09-03-2011, 12:34 AM
Flood footage that a friend from Scotia, NY filmed the other day... wild stuff.
http://youtu.be/XYS2juPez-4
I was lucky not to have experienced what they did west and east of here.
The red portion below is what is featured in this footage... the blue portion also
had flooding from the Hudson River in Troy. As many know, it was even worse in other
areas of the northeast, especially Vermont.
The info:
The hurricane itself wasn't too bad, other than a lot of power outages, but the amount of rain
it dumped into the area all funneled into the Mohawk River causing a surge of water 14' higher
than normal, flooding everything and everyone not lucky enough to be elevated. Because of
so many closed roads and traffic, I biked up and down the Mohawk in Schenectady, Scotia,
and Glenville, shooting some video along the way. I was on the phone a lot so my apologies
if some of my conversations made it into the audio. I tried including text in the video to let you
know where I was filming if it wasn't obvious. Some of the locales are Jumpin Jacks, Collins
Park, SCCC, the Stockade, Freemans Bridge Road, and the railroad bridge.
http://youtu.be/XYS2juPez-4
I was lucky not to have experienced what they did west and east of here.
The red portion below is what is featured in this footage... the blue portion also
had flooding from the Hudson River in Troy. As many know, it was even worse in other
areas of the northeast, especially Vermont.
The info:
The hurricane itself wasn't too bad, other than a lot of power outages, but the amount of rain
it dumped into the area all funneled into the Mohawk River causing a surge of water 14' higher
than normal, flooding everything and everyone not lucky enough to be elevated. Because of
so many closed roads and traffic, I biked up and down the Mohawk in Schenectady, Scotia,
and Glenville, shooting some video along the way. I was on the phone a lot so my apologies
if some of my conversations made it into the audio. I tried including text in the video to let you
know where I was filming if it wasn't obvious. Some of the locales are Jumpin Jacks, Collins
Park, SCCC, the Stockade, Freemans Bridge Road, and the railroad bridge.