Southern Tier under water

Things are not good in the Southern Tier.

I got a call last night from the Alzheimers unit where my dad lives. They were going to evacuate. They called this morning to tell me he was safe at a hotel on the Vestal parkway. My sister in Van Hornesville is without power until Friday, and my sister in Norwich has been helping to clear water out of the local history room of the Guernsey Library. My mother is under a curfew in Norwich.

We are relatively lucky. This is the creek behind our barn. We lost about a foot of land, but otherwise, no problems. But all this water is headed toward Owego, where the water is cresting higher than anytime in recorded history.