Why they call it the Riverway
By adamg - 3/14/10 - 3:12 pm
The start of the Riverway this afternoon, along the floody Muddy near Park Drive, where a BWSC crew was trying to unclog a pipe that brings the river under the road to the Fens.
Upstream, on the Brookline side of the Big Muddy:
USGS data show the Muddy's almost at flood stage (that thin red line at the very top of the chart):
Tbobtubb photographed flooding downstream along the Fens.
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Love that Dirty Water!
Swamps have their ways of reinventing themselves ... truth in advertizing, though!
You should post that one to Wunderground.
OMG: Wind shears off top half of Great Blue Hill!
Or at least it seemed that way from Readville:
If (when?) the Muddy hits 15
If (when?) the Muddy hits 15 feet, the D branch of the Green Line will have to be shut-down between Reservoir and Kenmore so the portal at Fenway can be blocked to prevent the subway from flooding (like it did in 1996, and 1962 before that)
It's happened!
This was posted on the MBTA website 20 minutes ago:
"Green Riverside service has been suspended between Reservoir & Kenmore station due to weather related conditions. Substitute bus service will replace regular train service between Reservoir & Kenmore. Please expect delays and allow additional time for your commute. 3/14/2010 9:14 PM"
You're right!
http://www.mbta.com/rider_tools/transit_updates/?ttype=subway&route=Green+Line#details
Muddy now officially floody
Latest USGS data show it's now higher than the 15-foot mark, which means we've got an official flood on our hands.
I wonder what those portal doors slamming shut are like - anything like the giant door at the
Civil Defenseemergency-management bunker in Framingham that slams shut in the event of nuclear war?Portal doors? This is what
Portal doors?
This is what theyre doing
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=58777&start=240#p783149
"Raging" and "Neponset" not normally used in same sentence
At Lower Mills this afternoon.
Sump-pump in my future
Wow! I have never seen it like this. Our basement flooded for the first time.
High-tide flooding on Swampscott Street
Here - I bet that bubbling stuff in the foreground is an overflowing sewer, yum.
Wind vs. Allston fence. Wind wins
Bradley Searles woke up to this.
Raging surf in Gloucester
Dan Kennedy takes some video.
Flooding basement in JP
Alas, that of my condo unit.
I'm sure many neighbors are experiencing the same.
Yes. Now I just hope I can
Yes. Now I just hope I can find a sump pump tomorrow. Discovered the water after everything closed.
Whit
This majorly sucks
Our little electric pump could've done the job...if only the bleepin' thing worked.
Instead, it was the old-fashioned style of water removal.
As it will be tomorrow a.m.