Epic Flood Damage on Mohawk River
Channel: Going Somewhere
Date: 21/08/2021

Well. A day after the flooding and turns-out some businesses on East Dominick(Savoy Restaurant) did receive damage from Mother Nature(or if you're a liberal...Damage caused by everything human), as did some homes. 
FYI to City of Rome, NY: The Mohawk River trail, behind the firehouse, did receive some damage for about forty feet. The trail is warped & buckled from water damage. And much of the side has collapsed. Gonna need the engineering department to look-at-it & at least post a sign telling bikers to slow down(to prevent any lawsuit). 
Water by Staley School on East Bloomfield street, is still pretty high, even though the water is receding. You can hear water bilge pumps behind Staley school. The water line near the playground at the school reached three feet! Enough power in that current to wash away any vehicle. And that's using the debris on the playground fence as a scale for water height. The Playground perimeter fence may need some repairs as well as the fence next to the soccer field, which the force of water collapsed. 
Noticed a-lot of little fish(now bird food), along the trail as well as dozens of crayfish. Picked-up  a dozen-of'em and put'em into calm water. Most were deceased. Lotta sand now on the trail. Either Nature can remove-it over time, or Rome can have a small front loader, scrape the trail behind Staley school at a later date. Homes in front of the trail escaped damage, being they are much higher than the river. However, the officials should check the back-of-the-homes, for erosion damage or unstable land near the river bank. 
Let this be a lesson, for the next time. Rome, New York should have a ready-supply of sandbags, or squabble with the new NY Governor, for funding to create better drainage. 
Oddly, during a flood event, the flood gates of the Barge Canal, are closed. Not since last night, have they been shut. Maybe today. Maybe they decided that closing'em causes more flooding. 
Oh: Today was a glorious sunset.