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Does anyone have plans for an ark?

I've never seen rain like this in New England. Dozens of roads closed. Lots of flooding all over the state. We're still expecting a couple more days of rain. We've gotten 12" of rain in the last 3 days. My basement is still dry but a few of my relatives are fighting a losing battle with rising water.

Here's hoping you stay dry Ronald

ATTENTION MOTORISTS! MAINE IS CLOSED!
No kidding.

I was at a wedding in Salem, MA all weekend (Had lunch with Rob in Wilmington, friday!) and it rained ALL weekend. Thismorning at breakfast, the bride's fam was leaving to go home to Maine and her uncle called and said he was one of the last cars thru before they shut down 95. A few people hydroplaned into the median and were floating... I also saw a sign on Rt 1 that said Peabody was closed too. And my friend's back hard in Medford was under 6 inches of water, but the streets were just steams, not quite rivers yet. The rain didn't let up till I got to RI, and even then it rained lightly all the way to the ferry in CT. But the seas were calm, and the roads on Long Island are dry!! Good luck Ron! Time to break out the swimmies.

I think I saw the animals going by two-by-two!

This sucks!! No roads closed here, but it's been raining since Tuesday and the forecast calls for rain until at least Saturday. WAHHHH!! I wanna ride!!

i have been wetvacing my basement all day, its all finished so i am trying to stay with it because there is way to much to lose if i dont. all i want to do is install m my freak and get a dyno

Frank

I have never seen it like this before. I was barely able to make it back and forth to Lee today and now Rt 152 is closed. They are evcuating, some low lying areas around me, luckily I'm on top of the ridge. Currently I have two sump pumps going full bore and the water isnt climbing in the basement anymore. I was just watching the news and they had some guys kayaking around york ME. If anyone in NH needs anything, pumps hoses etc. Just holler, and we'll try and help out.

Just got off the phone with the groom. He got back from the brunch around 1 to find 3 inches of water in the basement. It's a good thing he spent all last week sealing cracks, etc, or else it would have been worse WITH some damage!! He also said it was good all the fathers and such were there to help! Turns out the main problem was the storm drain in the street getting overloaded and one of his sump pumps failing. So they cut a small trench in the yard so the ROAD could drain into the woods thru the yard, and then his sump had somewhere to pump the water. Looks like this summer we're renting a jack hammer and diggin up the driveway to install some drainage!! Good thing this rain didn't start on tuesday when they are leaving for two weeks!!!

please excuse me while i divert the thread...Kathy's Back!

missed ya sister. hang out for a bit, please. the New Hampshire guys are putting a ride together for 7/22. It's in the Rides and Rallies thread. hope you'll think of coming along.

mert

I just heard they're evacuating parts of Manchester, Hooksett, Nashua and Concord. They're afraid that the Merrimack river may overflow it's banks. All of it's tributaries are 6 to 7 feet above normal. This is not a good situation.

hers some pic's Ron to go with our saga









Not pretty...about two feet below the water is the guard rail

opps one didn't make it

hope there no speedys or Ba's in there

I live on my houseboat in CT, and just checked to make sure my bilge pump is working. I'm always(so far)floating.

Charlie

Rob I bet that Hummer we saw at the 99 could make it thru that... Good luck guys! The rain looks like it'll keep falling. LI is dry at the moment...

Saw an F150 go thru...water OVER the HOOD!!!!! I'm not sure how far on the other side he got...BUT water OVER the hood means water IN the engine...air intake is about at headlight level....he's SOOOO Screwed!

Ben "lunch" was great ! glad to have the chance to do it...

Yeah I know exactly where it goes in on my jeep. Just above the right headlight. That's my limit! That hummer fitted with a snorkle could probably totaly sumerge! Cool. I've gone thru some sick puddles in the jeep the last few days but nothing even up to the bumper...

These pic's were taken this evening AFTER the water had a chance to SUBSIDE some!!!!

oh my god guys, i just got home from trying to rescue my buddies place here in newmarket. the town now only has one way in and one way out. worst of all my poor friend has his 9 month old in intensive care after 2 surgeries this week. as if he and his wife did'nt have enough to think about, them this flood. poor guy. 9.90 inches in last 48 hours. this is unreal.

oh my god guys, i just got home from trying to rescue my buddies place here in newmarket. the town now only has one way in and one way out. worst of all my poor friend has his 9 month old in intensive care after 2 surgeries this week. as if he and his wife did'nt have enough to think about, them this flood. poor guy. 9.90 inches in last 48 hours. this is unreal.

Dan if you need help in Newmarket call me, 603-942-5361, I'm two towns away.
Alden

thanks alot alden, that's much appreciated, well as of now my friend has three pumps going and a few of us dug some trenches so the water will run away from his foundation, he's going to see what it looks like in the a.m. i really like this board, so many cool people wathing out for one another. very cool!

Any chance of exporting some of that water...?

One of the water companies here has been granted a drought order... See here...

Gina,
They can come and get all they want.

At least you guys have some elivation. It rained not as hard and only for a day and streets were flooded like crazy here and the great south bay rises all the time. If it rained like that here you could dig all the trenches you want and the water would just sit... SO flat!! I really hope you guys catch a break soon!

Dan, I dont know if you can even get into Newmarket anymore. I just tried to get to my parents farm in Lee on 152 and "you cant get there from here, boy". The road is shut down through Nottingham and Rt 4 is closed by the Lee circle. Also I heard that 108 from durham is under water. Just a good day to stay at home.

Anyone know of a BA/jetski conversion kit?

Latest from my lunch hour tour...
Pasaconaway golf course is completely submerged, I did see the top of a flag sticking out of the H2O...the Merrimack is still hours away from cresting point and is threatening to cross 3a (Charles Bancroft Hwy) 13 miles of fine twisties...Maquestans Farm is GONE the only part left is the two buildings right on 3a (at least they seam to be taking it in stride...their sign out front says "got water??" some of the VERY nice "golf course side" homes 500-750 K are stand alone islands and it's only gona get worse over the next day or so....

Hey Rob,

Don't look now, but I hear Kevin Costner, in yet ANOTHER of his "brillant career moves", is on his way to your neck o' the woods, planning a sequel to that waterlogged Box Office bomb of a few years back.

I'm tellin' ya...that guy KNOWS a "sure winner" when he sees one, huh?!

Cheers,
Dwight
(I thought Jolson sang about "April Showers"...this is MAY, for god's sake)

I guess my Monday golf league is cancelled this week. It's a good thing because I stink at hitting over water hazards.

here is a link for 100's of pics of the flooding www.wmur.com In the center "TOP STORIES" section click on the yellow # 3 (see viewers flooding pictures) block and follow the link to the slide shows

I went to a wedding last fall, end of october in Farmington, CT. It was a sunny day, but It HAD rained the whole previous week or something like that. The golf course was just a couple little mounds, and the water was still rising because of the river being fed still by all the flooded areas. The river broke over the bank DURING the ceremony, and afterwards we watching it rise up the patio. Brick by brick... you could watch it. We even had to go back a different way than we came cause of the roads closed.
AND!! There were pumpkins floating down the river!! Actually kinda funny. Also not nearly as bad as this!

alden, newmarket now has one way in, one way out. the only way in is by way of exeter 108 north through statham, but now downtown has a torrent running trough it and the dam is just holding. all kinds of news media here. my wife works at the lee circle and has to go way out of the way just to get to work, but hey as i write this the sun has FINALLY come out. i can't wait to ride again. i'm sure you know what i mean.

Rained like hell here yesterday morning, then got sunny again! Sunny here today too. Still puddles everywhere, but sunny! I hope you guys can drain out soon.

Kathy Bagirl said:
" think I saw the animals going by two-by-two!"

Hmmm. My copy of The Book reads seven-by-seven (clean animals), while the unclean went two-by-two.

ITS SUNNY, well kind of. But that better than raining. The water here is receding rapidly. Now we going to need a little rain on fri to wash all the sand, gravel and yuck off the roads so I can ride this weekend.
Dill