AMSTERDAM, NY--- In the City of Amsterdam, crews were up early, cleaning up everything from landslides on Vrooman to mudslides on Forbes.
Amsterdam DPW Foreman Gary Kozlowski said he has a whole list of streets to clean up.
On Amsterdam's south side, folks along Florida Avenue said they narrowly escaped rushing water from the Chuctanunda, when the creek gushed over its banks Wednesday afternoon.
"It was coming from up there down to the grass and rushing down," one neighbor said.
Plenty of attention has focused on cleaning up after heavy rains flooded yards and even forced some people out of their homes in Amsterdam. Our Mark Repasky has the details.
"If you walked in it you would have been swept away," Ray Garrison said.
"It came in very fast and it knocked down a few trees," a neighbor said.
One of those trees landed right on top of a car.
On Garden Street, the storm took out the front porch of an abandoned building. It's totally demolished. The roof is in the middle of the street.
"I heard a big bang at like six in the morning so I work up. I couldn't really see out the window right here so I came outside and saw this," said Ashley Moynihan, who lives across the street.
Rushing water took out a culvert on McKinnly Road, the land underneath and pavement on top went along for the ride.
Neighbors said as many as three inches of rain fell in just one hour.
"I guess it came down unbelievable hard," Steve Terplak II said.
Some said they haven't seen water levels like that since 1987 -- the year the Thruway bridge collapsed.
Thankfully no damage like that this time around. The worst appears to be just a couple of lost gardens.