Yes, It Floods Here Too

The weather has been odd here lately. We've had fog, rain, hail, and snow. The temperature has fluctuated between 15 and 50, causing massive flooding, freezing, and then a potent combination of the two. School was canceled for two-and-a-half days last week on account of the weather.

The worst of all the conditions lately has undoubtedly been the flooding. While we don't experience this problem where we live, the other side of the Wallkill Bridge was so bad that some people were trapped in their homes. One of Fiona's friends was stuck indoors for two days, and a friend of Shirra's reported that the family had barely been able to get outside for a week! This woman's husband apparently had to hike out the back door and thru their woods to a road nearby in order to get to work.

I've heard rumors that the Village is thinking about raising Springtown Road a few feet higher in order to combat the annual floodwaters. I'm not sure how feasible that plan is -- and how soon they're planning to do this -- but I remember feeling a great sense of relief when the floods came last spring and we WEREN'T affected. We'd almost bought a house there, but luckily we'd decided on a different house. I'm not sure how conscious we were about the flooding, but I do recall that the real estate agents had mentioned that a certain road did flood badly from time to time, and later we realized that they were talking about Springtown Road. Woe unto anyone who buys a house along that swampland. Shirra reports that when she drove Fiona back from riding yesterday, the road was finally open but there were lakes on either side of it, rippling in the wind.