Saturday, July 22, 2006

Is this global warming

Last year the country experienced 18 tropical storms. The devastation was horrible. Katrina damage won't be repaired for a while because we haven't gotten the destruction repaired in Florida from the hurricane season the year before.
We just had rain and high water a couple of weeks ago that we thought could flood out 9N north of the village. Today is the same thing, only this time the river came up over the road so only one lane was open. I heard on the scanner that the entrance to Crossgates Mall was under 4 ft of water.
I looked at the levels and flows on the internet for Sacandaga Reservoir and the Hudson River north of us, it didn't look like the water was that high.
The reason the many dams on the river were built was to prevent this kind of flooding and for as many years as I can remember we have not had water over the road.
Is this global warming affecting our weather etc. ?