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Rains keep New Englanders from homes

 

Driving rain eases -- for now -- after worst flooding since 1930s

 

 

Wednesday, May 17, 2006; Posted: 1:16 a.m. EDT (05:16 GMT)

 

 

METHUEN, Massachusetts (AP) -- Driving rains that caused the worst flooding in New England since the 1930s finally eased up Tuesday, but washed-out roads and the danger of dam breaks prevented many people from returning to their homes.

More than a foot of rain fell across New Hampshire, Massachusetts and southern Maine between Friday and Tuesday, with up to 17 inches in some places.

Police reported a single fatality, a 59-year-old man whose body was found in a submerged car north of Boston, Massachusetts.

Gov. Mitt Romney said the damage would reach tens of millions of dollars in Massachusetts alone. And more rain was forecast for the weekend.

But on Tuesday, the worst appeared to be over. In Maine, roads reopened and the threat against two dams on the Salmon Falls River eased.

In Methuen, Massachusetts, state and federal engineers watched a granite dam in danger of collapse after it was reinforced with 5,000 sandbags.

Many property owners began cleaning up, although major rivers remained above flood stage.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/05/16/new.england.flooding.ap/index.html

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Things may become worse in the coming days.

Attention is needed.

Best wishes,

Jorge

 

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Flood

Watches Remain As Storm Clears

Warning In

Effect Around Goffs Falls

 

POSTED:

6:07 pm EDT May 18, 2006

UPDATED:

6:11 pm EDT May 19, 2006

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Flood watches remained in effect through Friday

night, but rains were moving out of the area.

Friday's storm

brought up to 1.5 inches of rain across much of southern New

Hampshire. Small rivers and streams were expected to rise Friday

night, and some could go slightly above flood stage.

The only flood warning still in

effect was for areas near the Merrimack River at Goffs Falls, where the

river remained above flood stage. It was likely to stay above flood stage for

the next two days.

Showers and some thunderstorms were

expected to continue Friday across northern areas and across the Connecticut

River Valley, while most of

southern New Hampshire will remain dry except for a

possible passing shower.

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Jorge Angelino

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quarta-feira, 17 de Maio de

2006 10:22

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US - Rains keep New

Englanders from homes

 

 

Rains

keep New Englanders from homes

Driving

rain eases -- for now -- after worst flooding since 1930s

 

Wednesday, May 17,

2006; Posted: 1:16 a.m. EDT (05:16 GMT)

 

 

 

 

 

METHUEN, Massachusetts (AP) -- Driving

rains that caused the worst flooding in New

England since the 1930s finally eased up

Tuesday, but washed-out roads and the danger of dam breaks prevented many

people from returning to their homes.

More

than a foot of rain fell across New Hampshire, Massachusetts and

southern Maine between Friday and Tuesday, with up

to 17 inches in some places.

Police

reported a single fatality, a 59-year-old man whose body was found in a

submerged car north of Boston, Massachusetts.

Gov.

Mitt Romney said the damage would reach tens of millions of dollars in Massachusetts alone. And

more rain was forecast for the weekend.

But

on Tuesday, the worst appeared to be over. In Maine, roads

reopened and the threat against two dams on the Salmon Falls River eased.

In Methuen, Massachusetts, state and

federal engineers watched a granite dam in danger of collapse after it was

reinforced with 5,000 sandbags.

Many

property owners began cleaning up, although major rivers remained above flood

stage.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/05/16/new.england.flooding.ap/index.html

Dear

Lists,

Things

may become worse in the coming days.

Attention

is needed.

Best

wishes,

Jorge

Dasha:

Ve/Sa/Mo/Ra/Ra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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