River Crests, Road Floods

Several cars ignored two sets of Road Closed/Danger signs this morning and drove through a substantial puddle of Connecticut River water to enter Route 9 this morning near Harbor Park.  Drivers assumed, apparently, that there wasn't a washout beneath the surface.

Three local news teams stationed satellite trucks and correspondents in the Harbor Park lot as logs and barrels floated by the sodden restaurant.

The National Weather service reported that the river had crested in Middletown at 3 a.m., and indeed, the water seems to have receded slightly already.

While there is always detritus on the banks of the river, at flood time, the noticeable surfeit of plastic trash demonstrates just how much we use the river as an inappropriate sewer.