When it rains...

Post by **SarahofBorg** » Sun May 14, 2006 3:14 pm

it pours.
State of emergency in my part of Massachusetts. Up to 15 inches of rain expected. Fortunetly I live on a hill, but my roof leaks. Gallons.
Might hear about it on the news.

Post by **Quest** » Sun May 14, 2006 3:21 pm

how many buckets you got?

Post by **SarahofBorg** » Sun May 14, 2006 3:36 pm

I have two large bins that have filled at least twice each.

Post by **Quest** » Sun May 14, 2006 3:51 pm

SarahofBorg wrote:I have two large bins that have filled at least twice each.

i bet you do.
=)

Post by **psi29a** » Sun May 14, 2006 4:09 pm

It counts as a current event, so I moved the thread to its new home.

Hope you have a sub-pump running.

Post by **Libaax** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:34 pm

It sounds fun

Post by **SarahofBorg** » Sun May 14, 2006 8:12 pm

Heh, I keep hearing "stay the hell away from the Merrimack river." I don't live too close to it, but tommorow I have a final in class at college in Haverhill, literally across the street from the Merrimack.
Maybe I'll get lucky? :O
I hear it's up to 5 feet flooding in Peobody, which is less than 10 miles from me, but the city is below sea level and always floods.
I actually live across the street from a swamp that flows through a dam, but I'm very uphill from it. They closed off the street though, makes me wanna walk down there and try not to drown.
*looks out window*
Whoa, it looks like a small river going down the street on the hill. I wish I had my camera. My nieghbor's backyard is a pond now. I would bet at least 3 feet deep.

[edit]
HOLY FUCK!

I decided to take a walk down the road to see the swamp and dam, especially since I kept seeing people going down the closed-off road.
There IS no road anymore. It's GONE. Just a giant river now, and you wouldn't even know there was a dam! I don't even mean that the swamp has merely submerged the road, but it washed it away! No more road, just a cliff, waterfall, and rapid river from the dam.
Oh I wish I wish I wish I had my camera!

[edit again]

I decided to walk down there again. Since I left, a gaurdrail that was in the path of the river bent over considerably. The damage is clearly far from being done.
Some firemen were there and said "you shouldn't walk any closer than this" and it was much further than where I was before. When I get my camera it doesn't look like I'll get a good view of the dam, but the road is a gonner.

Weatherman: "Salem is completely submerged." Heh.

Anyhow, after the firemen left some men drove down and decided to to walk right to the edge of the former road and look over the edge. Biggest dum-fucks I ever saw. The river literally goes underneath the former road normally, so I would assume that there's maybe 1-2 feet of ground between those idiots and the former swamp. If it broke off they'd have been washed away and probably killed in the rapids.
I didn't stick around to see their possible demise.

[edit again]

Of course I just went back to the dam. Just as I suspected, the very spot of bridge those morons were standing on just collapsed. Not only that, but MORE idiots were standing on the new ledge before I yelled at them and made them come back.

Website · Post by **Damien** » Sun May 14, 2006 9:34 pm

Sarah what part of MA u from?

Post by **SarahofBorg** » Sun May 14, 2006 9:35 pm

North Shore, very close to North Andover and Danvers.

Website · Post by **Damien** » Sun May 14, 2006 9:36 pm

SarahofBorg wrote:North Shore, very close to North Andover and Danvers.

Oh I see, ever in the Worcester area? ^_^.

Its been raining a friggen ton here too, basically the whole week.

Post by **SarahofBorg** » Sun May 14, 2006 9:39 pm

I've been there a little. I heard it isn't getting nearly as much as us

But it only started raining here 2 days ago, we got about a week of rain to go.

Post by **Libaax** » Sun May 14, 2006 9:55 pm

Im from part of the world that rain is seen as a blessing from the sky so i have always liked when it rained.

How is things going? Are you guys going to school and stuff or is everything closed down?

Post by **SarahofBorg** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:34 am

I know all buisnesses and schools in Peobody are going to be closed tommorow.
I have a class tommorow in Haverhill, who knows whats gonna happen. It's my final so it would literally take hell or high water to close it.

I just took some pictures of the washed-out bridge.

<--neighbors yard

Post by **Buzkashi** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:11 am

Damn the road got messed up.

Post by **psi29a** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:48 pm

Nice pics.

Here is some news:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060515/D8HK5HI00.html

and

Heaviest Rains in a Decade

Post by **panasonic** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:25 pm

man, good thing i live above sea level

Post by **psi29a** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:28 pm

Considering that Mass. is above sea level, I'm affraid that above or below would be irrelevant this in this case.

Website · Post by **Damien** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:37 pm

Yeah its still raining too lol.

Post by **Deathbringer** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:25 pm

Damien wrote:Yeah its still raining too lol.

Still?

When did the rain started?

Post by **SarahofBorg** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:32 am

2 days ago I belive. It's gonna keep raining too, for at least a week.
I got more pics, can't post em yet though. I went to Haverhill and took pics of the Merrimack.
My road is about the same though.

This is the Merrimack river in Haverhill. It definitly *will* get much higher, and it will get worse.

It took me an hour and a half to get back from Haverhill, when it should have taken a half hour. I had to take a million detours.

Here's one more pic. This was known as "river walk." There was an actual road under this.

Website · Post by **Damien** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:54 am

It will be raining for 7 days tommrrow.

Btw I LOVE rain.

Yeah that is alot of water. I love the rain yet this is getting out of hand.

Post by **panasonic** » Wed May 17, 2006 8:56 pm

man here in toronto its been raining for the past few days too, though not as bad as the sarahofborg's place

Post by **MrFelony** » Wed May 17, 2006 11:35 pm

we just had some big hail in chicago. my dad called me saying he wish his new explorer was back in our garrage. i could hear the hail over his voice. they got relatively big.

Post by **halfnhalf** » Thu May 18, 2006 5:18 am

wow, just wow, i already got the summer tan lines. Ive only be to two areas on the east coast, NY and Florida.

Sorry about the rain, but yah rain in southern cali is like a wtf moment.

Post by **Buzkashi** » Thu May 18, 2006 6:08 am

halfnhalf wrote:wow, just wow, i already got the summer tan lines. Ive only be to two areas on the east coast, NY and Florida.

Sorry about the rain, but yah rain in southern cali is like a wtf moment.

God I dislike the summer. The winter is what its all about. I hate not being able to snowboard whenever I want.