Anyone here from New England experiencing flooding?

[boston bean]

Has it stopped raining?

They keep saying it is going to stop, but it keeps pouring here in my little section of Massachusetts.

Chickenbrook runs along our property line and has expanded to at least 10-15x its normal size. Chickenbrook is a tributary of the Charles River.

If you are from Massachusetts let me know if it has stopped where you live. I am in Norfolk County.

[DS1]

1. Framingham

Stopped raining. Rained hard last night.

[Chan790]

3. Connecticut

at my mom's house in Hartford, 8 days of rain. No flooding yet, still raining.

[Horse with no Name]

20. I have a friend in Trumbull

She told me yesterday that the water had broken through into her basement.

[Chan790]

24. happened to my neighbor today.

His wife is upset because her foundation leaked. He said that it'll never rain for 9 days straight again in their lifetime and the foundation hadn't leaked in the past 25 years so he wasn't concerned.

[boston bean]

4. Hopefully it will stop here soon enough, the "brook" keeps

rising. 109 is closed and detoured.

[DS1]

9. Just started again

pretty heavy rainfall

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Franklin Co. here

It hasn't stopped...despite the weather map on MSRNC telling me it has...sigh. There's a small lake in my yard, and my swamp is rising, rising, rising. Our town was on CNN this week, due to the trailer park that was destroyed here...the whole north side of town is seriuosly f'd up since last weekend, and it just keeps going! x(

[boston bean]

5. We're all getting a little worried here at the house. We have never

seen it this high. I called down to the water department on thursday and asked if chickenbrook ever flooded and they said that not that they know of and that they have worked there since 1981.

[bicentennial_baby]

11. my swamp's never been this high

it would have to get a heck of a lot higher to flood us, but my basement is suffering! flood city down there...starting the sump pump soon, but the ground is so damn saturated, it's probably not gonna go down for a bit.

[boston bean]

13. that sucks, my basement has not flooded yet, but my

neighbors are very susceptible to it. They have their sump pumps roaring.

[TiredOfLies]

6. other than

using a rowboat to get kids to the school bus, it's nice

[danalytical]

7. Still raining in Hartford

Not much now, but last night it was raining pretty good. The brooks I passed on the way in were very close to spilling onto the roads, but without another day of rain like yesterday we'll be fine I think. Some of those brooks looked like roaring rivers though. I know the CT River has flooded into low lying areas and the parks. Some roads were under a foot or two of water last night, but all in all it's not nearly as bad as I remember some rain storms in the past.

[tk2kewl]

8. It finally stopped raining on L.I.

I live on a canal and a lot of people in the neighborhood had flooding problems. Some of the older houses with lower bulkheads were surrounded by water at high tide. Anyone with basements or crawl spaces have had pumps running nonstop for days. Fortunately my house was built in 92 after codes required a higher base elevation so we're ok.

[maine_raptor]

10. Just drizzle here in Maine

Had a few showers this week, but that was it. Besides I'm on top of a 600 foot hill, if it floods me out.......

By The Way: I'm getting really, really pissed at the bimbos (male and female) on the newscasts. Will someone please tell them that New England consists of Me, NH, Vt, Conn, RI, and Mass. New Jersey and New York are NOT part of New England. They are Middle Atlantic states.

We disowned them years ago. :evilgrin:

[boston bean]

12. lol

:P

[tk2kewl]

14. we are not mid-atlantic

we are part of the Northeast, but not New England

[MaineDem]

17. Right on!!!

I haven't said that in years! :rofl:

I'm so annoyed whent he national weather people put a logo or something over Maine. The US extends beyond Boston, guys!

[newyawker99]

15. Finally! Sun and blue skies in NYC.

:bounce:

[Braden]

16. essex co.

so far nothing the shop vac can't handle. but a quick look outside shows the drain beginning to cause standing water. By my guess my house is about 5' above the drain, so we should be ok. But parts of Peabody are sure to be underwater in a major way

[merbex]

18. My husband just got back from errands in the Hingham/ Weymouth

area

Water is bubbling up from storm drains and small cars cannot traverse Lower Jackson Square in Weymouth without flooding of vehicles; a lot of cars are turning around creating a traffic nightmare

[Atman]

19. I'm just south of Hartford...trains can't get here from NYC

My aunt was trying to make it up to Springfield for my mom's birthday this evening. The lines are washed out in places. She got on the train in Philly, being told they would be able to make it to Springfield. But then they said they wouldn't get past NYC. She just called from NY, waiting to leave, but now were only going to get as far as New Haven.

A massive section of Interstate 91 collapsed, and another section a few miles north is underwater. 1-91 is completely closed in large sections north of Hartford.

My studio has been leaking for three days, and a large section of road at the end of my driveway washed away two days ago. The town tried to fix it -- during the rainstorm -- with cold patch. Last night was the worst of the rain, and the patch-job washed away, and I've got a sinkhole at the end of my driveway again.

Not sure how we're making it to mom's birthday tonight, but they're claiming I-91 will be open this afternoon. I'll believe it when I see it. The water is shooting up out of the manholes in my town, like geysers. It's truly amazing how bad it is here.

The sun is supposed to come out today, but then high winds are coming with it. The ground is so saturated, they're telling us to be ready for prolonged power outages, and trees' roots systems will not be able to hang on the mud, so trees will be falling all over.

Have a nice day!

[danalytical]

21. Where do you live?

I live in Newington, today I'm in Hartford and yesterday I was in Berlin. I didn't seee or hear about anything that drastic. Are you near the river or something??

[Atman]

22. Wethersfield. The Silas Deane has the water coming up through man-holes.

It was at it's worst last night. Roads are closed all over town still. Check out the the NBC station; they're the ones reporting on the I-91 closings. We're barely a mile from the Connecticut River, so maybe that's just close enough to back up the storm drains so bad, since they dump into the river.

[danalytical]

23. Wow I haven;t seen anything that bad in Newington.

A lot of water and high brooks, but no major flooding or filled manholes. Sheesh we're bordering towns.

[Chan790]

25. What a difference 2 miles makes.

I'm in the South End of Hartford so close to Wethersfield (Maybe 6 blocks from the Berlin Tpke.) that it's practically spitting distance and as I said earlier, it's rained but we have had no floodinng that I've seen. Well, my neighbor's foundation started to leak but that was because the water collected around the base of his house and seeped in.

I've heard the waterfront all up and down the CT River in Hartford is a mess though. I was at the convention center 3 days ago and it was marshy even then.