[NormsRevenge]

Flood waters rush down Walnut Street in Peabody, Mass., Sunday, May 14, 2006, after heavy rain. Gov. Mitt Romney declared a state of emergency Sunday, activating the National Guard and other state services to help local officials respond to the torrential rain that hasn't let up since Friday. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)

[NormsRevenge]

A flooded car is shown in a shopping center Sunday, May 14, 2006, in Hooksett, N.H. Torrential rain forced hundreds of people from their homes in parts of New England on Sunday, as water flowed over dams and washed out roads. The governors of New Hampshire and Massachusetts declared states of emergency, activating the National Guard to help communities respond to the storm. Maine's governor also declared a state of emergency for one county. (AP Photo/Larry Crowe)

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A buoyant flood road would have saved them; but, sigh : you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink...so now they are drinking flood water...

[Bahbah]

Are you keeping your head above water out there?

[MAexile]

I'm up here in Derry, NH. I think the flood waters have stooped rising. Of course the swamp behind the house looks like a river now, and the local golf course resembles an inland sea...

[Gay State Conservative]

And in a related story,the QE II was seen pulling into Hyannisport Harbor to rescue the panic stricken inhabitants of that quaint working-class Bay State village.

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Prayers for an end to the rain and safety for those in the path of flooding.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Here's a car that was pulled from the flood:

[jla]

Build an ark and allow only conservatives aboard.
Be vigilant though, as Mitt Romney may very well disguise himself and try to sneak on.

[MaDeuce]

Tell me about it ... I've been pumping out my basement since 7am this morning and am not going to sleep to night because I have to keep pumping every 45 minutes or so to keep the water from covering the entire basement floor.

I'm in fear of my septic system and leach field backing up into the house. No showers, no flushing (unless it brown), and use paper plates.

I've been running the wood stove since this morning also in the basement to help dry out things.

After this ... I don't want to see rain again till after Labor day ... I don't care if my bushes and grass die ... I'm about ready for Arizona now.

When will this miserable rain end!!!!!!

[nutmeg]

Checking my basement a couple of times a day. So far so good...

[Mongeaux]

A dam in Milton, N.H., was in danger of failing, which could send a 10-foot wall of water downstream, the National Weather Service said in a bulletin. People downstream were being evacuated in the town.

I live about 3 minutes downriver of that dam and they are asking everybody in my mobile home park to evacuate. But I am too comfy - after all it's RAINING outside. I drove up to Milton NH and got pics of it just before sunset:















No sign of the 10 foot wall of water yet but I am keeping an eye out for it.

[Poser]

My 43 year old house has a foot of water in the cellar. It has never had any water in the past and the rain is still pouring outside.

I live in Rochester, New Hampshire. If my cellar is flooded, others must be in desperate shape.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I wish you could send some of this to NM. Even the cactus on my place are dying.

[SamAdams76]

I live 30 miles NW of Boston and it's been pretty much steady rain for about a week now. The rains came in last Monday night and haven't seen much of the sun since. Since Friday at rush hour, it's been more or less a steady downpour.

My basement has always been prone to flooding so I have two sump pumps working overtime. Fortunately I had B-Dry dig some sump wells into the basement floor so I am able to pump the water out before it comes up to floor level. But that's becoming an exercise in futility because their is a lake in my backyard and the water I'm pumping out just makes the lake bigger and the water just seeps right back into the basement wells. So I'm pumping the same water over and over again. But at least the basement is staying dry. If I lose power though, I'll have two or three feet of water down there within an hour.

All rivers and streams are up to their banks or overflowing their banks. And the rain is still falling. We haven't seen the worse flooding yet because the rivers are still rising and will continue to rise for at least 24 hours after the rain stops.

In general, the month of May has been a total washout around here. I still haven't mowed my grass or used my grill. Daytime temperatures rarely climb out of the 40s. Yesterday afternoon, I had my fireplace going!

Nothing but bone-chilling cold and dampness so far this spring. No global warming going on around here.

[AnAmericanMother]

Dang! In that first picture there's a good sized eddy behind the fire hydrant, and a surfing wave downstream of that.

Where are the playboaters?

Seriously, that is some VERY fast moving water. Hope the person in the doorway isn't thinking about stepping into it. Only takes a few inches to throw you off your feet.