The Peru Gazette

• • Issuing Office: Burlington

    Source: National.Weather.Service

    10:42am EST, Fri Jan 12

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS FOR… AN ICE JAM ACCOMPANIED BY RAIN AND SNOWMELT IN… SOUTHWESTERN CLINTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK… SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK… NORTHWESTERN ESSEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK… * UNTIL 745 PM EST FRIDAY * AT 1041 AM EST, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE FLOODING. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE… TUPPER LAKE, ADIRONDACK REGIONAL AIRPORT, SARANAC LAKE, LAKE PLACID, WILMINGTON, WAWBEEK, NORTH ELBA, HARRIETSTOWN, BLACK BROOK, PAUL SMITHS, UNION FALLS, SARANAC INN, RAY BROOK, GABRIELS, LAKE CLEAR, UPPER SAINT REGIS, MOUNT VAN HOEVENBERG, ST. REGIS MOUNTAIN, UPPER ST. REGIS AND AXTON LANDING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS… TURN AROUND, DON’T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS, COUNTRY ROADS, FARMLAND, AND OTHER LOW LYING SPOTS. &&