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General News: Flooding Causes Evacuations, Road Closings
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| The Vossoughian family brought diapers and food for their children to the emergency shelter at Lee Road School. |
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| Randy Clark and some visitors to the flooded street outside Clark's office. |
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| Brothers Harry and William Harnett check out the flooded golf course on Hasbrouke Avenue. |
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| This bridge on Boulevard near the golf course was impassable after being torn up by storm water. |
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| The Moodna covered Otterkill Road at Taylor. Photo by Officer Mike Lug. |
August 28, 2011
Nader and Saskia Vossoughian thought they had made a smart decision when they left Brooklyn Friday night to escape the hurricane force winds of Hurricane Irene. The couple and their three children, a two-year-old daughter and twin nine-month sons, came to Nader’s mother’s house off Maple Road in Cornwall-on-Hudson. On Sunday morning, however, they realized they may have made a bad choice.
As Nader, his mother and sister tried to divert the stream of water racing down the mountain toward their house on Stillman Lane, a river of water broke through a basement window into the area space where the family was staying. Nader called 911 and the town and village fire departments evacuated the family to the emergency shelter opened by the town of Cornwall at Lee Road school.
By noon, after the storm's heavy rains subsided, about ten people were at the cafeteria at the school, and more were expected from the Brookside Condomiums on Main Street where the water from Canterbury Creek was flooding the parking lot. The stream itself was racing downstream, the waves hitting the sides of the bridge as it flows under Main Street. Neal and Debbie McGann, who walked over from their home on Curie Road to watch the flood waters hurl downhill near Academy Avenue, said they had not seen anything like this in the two decades they lived there. Cornwall police chief Todd Hazard warned that the floodwaters would only get worse during the next few hours.
On Main Street, business owners and the curious walked along the street, where a foot of water covered the roadway and sidewalk. Water could be seen running right under the door and into Eric’s Barbershop on the corner of Main and Union Streets. Randy Clark was checking his brick building that backs up against the creek and he expected to find water in his basement. (Clark, who is running for re-election to town council, also noted that his fundraiser planned for Sunday afternoon was postponed.) .
On Hasbroucke Avenue, where police say they evacuated a few residents earlier in the morning, Canterbury Creek had flooded a large portion of the Storm King Golf Course and the roadway. Brothers Harry and William Hartnett waded through the knee-deep water to get a better look at the creek’s surging waters. They had already been to Main Street and were clearly impressed by the power of nature.
Police chief Todd Hazard said he was less concerned about people walking around their neighborhoods to inspect the damage caused by Irene, which had been downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hit New York late Saturday night. His concern is the sightseers who come by car, making the job of emergency personnel even more difficult. He urged people not to go out in their vehicles until further notice.
By mid-day most Central Hudson customers in Cornwall had lost power.
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