PHOTOS: Flooding in Rye: What You Need to Know
- See the City’s Friday 9:30am warning.
- At 11am Friday, the Rye PD said low lying areas along Blind Brook should evacuate, temporary shelters at Rye Rec and Rye Golf Club are open and that it would be removing cars in flood prone areas (at the owner’s expense):
- As the forecast changes, please keep up-to-date with the National Weather Service and power outages in the City App.
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- Low-lying areas along Blind Brook should evacuate immediately and go to higher ground. Do not drive through standing water.
- Anyone needing short-term emergency shelter can go to Rye Recreation at 281 Midland Avenue or the Rye Golf Club Administration Building at 330 Boston Post Road. Bring necessary medicine, food, and water with you.
- The police department will be removing cars in public flood-prone areas, including the Highland parking lot at the owner’s expense. Move your cars NOW. Parking enforcement is suspended throughout the City until further notice.
- The Watershed Literary Festival of Rye cancelled its Friday events.
- The Rye YMCA closed both 21 Locust and the Y Studios at 10:30am based on a City evacuation order.
- The Rye Free Reading Room remained open as of 11:00am Friday and is planning regular hours depending on flood conditions. As part of its last flood recovery, the library permanently moved its children’s collections to the first floor and the teen books have been permanently moved to the lower level with all the shelves there are 4 feet off the ground. It also removed all the electrical outlets from the floor on the lower level, to reduce any potential issues with the electrical systems.
