Hmmmm, another 50 year flood?

[JL8Jeff]

The Delaware River is rising quickly once again thanks to all this rain. It's up about 8-10 feet since yesterday morning and looks like it will continue to go up with all the water coming down from the Poconos and NY. We had a 50 year flood in Sep 2004, then another 50 year flood that was even higher in Apr 2005 so why not another 50 year flood in 2006! The biggest pain in the butt is keeping the dock and boat safe. I had to pull the dock/boat in last night and again this morning. Rain, rain go away!

[90FormulaWS6]

its not really a 50 year flood if it is an annual occurrance ha

[foff667]

Yeah We went down 29 & honestly didnt notice this morning but my coworker was talking about it this morning

some of you may remember this

http://mysite.verizon.net/whenn1/Riverpic1.jpg

[JL8Jeff]

It's coming up fast. It's already up another 1.5 feet since this morning and with more rain expected it probably won't slow down. The other floods my boat wasn't in the water so it becomes a bigger pain in the butt now. And I just sold my trailer last week so I could get a newer one so I have no way to get the boat out if I wanted to! The worst part, I told my cousin the day he sold my trailer with his boat that we would probably get a flood now that my trailer was gone. DOH! :doh:

[Tsar]

goog bye south jersey? :lol:

[enRo]

If u woulda asked me over a dozen centuries ago, I woulda supplied an ark :-)

[bad64chevelle]

If u woulda asked me over a dozen centuries ago, I woulda supplied an ark :-)
:funny:

[JL8Jeff]

Well, the river has come up another 8 feet since this morning and it looks like it will come up another 5-8 feet overnight. I just got back from pulling in the lower steps and the dock and cutting off some tree branches since my boat is now up in the trees! I'll try and get some pictures tomorrow during the day.

I just found out they're calling for a crest at Trenton around 26 ft which will actually be higher than last spring and the picture Bill posted above! And if we get any more significant rain overnight or tomorrow those river heights could be even higher!

[Tsar]

AWESOME! take pics! :lol:

[JL8Jeff]

Here's a chart from this morning showing the reading at Phillipsburg. The river has gone up 25 feet in 2-1/2 days and it's still climbing!

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwisweb/data/img/USGS.01446995.01.00065..20060621.20060628.0.0.p50. gif

[slugger27nj]

I just heard they're shutting down Rt 29 SB. I'm sure the NB side won't be far behind.

[Savage_Messiah]

awesomeness! (for those out of the trenton area :lol:)

[PBodyGT87]

they said on the news that the delaware was going to rise as high if not higher than it flooded in April 2005.

[Tsar]

some one get pics of the flood!!! i wanna see

[Savage_Messiah]

:stupid: entertain us northerners

[bad64chevelle]

I remember the ones last year, they were crazy! I cant believe that they will be even higher this year. Noah get workin on that arc were gonna need to put two of every kinda car on it so make it big!

[JL8Jeff]

I just got back from pulling the dock in some more and cutting down some tree branches again. It sure looks like it will be higher than last year. I'll post pictures later when I get home.

[foff667]

I love how its going to flood again & we're under a drought advisory at the same time :lol:

[JL8Jeff]

Wow! They just updated the forecast peak for Trenton and it's now almost 28 feet tomorrow! That's 3 feet higher than the picture above from last year! It looks like most of the towns along the river will record the 2nd highest readings ever on the Delaware tomorrow! It's like all the people up north flushed their toilets at the same time! And it sure smells like it!

[Tsar]

better then a pics above? pics or ban!!!

[foff667]

Basically this is what it will look like tomorrow :lol:

http://mysite.verizon.net/whenn1/Riverpic2.jpg

[JL8Jeff]

Yeah, and it will start backing it's way up into the basements of a lot of the buildings down in Trenton. Mostly gov't buildings so our taxes will probably go up too! Oh yeah, the governor wants to raise the sales tax to 7% anyway. This state sucks!

[slugger27nj]

Maybe it'll wash the governor away.....we could only be so lucky!

[Birdman]

Maybe it'll wash you guys off a little bit. :lol:

(sorry, former Bethlehem, PA resident here)

[BonzoHansen]

And all the water in the river is dirty north jersey water form dirty north jersey.

All politicians in NJ suck.

[Tru2Chevy]

They closed the Justice Complex on Market Street a few hours ago. I'll have to take the long way to 295 this afternoon. No getting on 29 for me....

- Justin

[BonzoHansen]

They just told us 29 south of 95 is closed, the Washington’s Crossing Bridge is closed, and Pleasant Valley Way in Hopewell is closed (although I do not know where in Hopewell that is).

[Frosty]

It's all because of Global Warming!!!!

/runs

Luckily I'm not that close to the river...I'm about 15 minutes or so from the pic Bill posted up.

[PBodyGT87]

Just went down to washington's crossing park, the firemen are letting people cross 29 and go and see. the water is up to the bridge and half the parkinglots are under water. it's still rising. pics to come later.

[BigAls87Z28]

Thaaaaaaaaaaaat sucks. Sunny and happy over here.

[foff667]

ttiwwp

MORE PICS DAMNIT

[JL8Jeff]

OK, this first picture is for reference. This was taken back in early April when I first put my boat in the river. The river was almost this low back on Friday and Saturday.

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/boat1.jpg

The rest were taken today. You can see my boat is getting tossed back and forth by the current and I had to cut off all the low branches from the tree so the boat won't get hung up on anything.

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/river1.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/river2.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/river4.JPG

A couple of pictures from the bridge at Washington's Crossing. My boat is about a half mile upstream from this. The water is still expected to come up another 5-6 feet above where it is in this picture.

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/river3.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/river5.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/river6.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/river7.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/river9.JPG

These 2 shots are from the NJ canal path looking over to PA. They say the river will still come up another 5-6 feet.

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/river10.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffhansbury/river/river11.JPG

[JL8Jeff]

They've revised the flood estimate for Trenton now back down to 25.5 feet instead of 27.9 so that makes it about the same as last April.

[bad64chevelle]

wow thats pretty crazy! hope the boat is okay jeff

[Tsar]

i dunno it doesnt look that bad :lol:

[Savage_Messiah]

watch otu for anacondas!! :lol:

[deadtrend1]

wow, better keep a good close wath on your dingy!

When i was out in CA over new years, they had 1 solid month of rain every day. Something called a hawaiian clipper or whatever.

The damn dam near my buddies house had to open the main spill way. Trees were sticking up out of the rivers, and on the way to the airport, i seen a pond with headstones sticking out of it. strange stuff

[Savage_Messiah]

wow, better keep a good close wath on your dingy!

When i was out in CA over new years, they had 1 solid month of rain every day. Something called a hawaiian clipper or whatever.

The damn dam near my buddies house had to open the main spill way. Trees were sticking up out of the rivers, and on the way to the airport, i seen a pond with headstones sticking out of it. strange stuff

how does a month or rain every day work :scratch:

[Tru2Chevy]

It rained every day for a whole month. Not a difficult concept to grasp....

- Justin

[Savage_Messiah]

i was tired last night, i thought he meant it was a month's worth of rain per day every day

[enRo]

I forgot if it was Tim or Justin that has family up by Norwich NY, but did anybody see the Interstate 88 pictures they had on the news? Thats like 5 miles from my grandfathers house (about 3 hours away from Morris county NJ)... it basically looks like Moses split the highway right across about 30 feet wide, both North and south sides :shock:

http://216.230.164.253/photos/203i88hole.JPG





And a very funny randomn picture:
http://216.230.164.253/photos/42100_0446_00.jpg

[Tru2Chevy]

I forgot if it was Tim or Justin that has family up by Norwich NY
Tim does.


My family in Whitney Point, NY (15 mins. North of Binghamton) is taking a pretty big hit with all of the rain. My uncle is currently estimating his crop loss at $20k....

- Justin