Thursday, June 29, Sue (the other one) and I took a walk up to Lock 14 and were amazed at the damage. Someone had painted lines showing how high the water had reached on the road leading down to the lock and the time intervals. The railroad tracks were under water with trains abandoned but repairmen were working on the tracks. The lock doors and walls were totally under water, and the only way one knew there was a lock there was the second story of the lock house with a large 14 painted on its side! A reporter from The Leader-Herald comes to the Center to interview us – this was big news in NY State.

Friday, June 30, the water actually started dropping and the debris started building. It was hot and sunny and we were able to walk down to the Riverfront Park to take more pictures of our boats. We stopped in the Cumberland Farms to buy the newspaper and quickly found our story with pictures. We howled at the quotes as not one of them sounded like the complete answers we had given to the reporter. Hillary Clinton came to Canajoharie to check out the state of emergency that had been declared. The flood became known as the 200 year flood and the Red Cross Disaster Relief trucks arrived.