Catskill Weather was asking if I could make up a map of lands that the NYC Department of Environmental Protection - Water Division had acquired in the Catskill Mountains over the past twenty years. I had my doubts, but then I found out that Greene County had hosted on their county REST/services a copy of the NYC DEP map. It's a few years out of date but still an interesting visualization.
Long Path Trail is a 424 mile trail running from the George Washington Bridge in New York City, north to the North Country - Placid Trail in Northville in the Southern Adirondacks.
This map gives an overview of routing of NY 28 through the Catskills.
People often think it's impossible that a location can get hit by multiple 500 year floods in a single decade. But it's actually more common than you think.
The odds of two 500 year flood hitting a location twice in a decade is 1 in 5,101. Long odds but not impossible by any stretch of the imagination. 500 year floods are a lot more common than people realize. Indeed the odds of a single 500 year flood in a decade are 1 in 51.
It is actually more likely a home will get hit by four 500 year floods in a decade then the home owner will strike it rich by buying a power ball ticket.
R is wonderful for statistical analysis.