[LMB] OT: New England Flood
Ross Ashley
redlion at sff.net
Tue May 23 16:28:39 BST 2006
On Mon, 22 May 2006 20:28:55 -0400, Adam Ek
wrote:
>
> Sunshine!
>
> After two weeks of rainy weather, including some of the worse
> flooding in eastern Massachsetts since 1936, we finally have four
> days of sunny weather forecasted.
>
> My house was high & dry, the only personal problem I had with the
> flood was driving through a stretch of I-95 near the Taylor River in
> New Hampshire that was flooded about 4 inches deep. The cops were
> stationed before and after the flooded area ready to close it if it
> went any higher and they were only letting one lane of traffic
> through. The traffic backup took 2 hours to go about 1.5 miles.
>
> Adam Ek
> adamek at mac.com
And I was apparently wrong about flooding on the Canadian side of the line ..
the last I heard, about 200 people in the Eastern Townships of Quebec were
still flooded out of their homes.
Ross, at work
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