Apparently, this is the first year we’ve ever had floods. Who knew?
We lived in Port Jervis, NY, where the Delaware and Neversink Rivers meet. For all intents and purposes that entire city is a flood zone. The name Neversink comes from an old Algonquin phrase meaning, appropriately enough, RAGING RIVER. Surely there are accounts in local Native lore of some major flooding in the area long before any Whites settled there.