Long Lake (NY) Flood, July 11, 2023 - "The Beaver Strike Back"

[@bethdittmar592]

What a great video. Thank you for putting it together!

[@b.comeau2597]

Excellent video! Very informative!

[@terryatpi]

How are things going on the infrastructure repair ? Great channel. Love that area. Subscribed. Thanks!

[@nedr.2487]

Thank you for producing this content!

[@ingridsboy]

Kent, great job on the video, It must have been all that Register Star training, Your Dad brought this to my attention. Lance Wheeler

[@hikelonglake]

Hi Lance, yes, Alan Grigsby always said, "how about putting the start of that sentence at the beginning". Or maybe it was Earl, I can't remember, that was a long time ago. Good to hear from you.

[@AdirondackAdventures]

Another great video. I was heading to Lake Lila for the weekend. Plans have changed unfortunately. Wishing Long Lake a speedy recovery!

[@hikelonglake]

We are on our way to recovery and I have to compliment the highway crews (and the town and county and everyone else involved). They worked 16 hours on Wednesday and even more yesterday to get one lane of 28n open for local traffic. Tuesday evening that was beyond our imagination.

[@javidon32]

Thank you for this amazing video. I’ve visited Long Lake every summer of my life (except 2020), and I’ve walked over the Route 30 bridge that got washed out hundreds of times, and I never understood the connections of the bodies of water. Thank you. Absolutely wonderful to learn more about Long Lake and what happened on Tuesday.

[@markcummings6856]

👍 👍

[@andyroper2846]

Beautifully done! For many years, Long Lake was my second home and I'm sending healing blessings to the people, animals and land/water forms of that place. Meanwhile, in lower NYS near West Point, we experienced a similarly destruction rainfall and massive damage to local highways. The future is here. God protect us all.

[@hike-bike-paddle-and-drone]

Thank you for putting this together so quickly! The Long Lake area is in the hearts of many, although this can happen just about anywhere in the Adirondacks these days with the right circumstances. Jeff

[@hikelonglake]

Definitely, could happen anywhere. It seems like what is "normal" is changing fast.

[@strawberriebabieex3]

I always enjoy your videos and observations, but this stands out as being especially relevant and informative. I previously looked for more information about the devastating floods in the Adirondacks but most of the media attention is focused on Vermont. your personal observations, timely photos and videos did a great job recording this disaster. and also reminded me how beavers and nature in general often have ways to recover and renew nature. Thanks for sharing online.

[@hikelonglake]

In terms of getting this out quickly it helped that we were not able to get out by car. Made it east to find the time to work on this. Thanks for watching.

[@timv.885]

The climate isn’t changing as much as the landscape, this is a development problem, nothing more

[@railrider1422]

Trump24

[@hikelonglake]

Are you one of those Russian bots we've heard about?

[@walterroll7109]

Excellent video, as a part time resident in a nearby Hamlet I am shocked to see what happened, I was in Blue Mountain on Tuesday and really couldn't believe it. And you are certainly right, the beaver dam failing did not help in the least, but ......"The Beaver Strike Back" implies some kind of agency?

[@hikelonglake]

As I mentioned in the video, I've been working on a different video about beaver as a keystone species. Beaver went from numerous, to locally extinct (from roughly 1840 to 1910) and now back to numerous. And through it all they have done what beaver do; build dams and make little beavers. The irony I was after is that we humans do what we do with little regard for "nature", and beaver do what they do with no regard for our concerns. It is a bit of a stretch...

[@walterroll7109]

@@hikelonglake thank you, I do appreciate your more nuanced approach, my thought was some might miss that. I look forward to your next video

[@leonardbechler1867]

Excellent reporting.

[@johnexford3281]

Mr. Stanton please explain, in your best scientific language, why when the ice in a glass of water melts the glass DOES NOT overflow.......Climate change.....?????

[@hikelonglake]

The weight of the ice is the same as the weight of water it displaces, so the water level stays the same when the ice melts. This has nothing to do with climate change so you might want to look up Archimedes principle for a more detailed explanation.