http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2008/04/23/nb-flood.html
This morning the St. John River reached flood levels at Fredericton and Maugerville with the river coming over the banks in Maugerville and covering the main road in low spots through the small farming community. The news love this story and we will see "on the spot" reporters interviewing the hardy farmer folk that will stoically face the flood. In fact, the number of working farms in Maugerville and Sheffield could be counted on the fingers of two hands with fingers left over. The real back story to this are the people who were allowed to build on the river banks in a flood plain. The first thing that they did was cut down all the maple trees had held the riverbank together. The older homes and farming homes are back from the river, built higher and don't have finished basements. We will see how this plays out.
Anyway, the only web camera with a clear view of the river gave this image this morning.
And then this notice went up.
So now we are blind except for the incidental views in the background of the City Hall Fred E-zone image and from the MRDC Sheffield-Coytown Bridge camera. Speaking of the MRDC I see someone realised that their web cameras were useless for an hour each day because they burned out facing the sunrise. Somebody turned the Longs Creek camera around so it now faces west and only sees one lane of the highway and the tops of vehicles on the overpass. But this was the image this morning and as you can see at least the image exists now.
Finally we need to say "Hi!" to the good people of Beaver Harbour (who, it must be assumed are also the people who host the web camera) as the camera caught them fertilizing their lawn last night. It is good to see ya folks.
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