Tuesday evening we had dinner at the Rockland House, about two miles north from our house on Route 206. All day Deirdre had been monitoring an approaching storm on weather.com, and we got a seat near the window to watch it if it came. The sky was dark, a few bolts of lightening struck the mountain, the lights occasionally flickered, but the rain just didn't seem to be coming. Soon after we got home, the heavy rain and lightening began — probably more lightening than we've seen since we've been coming here. We sat out on our porch for about an hour watching the show. We only discovered the next morning that the storm had been much worse than what we experienced. Just a couple miles further north beyond the Rockland House, across the Sullivan Country/Delaware County border in Colchester, flash floods as high as eight feet destroyed houses, swept away cars, and killed at least one person. Five more are still missing. A good chunk of Route 206 — a major thoroughfare in these parts Read More...