Spring Thaw

The news papers said that Cortland has the worst flooding in 30 years.  If this is almost the worst we'll have to deal with, we got really lucky with our house.

The front corner of my house is about four feet from the creek embankment for Otter Creek... aka, the creek that floods.  My father lives a few streets away and about a half a block from the creek.  My Mom lives about seven blocks further up the creek from Dad and she's about five houses from the same creek.

The results of the flooding?

Mom had 10 inches of ground water in her basement from the high watertable.

Dad's basement was a little damp in spots but he had ducks swimming down his street.

I had a spectacular view of the creek.  That's it.  No water in the basement, no flooding in the street.