{"id":5808,"date":"2012-04-13T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T10:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2012-04-13T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:52:41","slug":"morning-read-remembering-the-flood-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/04\/13\/morning-read-remembering-the-flood-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Remembering the Flood of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5809\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/04\/13\/morning-read-remembering-the-flood-of-2011\/aint-life-grand\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5809\" title=\"ain't life grand\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/aint-life-grand-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/aint-life-grand-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/aint-life-grand-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/aint-life-grand-450x328.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/04\/aint-life-grand.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20120413\/NEWS02\/120412039\/Year-passes-since-Lake-Champlain-flood-began-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE\">Burlington Free Press<\/a> notes that a year ago today the waters of Lake Champlain rose above flood stage, launching a battle for survival that gripped the valley for months.\u00a0 (The lake didn&#8217;t drop below flood stage again until June 19th.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A near record snow pack in the early spring, followed by an April that  became the wettest on record contributed to a large part of the  flooding.<\/p>\n<p>During the long lake flood, road crews worked for  weeks dumping countless tons of rocks along lakeshore roads to prevent  them from eroding in the waves. Camp owners also tried to fortify their  property, or watched helplessly as waves battered through camp walls and  living spaces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The lake flooding was astonishing.\u00a0 I remember time and time again standing in places and just being flabbergasted that the high water had reached places that seemed untouchable.<\/p>\n<p>I snapped the picture above while driving through a neighborhood in Plattsburgh.\u00a0 The good news is that the recovery has been remarkable.\u00a0 Drive along the shore these days and businesses have reopened, roads are back in place.<\/p>\n<p>The effort to bounce back has been just as astonishing as the flood itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burlington Free Press notes that a year ago today the waters of Lake Champlain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4818,877,5685,101,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}