> > Barry... Thank you for that great information! > > Wonder if it was an EL NINO year.. That much water in > the middle of the summer must have been a shock! ...r.e. ":freshets" or "flooding", I couldn't help but send you this rather maudlin description of my 4th-great grandfather Beri Tuttle's untimely death in the Quinnipiac river, New Haven County, to show you how much of a problem this part of Connecticut had with flooding: Beri Tuttle of Wallingford, Connecticut, died May 11, 1807, from unusual circumstances leading to his drowning death in the Quinnipiac River. Unusually heavy flooding threatened the nearby bridge and its approaches. Seeing one individual caught in the current under the bridge, a second swam to his aid. Mr. Tuttle, seeing both swept away, dove in to save them, and as the other two clung to him, they all drowned together. Source: Tuttle, George Frederick; THE TUTTLE FAMILY; Tuttle & Co., Rutland VT c.1883.