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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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New weekend floods in Ellenville, N.Y., loosened boulders from Catskill mountainsides, causing them to damage buildings, vehicles, and a bottling plant. Evacuations occurred, and Army Engineers estimate another $1 million in cleanup costs, similar to post-Hurricane Diane floods last August.
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ELLENVILLE, N.Y. ( ) - New floods over the weekend brought another bombardment to Ellenville—by boulders.
They swept down the Catskill mountainsides in torrents of water. They undercut banks and embankments, filled creek beds and thudded into buildings and automobiles. Some of them weighed as much as half a ton.
Day and night their dull booming echoed through the valleys.
Col. John T. O'Neill of the Army Engineers said the boulders were something unique in his flood control experience. There was a siege of them in the floods that followed Hurricane Diane last August.
The Army Engineers spent $1 million dollars clearing them from creeks and repairing roads and bridges. Now they have the job to do all over again. O'Neill estimates it will cost another million.
When the first boulders were heard during the weekend, people were quickly evacuated from a residential area on the east side of town where a brook flows. The stream rose. Boulders ate at its banks and undermined buildings.
When the water spilled over, the boulders crashed into cars and houses.
They battered a bottling plant previously damaged by Diane's floods. O'Neill said they "chewed the framework up like putting it through a meat grinder."
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Ellenville, N.Y.
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Over The Weekend
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boulders damaged buildings, automobiles, and a bottling plant; army engineers estimate $1 million cleanup and repair costs, similar to previous $1 million after hurricane diane.
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New floods brought boulders sweeping down Catskill mountainsides in torrents of water, undercutting banks and embankments, filling creek beds, and thudding into buildings and automobiles. Some boulders weighed as much as half a ton. People evacuated from residential area east of town where brook rose and boulders undermined buildings. Water spilled over, boulders crashed into cars and houses, battering a previously damaged bottling plant.