{"id":4170,"date":"2011-04-30T16:46:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T20:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2011-05-05T09:37:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T13:37:02","slug":"flood-update-tupper-lake-struggling-saranac-lake-stabilizing-lake-champlain-just-warming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/30\/flood-update-tupper-lake-struggling-saranac-lake-stabilizing-lake-champlain-just-warming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood Update: Tupper Lake struggling, Saranac Lake stabilizing, Lake Champlain “just warming up”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m just back from a loop through Tupper Lake and the situation there remains pretty dire.\u00a0 Officials at the command center at the village fire hall say the Raquette River is still rising.<\/p>\n

Whole neighborhoods there are heavily impacted by high water.\u00a0 Just reaching the community from the east on Rt. 3 requires driving through a flooded section of highway, which is down to a single lane.<\/p>\n

Saranac Lake’s business district is also still struggling with high water, though officials report that the amount of water pressing against bridges has subsided slightly.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service is reporting that the Schroon River remains three feet above flood stage.<\/p>\n

Also, at 8pm last night, Lake Champlain hit 102.7 feet, establishing yet another flood record.<\/p>\n

The Burlington Free Press reports<\/a> that Governor Peter Shumlin toured the flood-struck coast yesterday, the same day that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was in Moriah, New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really aren\u2019t at the bottom of this one yet,\u201d Shumlin said. \u201cIf you\u2019re around the lake area, we\u2019re just warming up.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, here’s a Youtube video of the flooding at Long Lake, with a Johnny Cash soundtrack no less.<\/p>\n