Post by JoJo on May 15, 2006 17:38:00 GMT -5
Just because this one is a bit close to home.. I'm doing OK, but some people a few miles away from me were evacuated, because they live downstream from a dam that's "critical". It's just unreal, how everything goes from normal to a disaster so quickly, and this one kinda crept up on us. Everyone is getting a bit high strung, and for good reason, it looks like more heavy rains are on the way..
CNN
HAVERHILL, Massachusetts (AP) -- Emergency crews used boats to rescue people trapped in their homes and sewage systems overflowed Monday as rain pounded New England for the fourth straight day in what could prove to be the region's worst flooding since the 1930s.
The National Weather Service predicted that rain totals could hit 15 inches in some places by Monday afternoon.
In the Merrimack Valley, north of Boston on the New Hampshire line, the Merrimack and Spicket rivers overflowed their banks and forced the evacuations of hundreds of people.
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In New Hampshire, more than 600 roads were damaged, destroyed or under water. Gov. John Lynch said his own front yard in Hopkinton had become a pond. In Concord, flooding closed St. Paul's School and the prep school was working to get its students back home on short notice.
Flooding knocked out the school's heating plant and sewage pumping station and hit some dorms, the library, the health center, post office and performing arts center at St. Paul's, which has students from around the world.
Dan Burke, who owns a backhoe, helped people in Rochester, New Hampshire, get prescriptions and retrieve belongings from their homes after the city ordered the evacuation of nearly 2,000 homes downstream from a dam that appeared to be in danger.
"We're just trying to help people get out, trying to get them at least on their way, so they don't have to lose everything," Burke said.
CNN
HAVERHILL, Massachusetts (AP) -- Emergency crews used boats to rescue people trapped in their homes and sewage systems overflowed Monday as rain pounded New England for the fourth straight day in what could prove to be the region's worst flooding since the 1930s.
The National Weather Service predicted that rain totals could hit 15 inches in some places by Monday afternoon.
In the Merrimack Valley, north of Boston on the New Hampshire line, the Merrimack and Spicket rivers overflowed their banks and forced the evacuations of hundreds of people.
....
In New Hampshire, more than 600 roads were damaged, destroyed or under water. Gov. John Lynch said his own front yard in Hopkinton had become a pond. In Concord, flooding closed St. Paul's School and the prep school was working to get its students back home on short notice.
Flooding knocked out the school's heating plant and sewage pumping station and hit some dorms, the library, the health center, post office and performing arts center at St. Paul's, which has students from around the world.
Dan Burke, who owns a backhoe, helped people in Rochester, New Hampshire, get prescriptions and retrieve belongings from their homes after the city ordered the evacuation of nearly 2,000 homes downstream from a dam that appeared to be in danger.
"We're just trying to help people get out, trying to get them at least on their way, so they don't have to lose everything," Burke said.
