WS has conjunctivitis and a sinus infection. He is on 3 different medications right now.
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It took me 100+ miles, 1/2 tank of gas, and 3 hours to get home last night. I won't be going to work today unless it is later when I can actually see the roads. I know that most roads I take are washed out, flooded, have mud slides, have bridges closed or dams breached. The town where I work has its own problems.
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Our road is now only 1 lane wide in some spots - like just above our driveway. It was undermined and buckled when the loader came up the road. WS put up reflectors so that people would have some warning to avoid that area.
We are lucky - our driveway held out just fine, the neighbor's across the street has a 3' deep crater in it. One of his vehicles was evacuated to our driveway, their others are stuck there until repairs to his driveway can be made (at least the vehicles are okay). Every other driveway on our road (that I saw) wasn't in much better shape than the neighbor's. People couldn't get onto Tubbs hill because of the wash-out and were parking at the top of Dickey Hill (which is now a whole 1.5 cars wide so was quite challanging to navagate when I finally got home last night. Last we knew, there is no getting out the other end of our road either.
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Slideshows of flooding in NH can be found here. A video that shows an area that I normally travel to work is on this page and is titled Landslide Closes 101. I don't travel that portion of 101, but it also shows the Souhegan River flooding the Boys and Girls Club in Milford - which I passed by twice yesterday i my quest to get home. I have travelled that road for 18 years and never seen the Souhegan get that high. I have no idea what the audio portion of this video says since my computer is crammed into a corner of the workout room (no extras like speakers attached to the computer - just the stuff needed for homework and email), but it should be interesting.
The Manchester Union Leader has several articles and pictures on the latest Nor'Easter as well as a story on the Souhegan River flooding. Here is a video, from the Nashua Telegraph, that shows the Souhegan from the Milford bridge just outside the oval (registration is required). I did manage to snag a picture of the Boys and Girls Club in Milford:
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Although there wasn't much good news in there - we are extremely thankful that our basement is dry, our driveway is in excellent condition, and no mudslides have occurred (knock on wood).
Between the flooding in New England and the shootings in Virginia, there are many troubled people on the East Coast, these days. Do you have an explanation of your driveway's having (so far) survived better than the driveways of your neighbors--or is it just the luck of the draw? Hope you can stay dry.
Posted by: Cop Car | April 17, 2007 at 08:02 AM
Sometimes you just take what you can as far as good luck goes. Glad the drive, basement, and slides haven't gotten you. Hope it stays that way.
Posted by: Wichi Dude | April 17, 2007 at 09:23 PM
Good God! How very lucky I am to live in Canada. You haven't been very fortunate lately. Must be a dark cloud hovering over your house.
Hope things get better.
Posted by: Matty | April 18, 2007 at 08:25 AM
WS has worked for years to make the driveway well draining and stable. We made new drainage ditches alongside the driveway 3-4 years ago and shoveled in massive amounts of sand and gravel for drainage. Around the same time we also brought in dump truck loads of hard-pack for the top of the driveway (WS hand spread that).
If you recall, that was also part of last year's project with the excavator - replace the culverts at the end of the driveway (and place them deeper).
It wasn't luck - it was WS's excellent and tireless work!
Posted by: bogie | April 19, 2007 at 04:04 AM