What a storm!

[Two Peas]

3:30am and the waves are pounding us from the E. This is an unusual wind, even though the storm is moving east. There are little whitecaps on the river.

I guess we should have slept at the house tonight!

I can't figure out how to upload a pic/screenshot from the iPad, but the storm stretches from Detroit to Syracuse. Tornado warnings, high winds, lightning, and loads of rain.

What are we doing on the boat???

 

[Brian 59]

Andrew, we didnt stay at the boat last night but I heard that rain and oh god what a temperature drop. I looked at the Cam in Olcott NY this morning and it looks to be rolling pretty nicely out there. I hope this pattern changes, we are due for a nice summer.

 

[HUMPH]

Sounds like fun....NOT! That's another on of the good things about living here, no extreme weather during the spring/summer/fall and usually winter! I hope this didn't cause any real damage to anyone.

 

[Two Peas]

I've got a Davis weather station at the house, and from Wunderground I see we had 3.08 inches of rain so far since last night. Jebus!

It got suddenly worse here at the marina about 9am, and I quickly hustled the wife, kids, and dog off the boat and into the car. It took 4 other dock mates to help me put three more storm lines on the boat in what seemed like 60mph winds. I am on the last finger pier from shore, and the wind and water were about to snap the pier right off the dock. We don't have a break wall, we're just open to the usually calm river.

Water rose three feet in an hour or two, it is 4 inches from the top of the shore wall. Our floating docks are usuall three feet below the shore wall, now they are level with it.

Crazy.

Only damage so far is a little rub on my waterling stripe. I'm happy I'm not floating towards the falls!

 

[Two Peas]

Going over the falls would be bad. Does that ever happen? I guess I could see a boat breaking loose and going over the falls, provided it didn't groung itself first.

Nowadays the water is pretty shallow in the mile of rapids leading to the falls. I'd bet you would ground first. But i wouldnt want to test the theory. And actually, it is likely you'd drift to shore well before you got that far downstream.

 

[my3sons]

We slept through it, never heard a thing. Left the boat at 8 this morning and there was 4 inches of water standing in the parking lot!! So I knew we got a lot of rain. I didn't mind the weather today though because I spent half the day changing the upper ball joints on my daughters explorer :smt021
Can't complain after last weekend, four days away from the dock, and 125 miles on the trip log:thumbsup:

 

[Two Peas]

The sound of the waves crashing into the side of the boat sounded like someone hitting the boat with a hammer every single second for 6 hours. Inthink you might have better protection in the SBH than we do in the open river. Everyone at our marina was drenched in the rain helping tie the piers to pilings to make sure they didn't just snap off. It was surreal.