How bad did it get?

Wow! Glad your ok..somewhat. I feel for all that had to deal with so much water and those poor families tht lost some one.
Take care of your shoulder....John

Sorry to hear that about your area,they are hurting in VT from what they say are you near there?
In SE Penna. we have some flooding and a lot of power out but minimal damage,we lucked out.

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I live on the border of Vermont on the Battenkill. Many  houses along the rivers  were flooded, a covered bridge got swept away, some roads collapsed. A few towns had some evacuations. Our local supermarket flooded. All the trout rivers I fish are going to have some heavy damage, they were all out of their banks and out into the corn. One  small river that has a great population of big wild rainbows was floating  50 foot logs  down it. We already had tons of damage to the upper Hudson in the record floods this April. Now we got a few more "historical" records.  F'in whoopee.
 
Charlie

For you folks that had historic floods , I really feel for you all and wish nothing but the best..
I have been through many,many floods here in my home town and luckily this just seemed like the usual..
I will say at least here in my town we have had much more damaging hurricanes in the past.. Hugo was a killer..

Keep the faith that all will be right again !!

My oldest kid lives up in Vt by Mount Peilier ( sp) said they got pounded with the rain. Floods all over. No hurricane just lotsa rain. Said he saw a large Propane tank flyin down a river.
  This was  certainly NOT a hurricane  but certainly WAS a rain event.

Hey nice fish fichy! Yeah its real bad around here, still trying to get help to some people cut off by the large washouts. Shoulder is ok thanks to pain killers and working out. Ended up taking on another house fire last night, room and content, made a fast knockdown on that one, saved the house. The real bummer is a decent portion of my usual route north to the SR is severely damaged or gone. So if the salmon wait awhile that's fine by me.

Tuna is he from a Colonie station? I know a bunch of Pats, all great guys, and girls almost made another mistake. Really though I think the catskills were ground zero for Irene. Catskill creek, Batavia kill, Schoharie creek, Esopus, Delaware, all major\catastrophic areas. Some famalies still missing. . . And so are their homes. Helicopters searching everyday. If you trout fished here before, you wouldn't recognize it anymore

    Guess those of us in the predicted 'second landing' in central Ct got real lucky with the rainfall- we only got bout 5 inches or a bit less- better than the 40 foot wave weather they first claimed.
  Hope all you in the heavy rain and runoff areas make out ok.
  Guess it all comes down to where ya are- my youngest is working double shifts till its done  repairing lines here in Ct and the oldest is waiting for the water to go down so he and the Ms can get out and go to work in central Vt.

coho, yea my friends fish there as well but only on the lake. They all bust on me because I fish for "dead fish" in the river.. lol..

Sad to hear, I was born near  and  lived a few blocks from that river . Caught my first big fish, a carp, out of it when I was 4. Prayer sent for those whose lives are torn. Dime, I was born in Belleville,  if you were wondering- across the river from Kearny.
 
Charlie

ORIGINAL: fichy

Sad to hear, I was born near  and  lived a few blocks from that river . Caught my first big fish, a carp, out of it when I was 4. Prayer sent for those whose lives are torn. Dime, I was born in Belleville,  if you were wondering- across the river from Kearny.

Charlie

Hey charlie; since salmo and I are already taking care of the hoolahoop competition; maybe you and I can have a contest over who has the hardest jeersey accent... in all honesty; I don't know if I can compete with belleville...lmao...