Just HOW lucky were we???

[The Eagle]

Look and see!
http://www.mansfieldheliflight.com/flood/
"The Eagle"

[KTO]

Or, closer to home, some video I took up in Plymouth, NH from the Pemi River flooding.

Amazing is the power of water.

(SIDE NOTE: At this time, the water had receded quite a bit from the night before)

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[SIKSUKR]

Actually that flooding in Plymouth is fairly common, especially on the appropriately named Water street. Usually occurs more with the spring snow melt though. One year when I attended PSC the bridge shown in the video had a huge ice dam up against it with water over the bridge. They blasted it with dynamite. Lots of fun for a college student to watch with a sixpack.

[KTO]

Yeah last year the ice flow was a problem again. It completely flooded the parking lot near the ice arena, and then froze (that was a problem). I think they eventually added a heavy plow to a front loader and got the ice out of the lot.

I think every year I've been here there's been SOME flood warning or another. This one took the cake by recent standards.

[Rattlesnake Guy]

Saw a bridge standing in a river bed yesterday in western Mass. No land around it any longer. Just the concrete bridge 12 feet above the river bed. We got lucky.