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| The Cohoes Falls on the Mohawk River |
We
had a good night and woke to something we have not seen in a while..
BRIGHT sun light! No rain today but we are now hearing distance
thunder. There is another thundering also.. it is the water over
many spill ways. As we understand it we may be here for at least 4
days or perhaps a week! It just takes time for the water in all the
lakes and streams to get down here to these big rivers: The Hudson
and the Mohawk Rivers which meet right here at Waterford, NY. The Mohawk Falls pictured above usually has only a small trickle going over this falls. Today it reminded us of Niagara Falls!
It
is only about 10 blocks to town so we walked down to see the water
front where the city docks are located and where we were briefly
docked until rescued by the wonderful canal staff here. Later we
walked over the bridge we could not get under on Thursday & the
water is even higher today. Notice the park bench underwater in second photo here.
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| Flooding Across from the City Docks |
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| Waterfront Park where we were Docked |
While
at the city docks several other local folks came to see what was
happening with the water... some live right on the Mohawk River here in town and
have suffered great damage in the past. Hurricane
Irene brought the water up to the second story of the city
docks building. So all of us in boats were not so much the
curiousity yesterday that I thought... the people were concerned for
their homes! We met a nice lady this morning who offered to take us to a hardware store that was several miles away. We gladly accepted and got quite a tour of this city. She also took us to Cohoes to see the falls pictured at top. We found out that Cohoes, like many towns in the Hudson River Valley, was a busy industrial town with mills that made fabrics... huge factories there now being converted to condos and lofts.. also many large brick buildings all alike along a couple of streets where the mill workers used to live.
In
this picture we were tied to the city wall behind this tug which is
now floating above that wall. We don't know why it was left there
but suspect they could not find the owner or a key to start its
engines to move it. When the water recedes it may turn over and take
on water and sink! We are blessed to be in safe and dry place!
The
Canal staff has been wonderful. Today while we were making our frist
trip to town they went to West Marine and bought special expensive
plugs to hook us all up with electricity. They used their truck with
a big tank on it and hooked up a vacuum to it to pump out every boat
here on this pool and the one below us where they have also put more
boats to keep them safe. The people in the town are very nice also..
.one man noticed us walking along carrying laundry from doing our
wash today at the laundry mat in town. He said, “You must be from
the boats”... he said he sees this happen every few years... so
many have offered to help. We are in a good place....
Here
we are parked with all the heavy canal equipment around us including
the tug boat we are moored to and we are GLAD to be here! God is
good!
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| Miss gg on far Right |
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