Lake Ontario is still rising. The Army Corps of Engineers says Sunday morning’s reading was 248.3 feet, driven by more than three inches of rain in the first week of May. Normally Rochester gets less than three inches of rain for the entire month.
Lake Ontario is now just six inches away from an all-time Spring record. A lake shore flood warning is in effect until 6:00 a.m. Monday.
Since March 1st, Rochester had had nearly 13 inches of rain and snow melt. That’s about seven inches above normal, and meteorologists say this is now the area’s wettest spring since 1873.
The weekend’s rain sent, the Genesee River was crashing over the Court Street Dam in downtown Rochester:
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The The National Weather Service extended a flood warnings for Irondequoit and Black Creeks until 10:00 Sunday night. Three days of rain sent sent both over flood stage Sunday morning. Ellison Park on Irondequoit Creek flooded for the third time this spring. The County Parks Department closed the park for the day.
Meanwhile the Genesee was washing over the fishing access at Summerville, Lake Ontario partially flooded Hot Dog Row at Seabreeze. Marge’s Lakeside Tavern had to shut down for the day Sunday. It’s beach picnic area has been washed away. And Irondequoit Bay covered the access parking lot at the south end of the Bay in Penfield, coming within feet of empire boulevard.
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National Guard troops filled sandbags with the help of volunteers in Irondequoit over the weekend to help lake and bayshore homeowners sandbag their properties. And in Parma, Spencerport Fire Department Explorers and their leaders pitched in to help exhausted DPW workers fill and tie sandbags.
The DPW has been working nonstop in Parma for more than a week, doing what they can to help people protect their homes from the waves. That’s foll
owing the early spring heavy snowstorm and the March Wind Storm.
Salmon Creek was flooding the rear parking lots of some businesses on Manitou Road, and the water was nearly up to the bottom of the bridge over the creek:
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