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43f here

Surprising .26” here overnight into this morning.

.4" yesterday to start the month off right.

That’s how Ithaca was when I was there 30 years ago but now it’s gentrified with a bunch of new hotels, restaurants breweries and what not. Still not the hamptons or anything, but nice.

Why is that? Do they have ownership of their enterprises in religious non profit entities? i don’t know anything about the underlying economics of the region but those small towns appear to be in good shape as opposed to the Catskills region where the towns look like Appalachia.

Natural beauty but also the finger lake towns are really nice too. The little ones, not the cities.

biking in the woods around me there are definitely leaves coming down. I have some white birch trees at my house and their leaves are changing already.

Exactly. I’ve biked shindigsn hollow in Ithaca a bunch of times as well as a few places around bgm where my son went to school. Car is stuffed with her gear. If i have any free time, and I should, I’ll hike a gorge, preferably the one at Treman state park. They’re all spectacular, but treman, I think, has the best trail setup. Pics below from my last visit in June. Up to .63” here and 4.24” on the month.

75/74 here with light rain. .32” in the bucket. i decided at about 3:30 to leave the Bronx and head home for a bike ride. In the clear until Hawthorne where skies blackened. By the time I hit briarcliff it was pouring. So I waited it out and rode at 5. Little soupy and wet but a good ride nonetheless. driving to Ithaca tomorrow and looking forward to some nice dry cool weather.

are you looking at kayaking from annseville circle? note that there is also a rental place at the croton train station to kayak on the croton river. also one at croton point park but not sure thats operating on weekdays. anywhere along the peekskill waterfront would be a great vantage point for storms. radar looks like something coming through now and then clearing thereafter.

I only got .03” the other day but at 3.58” for the month.

And I got barely Anything here. Looked good on radar

Finished with .86”. Soaked. 72/71. Gonna be a sticky one today.

Really coming down. .61” in the last 20 minutes.

Where is it you work?

There’s no way to do this surreptitiously. It’s right by a significant roadway intersection.

Not exactly a planned subdivision. The old dam downstream on my property is from the 1700s. The big dam further downstream that made the lake was built in the 1800’s to supply water to the croton train station for the steam locomotives.

I’d have to agree, although this particular area is completely within my neighbors property. They own the land on both sides of the stream, as do I just downstream from there. This area didn’t just fill in with silt, there were some major flooding events that did the majority of the filling in, especially Floyd (I think that was the one). Tons of rock and gravel were deposited in there from the gravel road which runs by the stream. I’d think the carting away and disposal of the mud would be the most significant part of the cost. You can see the erstwhile swimming hole in this google map image circled in black. When the stream floods, all the gravel from the road circled in blue gets carried into the pond.

Interesting. My neighbor upstream had a swimming hole that was allowed to fill in with silt such that it is now mostly marsh and swamp. I've always wondered what it would cost to dredge something like that. I would think it would take an excavator a couple few days to dig plus whatever to haul and dump the mud. Is that 10k, 100k, 500k? the big dam on the pond/lake abutting my property was recently rebuilt with concrete and that thing isnt going anywhere. great fishing in there if anyones interested. can't swim in it because of snapping turtles.

The Brooke that runs through my property is at normal level for this time of year.

‘Nothing here but the wife got caught in a torrential downpour in white plains.

Ended with .38”. That’ll do.

.32” already.

57/56. I like.

Oh, almost forgot. 69/60 here.