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Subject: 2011 Green Mountain Head Regatta

Attention - Last chance!!! Deadline is September 1.
Register for the 2011 Green Mountain Head Regatta.  
You will never have as much fun as this.
Thrills and spills.  90kfs!!!!!   
Vernon Dam is only 17 miles away!!!

Go to www.rowgmh.com and register!  
Do it now!  You'll be glad you did.

Structural Damage - Please report to Windham Regional Commission

Hello Everybody

This request is time urgent:  The Windham Regional Commission is working with FEMA and the state of Vermont to identify houses that have been washed away, undermined or otherwise suffered sgnificant structural damage from Irene. This information could help to qualify the state for Federal Disaster Designation. If you have observed or have other personal definitive information on houses in this category pelase respond to me now. Road name and house number and town is adequate for us to locate it.  A brief description is helpful -- like: "gone" or "foundation half gone".

Thanks for your help

Kendall Gifford
Windham Regional Commission 
Phone: 802 257-4547 ext 113 

Connecticut River headed to Connecticut!

The river peaked around noon today.

The roof corner of the big boathouse was under water. The two boathouses and the dock and ramp are still with us in Putney as of 5:00 p.m.

Becky, Graeme, Jim, Kendall and Patty were surveying the scene at around 3:30 p.m.

Afterwards Graeme had the idea to row down to the Dummerston Landing and see what the GMH landing would look like! All under water! You could not even drive to the Dummerston Landing. The corn was standing in water, and the river was on the road to the landing . . .

Connecticut River at 8:00 a.m. Monday August 29th

Here are some photos taken this morning! Still rising!

Still have 2 boathouse and a dock with a ramp!

Unbelievable!

Small boathouse. . .

Large boathouse . . .

Dock and ramp . . .

Jim, Kendall and Graeme assessing the situation . . .

Here is a movie of the river at 8:00 a.m. Monday August 29th!

New Connecticut River projection . . . aftermath of Hurricane Irene!

New river projection posted on the NOAA sight. Now they are predicting the Connecticut River to peak at 36.8 feet / ~130 Flow (kcfs) Monday morning between 8-10 a.m. This would mean there would be about 8 feet of water in the boathouse!

Tonight (Sunday Augsut 28th) at 10:00 p.m. the river is at 29.4 feet / ~71 Flow (kcfs), which puts water in the PRC boathouse Sunday night.

Flow Rate of Connecticut River:

25,000 cfs — starts to get dangerous for rowing the river

50,000 cfs — puts the river level at the top of the bank

60,000 cfs — it's lapping the PRC Boathouse

90,000 cfs — has about 4 feet of water in the PRC Boathouse. 

We will see on Monday morning what remains of the docks and/or boathouses, and what the river is doing! Check out the NOAA website for river predictions and conditions!

Will try to load some photos tomorrow! 

Hurricane Irene!

In an effort to keep club members informed of what has and is happening down at the docks... read on:

Yesterday, Saturday, started with numerous members out on the river including 5 of us participating in the PRC's 2nd Intermediate Clinic of 2011 coached by Peter Cortes. Thank you so much Peter for sharing your expertise and your gift of coaching. Again I came away with numerous things to work on AND an understanding of how.

The clinic finished at 10:00 AM and without missing a beat we started the process of removing boats from the boathouse to higher ground in preparation for the arrival of Irene. The club owes a very large Thank You to Basha, E Mac, Graeme, Kate, Kendall, Laura, Mike, Patty, Peter, Sally, Steve, and Wayne (please forgive me if I missed anyone involved) for their several hours of work derigging boats, carrying them to the trailer or car roof racks and then transporting them up to Graeme's shop. We carried the launch up to the parking area. The trailer was parked in between the wings of the shop and the other boats were placed inside. Many other items were also taken from the boathouse and left at Graeme's. Kendall made the final inspection of the boathouses and locked the doors. All seemed so placid at the time and we wondered if all this effort was in vain.

It was not! This morning, Sunday, around 9:30 I went down to the river to check things out. Though it had been raining all night, the river, amazingly, appeared to be a bit lower than on Saturday. You could have stood on the bank side of the dock and jumped onto the sand along the shore. The gauge at Walpole was reading 11.5 feet. I returned around 5:30 this evening to find things quite different. The ramp to the docks was nearly horizontal, a very large amount of debris was traveling down the now swiftly flowing river and the gauge at Walpole was reading 21.8 feet. That's a 10' rise.

Connecticut River level at Sunday at 8:02 pm in blue

Projected river level in green!

It ain't over yet folks. The current prediction, (no pun intended), is for the river to crest at 34-35 feet by mid afternoon on Monday. Flood Stage is 28 feet. At Flood Stage there will be water in the boathouse. You do the math. I'm wondering how the docks will fare. Graeme, have you ever seen this before, I mean with the docks in the water?

Stay tuned.  Jim

--
Secretary, Putney Rowing Club

NOAA ~ Please stay tuned . . . to the weather!

NOAA WEATHER NOAA is predicting moderate flooding for the Connecticut River at 32.5 feet/ 110 Flow (kcfs) for Sunday night into Monday morning ~ meaning water inside the PRC Boathouse!

FROM SATURDAY EVENING THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT

* HURRICANE IRENE WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR 5 TO 10 INCHES OF
  RAIN WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE TO THE WEST OF THE
  TRACK. WHILE THE EXACT TRACK REMAINS UNCERTAIN...IT APPEARS THAT
  INTERIOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND STANDS THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY OF
  EXPERIENCING MODERATE TO MAJOR FLOODING. HOWEVER...IF THE TRACK
  ENDS UP SHIFTING FURTHER EAST IT WOULD PUT THE BOSTON TO
  PROVIDENCE CORRIDOR IN THE SIGNIFICANT FLOOD POTENTIAL.

* THE POTENTIAL FOR MODERATE TO MAJOR URBAN AND RIVER FLOODING
  EXITS ACROSS THE REGION. THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY CURRENTLY
  EXITS ACROSS INTERIOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.