The Rye Flood Action Committee sent along this photo of the new retention project at the Apawamis golf club. These retention containers will hold the runoff from a new construction project for slow release onto the drainage pipe that ultimately goes down Onondaga Street.
The national weather service has issued an advisory for Rye, NY tonight, January 13th. School closing information is posted below:
RAIN WILL GRADUAL MIX WITH SNOW...THEN CHANGEOVER TO ALL SNOW
AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE SNOW WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY OVERNIGHT. THE
SNOW MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES BEFORE TAPERING OFF MONDAY MORNING.
TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 4 TO 7 INCHES.
A HEAVY SNOW WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE FORECAST
THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN EMERGENCY. IF
YOU MUST...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR
VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
Information regarding delays in Rye, NY school openings or cancellations because of inclement weather is available from the following sources:
1. The school switchboard will play a taped message after 6:45 a.m., which can be heard by dialing 914-967-6100.
2. Area radio stations will broadcast delay and closing information between 6:00 and 9:00 a.m.
WABC 770 AM
WINS 1010 AM
WFAS 1230 AM
WVOX 1450 AM
WGCH 1490 AM
WFAS 104 FM
3. RCTV, the school district/city cable television station, broadcasting on Channel 77, will communicate delay and closing information as it becomes available.
The Rye YMCA, which will be closed for a least a week due to flood damage, is posting information on repairs, updates on class programs and cancellations and alternate facilities on its blog. YMCA classes at Wainwright House and the Osborn are being held as scheduled. All other classes are canceled.
The Greenwich YMCA, the White Plain YMCA and the New Rochelle YMCA are open to Rye YMCA members. The pool at Doral Arrowood is open for adult swim Monday - Fridays from 5:30am - 9:30pm.
Look at these photos of flood damage at the Rye YMCA.
The Osborn PTO is offering meal and after school care assistance to Rye residents impacted by Sunday's flooding in Rye. Please use the phone numbers and emails below to find out more:
To sign up to pickup up a dinner please call or email Sue Wexler @ 967-4243.
To sign up to make a dinner please call or email Lynn Halpern @ 381-4844.
To find out about After School Care please email or call 835-5922 or email or call 967-4037.
Word from Rye City staff: federal and state officials conducted preliminary damage assessments of private property today due to Sunday's flooding. The city is waiting on a second team that will conduct a damage assessment of public property. Officials are hoping the damage will be proven to be severe enough to warrant a federal disaster declaration.
There are reports of extensive damage in the Indian Village section of Rye and on Mead Place by the YMCA. Many home owners in these areas were displaced by the March 2nd flood, and were on the road to making repairs, only to be badly hit again by the flooding this past Sunday.
The YMCA apparently had 4 feet of water in the 1st floor and is closed indefinitely. And over 5,000 books, the carpeting and furniture in the recently renovated children's room in the Rye Free Reading Room (the public library) was destroyed by the flood.
Please leave your own reports by submitting a comment just below this article.
Yesterday's flooding in Rye (see earlier Rye flood coverage) has caused all Rye schools to be closed today, April 16, 2007. Many roads remain impassable. The Beaver Swamp Brook was flooded nearly all the way to Coolidge Avenue at 7am this morning.
The Osborn School issued the following:
All schools are closed today, Monday, April 16th. Many roads are closed making travel difficult if not impossible and there has been damage caused by flooding. All after school clubs, events and activities are canceled, as well.
At 6:50am this morning, the National Weather Service issued this advisory advising a coastal flood warning remains in effect until 1pm today:
650 AM EDT MON APR 16 2007
...COASTAL FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...
DURING THE HIGH TIDE CYCLE THIS MORNING...2 1/2 FT OF SURGE ARE NEEDED TO PRODUCE MODERATE COASTAL FLOODING...WITH 1 1/2 FT TO PRODUCE MINOR FLOODING. MAJOR COASTAL FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN WESTERN LONG ISLAND SOUND...WITH A STORM SURGE OF 4 1/2 TO 5 FEET.
AT STAMFORD...FLOODING OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD BE NEARLY EQUAL TO THAT IN THE DECEMBER 1992 NOREASTER...AND AT KINGS POINT WOULD BE SOMEWHAT WORSE THAN THAT OF THE HALLOWEEN 1991 STORM.
A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH MAY BE REQUIRED FOR THE HIGH TIDE CYCLE TONIGHT...AS ONLY AROUND 1 1/2 TO 2 FT OF SURGE WILL BE REQUIRED TO PRODUCE MODERATE COASTAL FLOODING.
A COASTAL FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. COASTAL RESIDENTS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RISING WATER... AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY
With just six weeks since the record March 2nd flood (see March 2nd flood photos and flood videos - video and photos from today are below) and some residents not yet back into their homes, Rye battled it out again today with torrential rain and flooding. Rye flooding assured its continued place in conversations, local newspapers and city council meetings when the Blind Brook started spilling over its banks at 3 or 4pm this afternoon.
By 6:30pm, the City of Rye Police Department 
issued a reverse 911 call to residents warning the Blind Brook was reaching the top of the Bowman Avenue spillway. The call warned residents, especially those in Indian Village, to move vehicles to high ground and to be ready to evacuate if necessary.
The City has opened a temporary shelter at Rye Country Day School.
Video (above) shows the Blind Brook flooding into the parking lot of the Rye YMCA on April 15, 2007 at 4:15pm. On the other side the the brook in the Rye Free Reading Room, Rye's public library.
Video (above) shows the Blind Brook flooding along the Boston Post Road just outside downtown Rye. Most of the property you can see backs up into the Rye Nature Center, although you can see some homes on Loewen Court at the beginning of the video.
Video (above) shows Rye's Blind Brook flooding along Elm Place in downtown Rye on April 15, 2007 at 4:15pm. Rye Public Works and Con Ed were out protecting residents. You can see how the flooding condition gives the bridges across the Blind Brook a beating.
The Osborn Elementary School issued a notice early this morning that Rye schools are closed today due to current and impending weather conditions. The school closings also apply to after school activities and events.
For a list of media outlets (radio and TV stations) that report on school closings in Rye, NY, click here.
There is currently light snow on the ground and weather reports expect up to 4-8 inches of snow between now and Saturday morning.
This video shows Beaver Swamp Book overflowing on Park Avenue and the Park Avenue bridge on the Rye - Harrison border. Millions of dollars have been spent restoring the Beaver Swamp Brook wetlands to prevent flooding such as this. Some homes were unreachable due to flooding. The Rye fire department had to rescue some people from their homes by pontoon boat.
This video shows massive flooding looking down Elm Place from Theodore Fremd towards Purchase Street in downtown Rye.
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