Potential Flooding at the club this weekend
Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:39pm
OK, so, let's skip "potential" and say "probable"...
Anyway, here's a couple of useful links. I know that some folks more knowledgeable than I can correlate these numbers to "water on the lawn" "water in the bottom of the club" "water on the porch" "water inside the meeting room", etc...
NOAA predictions -
this one gets updated with anticipated levels as conditions change. Don't assume because as I'm posting this at 1334 on Friday that the estimated 13.9 ft at 0100 on Monday is going to be what they'll be predicting at this time tomorrow...
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=phi&gage=padp1&view=1,1,1,1,1,1
USGS Gauges:
Schuylkill at Philadelphia:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/pa/nwis/uv/?site_no=01474500&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060,00010
Wissy at mouth:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/pa/nwis/uv/?site_no=01474000&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060,00010
Rosemary sent out an email looking for help on Saturday morning starting at 0900 do some flood prep... If you can make it - please do. Many hands = light work.
For reference - I found the following regarding Hurricane Floyd, where several feet of water was in the clubhouse:
http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/FloydSummary999.PDF
Rose Van Keuren
Sat, 08/27/2011 - 3:00pm
#4
Club Flooding
Some years back, I recorded the below approximate CFS Milestones - Schuylkill River - Philadelphia Gauge:
16,000 - coming up over the concrete wall by the floating doc (Wissy Side)
27,000 - in the lower shed and starting to come into Claude's basement.
56,000 - coming up onto the back porch
60,000 - splashing in the back door and starting to flood the kitchen floor
I HOPE IT'S WRONG - BUT THE NOAA PREDICTIVE MODEL IS OVER 90,000 CFS PEAKING SUNDAY EVENING!!
For future reference, These gauges, are available on PCC as well already..
Check:
River Gauges
If you think we need to add some more to it, as a one stop view, tell me, and I'll add it..
Individual paddling locations on here also have the gauge embedded in the description - we can add / embed gauges etc as necessary:
Paddling Locations