4 April 2024
This morning I checked NOAA’s National Water Prediction Service and saw there was a major flood today on the Monongahela River at Braddock Lock & Dam, just upriver from Duck Hollow. It looked like it would crest this morning …
… so I rushed down to Duck Hollow just after sunrise and here’s what I saw.
It was so deep that the parking lot garbage can was floating. Needless to say there were no barges or ducks on the river.
The birds were singing as I filmed the river at the mouth of Nine Mile Run.
Was I there for the crest? I took a two minute video while the water was rising. See the pink line indicating the high water mark in these slides from my video.
As it turns out the river crested today at 4:00am EDT.
The National Weather Service says we’ve broken the record for the wettest start of any year in Pittsburgh since record-keeping began in 1871.
No wonder there’s a flood.
(photos and videos by Kate St. John; diagrams from @NWSPittsburgh)
Thank you so much. For this and all you do.