On April 29th, I went up to Essex, NY to see the situation with the Rosslyn Boathouse in Essex, NY. My friend George Davis had been complaining that his newly-rennovated boathouse was flooded.
Here is George inside his flooded boathouse:
The ticket booth at the Essex ferry dock looked like this:
The water continued to rise.
By May 5th, Hoisington Brook in Westport devleoped a new branch that ran next to the recreation building in Lee Park.
The water was now substantially higher than the previous record high from 1869. The playground at Lee Park began to resemble a water park.
The height of the water on gas tanks at the Marina makes clear quite how unusual this situation is:
The water inside the Galley Restaurant was both deeper and darker:
A house on the usual shoreline looks far out to sea:
To be continued . . .
