{"id":4160,"date":"2011-04-28T17:54:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T21:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2011-05-05T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T13:36:36","slug":"sandbags-flooded-basements-and-more-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/28\/sandbags-flooded-basements-and-more-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandbags, flooded basements, and more to come"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>I just spent the day navigating a long, clumsy loop from Saranac Lake over to Lake Placid then down the Ausable River valley.\u00a0 Then down the shore of Lake Champlain.<\/p>\n

I saw a landscape transformed by water.<\/p>\n

These rivers haven’t just broken out of their banks, they’ve exploded.\u00a0 I saw one stretch of the Ausable River where the woods on both<\/em> sides were flooded for roughly half a mile.<\/p>\n

Ausable Chasm looked like the spout of a fire hose.<\/p>\n

And then there’s the Lake Champlain shore, where many towns have significant amounts of their waterfront districts half-submerged.<\/p>\n

The ferry dock in Essex?\u00a0 An island of stranded structures.\u00a0\u00a0 The Westport Marina?\u00a0 I stood in the flooded dining room and it looked like a scene from Poseidon Adventure.<\/p>\n

Everywhere I went, small groups of people were sandbagging, setting up concrete levies, and pumping basements.<\/p>\n

The most dramatic scene?\u00a0 A standing wall of water is throwing itself against the old stone buildings on the waterfront in Keeseville.<\/p>\n

Amazing that those structures can withstand ten minutes of that punishment, let alone days of it.\u00a0 I guess people knew how to build a foundation once upon a time.<\/p>\n

One practical footnote:\u00a0 travel through the mountains is difficult, with roads closed, long detours, and even the open routes often partially flooded with standing water.<\/p>\n

If you can avoid setting off into that mess the next couple of days, that’s probably the better part of valor.<\/p>\n

Tune in tomorrow morning during Morning Edition and the 8 O’clock Hour for reports from Saranac Lake, Potsdam, Keeseville, Essex and Westport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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