Page 3 - Record Stage News Today

Dramatic spike we have had since saturday morning. this is well beyond major flood stage. we do think at this time its going to stay below record stage, but if we get beyond 52 feet that mean as major part of downtown could be flooded. this includes lp field, some of the train stations and some of the big touristy spots in the downtown area. were approaching 51 feet and think this will crest as we reach the afternoon hours today. lets show you the radar now. were looking at a strong line of th...

Providence, rhode island, you are special here, you have set a record for the biggest rainfall ever in any month. so, incredible rain, and were watching the priver at cranston and the pawtuxet is cresting at 20.76 feet, and is not expected to rise, over that and the flood stage, though, is at 9 feet and the record stage at 15 feet and this is way over record stage and the pawtuxes river crest, second only to the crest a couple of weeks ago, at 14.98 feet and these people are -- enough already! a...

Theyre certainly taking this very seriously there, there was damage to about a hundred homes there and businesses. any breach in the levee system, boom, youve got a disaster on your hand. so weve got to get through sunday, monday and tuesday before this comes to bear here. 38 feet is the forecast for sunday afternoon. again, thats getting close to record stage. then youve got the mississippi, the missouri. weve got a number of named rivers in the river system across the midwest that we have to d...

Up north so that that water doesnt run off. let it freeze in its tracks for a while. finally, you wont see this river rising. i dont know. this is kind of a very crude graphic. but it takes us from where the level is in the red river at fargo right now, which is at flood stage, but okay. but then all of the way up to only three feet from record stage. and you know, these people, theyve had it so many years in a row now. a couple years ago we had the mississippi river. that was out of its banks g...

Thankfully he said nobody in this situation was injured. with that rain in the area and its going to continue as well as the snow melt, were real concerned about flooding problems across the mid-atlantic and into the northeast. we also have issues across the upper midwest. lets zoom in here. were watching the red river valley of the north where the flood levels are beginning to rise here. were watching fargo, north dakota, its expect ed to be in major flood here by tuesday getting close to recor...

Warning, an catastrophic flooding is ongoing. rivers are well above record stage. mud slides are an issue. its important to know that we have just begun to see some of the damage thats out there. usually after a huge hurricane like this, it can take two, three days to get a good proper assessment of just how bad it is and especially areas away from the cities are. those areas are -- all weve seen are mostly pictures from san juan and some of the bigger islands. right now still 115 miles per hour...