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Flooding closes Catskill restaurant until spring
Social media was flooded locally last weekend with images of water flowing over Dutchman's Landing in Catskill and parts of Athens, Coxsackie, and Hudson after a second round of heavy rain and snow melt. Sara Rizzo reports at News10 that Frank Guido’s Port of Call in Catskill was flooded on Dec. 18 and again on Jan. 10. This year was the first that the Dutchman's Landing restaurant planned to stay open year-round, but now it is closed until spring. Guido said, “I have 50 people working there.... That’s why we wanted to stay open year round, so we didn’t have to lay off people.” Guido said they hadn’t finished cleaning up from the first flood when the second flood battered the restaurant. The Port of Call has flooded many times in recent years including in 2011 during Hurricane Irene when they had to tear down and rebuild. The restaurant flooded again during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and also in 2020, and on Christmas Day in 2022. Guido is not thinking about moving in the face of the floods. He said, “I’ve always had waterfront restaurants. I’ve had them since 1981.... To me, this is the best spot. We’re right on the Hudson, you see the boats go by. You can’t replace that location.” Read more about this story at News10.