-flood/2011/sep/06/90611_flood-stories/
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