Comment on Flood Future

Brian;
I find it hard to believe the NWS is forecasting doom & gloom when the major portions of our watershed, is either below flood stage or barely at flood stage.

According to their own USGS gagging stations, the one site (Watertown) is just barely at flood stage is forecasted to decline.

Makes one wonder why they are making predictions like this because according to their own data gages, there is no major flood waters north of Jefferson, Milford or Rome.

Looks more like a regional flood than a normal system wide flood and if rainfall is average the flood duration should be much shorter.

Of course the key word is average rainfall but for them to predict another 19 inches rise at the lake now is premature because nothing at the present time indicates it.

Ron Duckett