This time, the most recent disaster has struck my own region...New England. Flooding from two separate three-day-long rainstorms has caused considerable damage to Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The city of Boston has shattered a rain record with the recent three-week rainfall of thirteen inches--that's about as much water as thirty feet of snow.
I'm lucky enough to live on a hill, so my house is fine, but surrounding neighborhoods are drenched. I've seen houses that are just sitting in the middle of knee-deep puddles. And my region got off easy...down in Rhode Island, I've heard that some places are absolutely devastated. This flooding has now officially been classified as a state disaster, and we're getting some federal relief money now.
So...any thoughts on this? Anyone else live around here?
I'm lucky enough to live on a hill, so my house is fine, but surrounding neighborhoods are drenched. I've seen houses that are just sitting in the middle of knee-deep puddles. And my region got off easy...down in Rhode Island, I've heard that some places are absolutely devastated. This flooding has now officially been classified as a state disaster, and we're getting some federal relief money now.
So...any thoughts on this? Anyone else live around here?