Quoted from GrahamBonnet

I have wondered why the infallible bureaucrats at the state did not draw the Schoharie reservoir down several feet in the week or so before we knew this event was coming? Why were the spillways lowered on the Mohawk in that window as well, allowing for greater capacity? No one in the press will ask that because it might embarrass the state Canal Corp and the NY Water Authority or any other politician upriver with his hand on the lever- especially the Governor and his administration of the Canal Corp...(Who runs that?)... But they are the culprits, just as when the Hudson River - Black River Regulating District is the culprit when the Hudson floods because not enough draw down. However this is worse b/c this is was a forecasted storm vs. a spring ice melt event that could not as easily been gauged.

Think people, think.