Storm Nicole

With the heavy rains and flood warnings on the news, We have received many emails and many phone calls from folks checking on our situation. Your concern and kindness is appreciated. Thank you to Fran Raiola-Deputy Fire Marshall, who called on his day off to make sure we did not have any issues or needs.

Because the Willimantic river flow has been at extremely low levels and the ground so dry, the 225 sq mile watershed absorbed a tremendous amount of the rain, and the river had no problems handling the rest. We also did not get the amounts predicted.

At the beginning of the recent rain events, the river"s flow rate was at approximately 10 cubic feet per second, (cfs). It peaked on Friday a little under 600 cfs.
At 10 cfs, the amount of water passing the gauge about 2 miles upriver was 74.8 gallons per second. Last night when I checked the gauge, the river had peaked and started to drop. At 513 cfs, 3837.24 gallons per second was passing the gauge. We have witnessed amounts up to and over 75.000 gallons per second.

Hopefully when we experience the next rain and water event, we will be back in the house and enjoying the view and not living in this box.