where my house is at we must have been on the very western fringe of the storm. Whitesboro, Utica, Willowvalle, Sauquoit and vicinity had flooding issues here in Oneida County. I wasn't here though; deployed with the county and a water rescue team (comprised from Oriskany, Taberg, and Sylvan Beach FDs), originally to Long Island but were diverted on the Thruway before Albany, to Schoharie County. I wished I had better preplanned a bit more with my PSR 600 scanner I took along for the ride. used a mag mount antenna on our fire dept's squad truck and put the scanner in the middle front seat. the antenna survived the wind and rain from the storm! I only put in counties along I-87 south from Albany plus NYC & LI counties. so I ended up using the search function to get some communications in Schoharie, even though the county did issue our team two portable fire radios.
it seemed to work out very well doing mutual aid communications by just giving out each other's portable radios. Monday afternoon state fire reassigned our team, Cattaraugus Co's and Steuben Co's water teams to Colonie at the state USAR bldg. Bath from Steuben was kind enough to lend us and Catt Co a portable radio to keep each other in touch during the convoy. Who needs NIMS channels!