UGH! Our beloved little park/campground after the FLOOD

[ScoobMaster]

As some of you know, I have a little popup camper and love to go camping.....

Our favorite little "best kept secret" little local campground that we make short weekend getaways to, Hickories Park in Owego NY, took a beating during the unprecedented flooding of our area in June. We had stayed in the park just a few weeks before the flooding hit! I had heard it was bad, but I just found aerial photos showing just HOW bad

The river has overtaken the campsites!
What a disaster
Storage buildings in the back of the park
This is the entrance to the park

These pictures were taken in happier times - weeks before the devistation:

Scoobmaster's June 2006 Hickories Trip

If you look closely at the center of this picture here, you can see the playground and the playhouse that my son was playing in.

The complete gallery of the aerial shots of flooding in the village of Owego, NY
can be found here

I hear that cleanup is progressing and the park has limited camping sites open, but it will be LONG time before things get back to "normal".

HERE is a current article on the status of the park

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Considering the number of people that lost their homes, their business or their lives a freaking campground being closed for a month is nothing to whine about.

 

[Thraxen]

We would have gladly taken some of that rain for you... you didn't have to hog it all.

 

[lokiju]

Fvcking Global Warming!

:sarcasm;

 

[NissanGurl]

Sorry to hear about the flooding. I have happy memories of camping with my dad. Hopefully you'll find an even better cozy little park while you're waiting for this one to be restored.

A little OT, but in one of those pics I could swear I saw RVs that were in the water. Were they unable to drive to higher ground when the water started to rise? Sorry just trying to figure out why someone that has the capacity to get out of the way of a flood wouldn't.

 

[MoPHo]

was this the flooding from like 2 weeks ago in NY? was pretty bad up here.

sorry to hear about your campground

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

That's quite the water hazard, can you get flood insurance on your camper?

 

[ScoobMaster]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Considering the number of people that lost their homes, their business or their lives a freaking campground being closed for a month is nothing to whine about.

Whoa there - in NO WAY would I ever dare to compare the damage of a park to what many fellow local residents have gone through. The loss of personal property here in the Southern-Tier and surrounding areas has been DEVISTATING.