Funny I should read this right now. I'm in Oneida at the McDonalds right now. Just came from Saratoga Springs this morning along Rt 5/5S thanks to the train derailment. Was the derailment due to the flooding? I remember as I went through Fort Plain that I saw a road sign that said Last Day For Debris Pick Up July 8.' Right before that I heard someone running a ?generator?...I'm guessing it was a water pump and then right after the sign people had stuff laid out all over the place by the curb and I heard another pump running and realized I was looking at flood damage. The roads looked fine. As I got just west of Utica Rt 5 was shut down down and I knew by the way the signs were put up it had to be thanks to flooding. I rode through the sign and a short distance later I came to the bridge over the brook and was shocked at how high the water was. It was over the top of the bridge but all it would take for it to be running down the road again would be maybe .5 inch of rain. I had just ridden through sprinkles right before getting to the closed stretch of Rt 5. Right after that the skies cleared out and I could tell it probably won't rain again today. The air cleared up WAY too much. Radar wants to suggest it as well but the regular movement of cells sure has changed since yesterday/even this AM.

Curious, what day did you leave. You was out for 8 days and the flooding had already occurred??? I was seeing on the news this AM about the flooding around Hermiker and was figuring it was this past weekend...not early to mid week last week.