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Several years ago -- maybe even 10 -- I felt it necessary to establish a website about building expansion at Schoharie school so I did that, and called it the Tattler. I was thinking of Addison and Steele's Tatler, published a few hundred years ago in London.

We shook things up a little, the school quieted down, and we discontinued the Tattler. Then, at the end of 2005, the Gilboa Dam crisis erupted and we started the Code Orange web site, later called Gilboa Dam Watcher. As we were phasing that out, the quarry issue erupted, the village decided to diddle unfair water rates to benefit owners of apartment buildings at expense of single-family homes, and the new school superintendent decided there could be yet another building project, this at "no cost" to residents. In the circumstances, I decided to reestablish the Tattler.

Lester E. Hendrix,
PO Box 711,
Schoharie NY 12157

Lester@SchoharieTattler.com
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Rain, Melting Snow Still Fuel Flood Threat
13 March 2010
7:45 a.m. weather update
10 a.m. news update appended

Flood threat may have lessened a little. The amount of rain forecast for the mountains is not a heavy as it was earlier this week, mountain temperatures are not forecast as warm as earlier, and the reservoir is filling only slowly.

Nonetheless, we need to watch the weather closely and be prepared to evacuate. The federal disaster-class flood of 1996 was caused by a combination of new rain and melting snow, and we have had more snow this year than we did in 1996.

Please be aware that the reservoir catchment area is extremely large in relation to the reservoir volume and the reservoir can fill very quickly. At 5:30 a.m. the water level was 17 feet below the dam, but heavy rain and snow melt in a large part of the watershed could easily fill the reservoir in a day.

The 5 a.m. flood watch issued by the National weather Service expires Sunday evening. It is certain to be extended. Low areas that are often flooded when creeks rise may well see some flooding on Sunday but in my view, any serious flooding in Schoharie Valley is more likely to occur on Monday.

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10 a.m. news update
We find that snow melt and warming temperatures caused a dam to fail in Kazakhstan on Thursday, killing 35 people in a village and dislocating 3,000 more.
Read the AP report