Irene

[Miriam Lawrence]

When did the Vermont flooding first hit the news and when did they get most of their rain? I am just interested in the timeline because we lost power about 1:30 Sunday morning and I was only looking at our local weather on my phone. I totally discounted river flooding because we just didn't get that much rain in my area.

When do everyone on this forum start to pickup on the flash floods happening in the mountains and when did the major news network pick it up?

Thanks.

It started raining Saturday night and just kept on going. As of 11:30 a.m., I had Facebook friends already posting videos of the catastrophic floods going on in the Catskills in New York, (Margaretville and Prattville). Serious flooding started happening in Vermont that morning as well. The governor gave a press conference at 2:00 p.m. already referring to road washouts and closures and warning people to be cautious, as a young woman had been washed away by floodwaters. http://www.wcax.com/story/15347789/shumlin-proceed-with-extraordinary-caution?redirected=true

WCAX tweeted this news story/photos at 3:30 p.m.: http://www.wcax.com/story/15347599/wilmington-inundated-by-irene-flooding

I don't have TV, so I don't know when the major networks started picking up the story.

 

[DRMabe]

Here's my footage from around New Bern and Havelock NC during Irene.

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