In years gone by, we ( in the north east U.S.) got a great deal of snow every winter. It wan not unusual that the snow banks (where the snow fall had to be pushed back by snow plows to open roads, etc.) would be as high as six to eight feet. The amount of snow that fell could be 4 or 5 feet high at any point in time during the winter. When the snow began to melt in the early weeks of spring, the snow would melt faster than it could run off the roads, fields etc. Therefore the banks of the rivers, streams, would flood. The water from the melt would go in areas that were low and creat new "little trickles, streams and rivers" for a week or two. Because there were no banks such as streams and rivers have, the would create flooded areas in scattered areas such as fields, roads, areas leading to rivers and streams. These "little streams" were where called freshets. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [CTNEWHAV] Bemis Sanitarium? Bad weather in Waterbury.. > In a message dated 2/27/2002 10:11:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > > Pat > > > > What's a freshet exactly? Never heard that word before. > > Thanks! > > Penny Hardcastle > > UK > > > > I believe a freshet is a flood. The online dictionary defines it as: a > great rise or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > To post messages to the New Haven County, CT discussion list, send them to > [email protected] > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >