rain rain, go away!

[heckler]

Will this never stop?

Got out- in the car- yesterday to do some Mother's Day shopping. It meant driving through Saugus, past the Fells. I have NEVER seen so much water just running out of the woods. Like a bloody waterfall! Then in Saugus, one stinking little brook completley over it's banks shutting the whole place down! Amazing display by Mother Nature. On Mother's Day, of course. ::)

[Tim]

Sure is depressing - I've been telling people that April's finally here!

I hope everyone realizes that means they need to stay off sensitive trails for a few days AFTER it stops raining - just like in April.

Tim

[MissJean]

I work in Methuen, our building is literally a stone throw from the Spicket River. The parking lot butts up against the bank of the river.
The cops just closed the street and made up move our cars out of the parking lot.

It is just amazing who high the water is! It is roaring white water!

I took some pictures before the cops shooed everyone away.

Back to work now. :P

[off piste]

I went to work through Brookline, NH this morning. Lake Potanipo is amost on Mason Road in one part.

[wende]

Ugh! This is terrible. I work in Methuen too but school was canceled and my road is closed - home (again) with the kids in the rain!
I want to ride my bicycle!! I've lost 11 pounds thanks in a large part to biking with my husband & kids - a lot right at Winnikinni in Haverhill and around Amesbury. The last thing I want to do is go on the treadmill again.....

[benb]

It's getting extremely annoying but it's almost to the point where we stop worrying about getting out of shape due to not being able to ride and start worrying about flooding, losing power, state of emergency, etc...

I rode 3 times last week on my road bike, getting soaked and frozen each day. It is getting unbearable though.

[wende]

It is getting scary out there. I'm glad I'm safe and dry and worried about those who aren't.

[MR. Pinchy]

I had a pretty good ride to work today, saw a few temporary lakes and a few riverized, ( I'm sorry did I just make up a word), roads of which I was on none. I got to work drenched and HAPPY, and I'll do it again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day. See ya out there.

[heckler]

It IS bike-to-work-week, after all.

[splat]

I rode to work today ;D took the fixed gear, just to make it interesting ;D

[MissJean]

Wow, what a day down by the Spicket river! The river is just roaring over that dam, and they are quite worried about it holding. The cops, the fire dept, the DPW, city officals, channel 7 news and the national guard are all there, along with a constent flow of people wanting to get a look.
The view from the back of the building.

[MissJean]

The river is usually a good 12' below the wall. By this evening the water was lapping at the very edge of the wall.

[MissJean]

And the Nashua river, taken in Mine Falls Park.
Take heart tho, they are saying partly cloudy and upper 60 by Thursday.

[off piste]

And the Nashua river, taken in Mine Falls Park.
Take heart tho, they are saying partly cloudy and upper 60 by Thursday.




Yeah, but the trails aren't going to be rideable anytime soon. Unless you're racing, in which case, go have at it!

[MissJean]

Take heart tho, they are saying partly cloudy and upper 60 by Thursday.


Not advocating going out for a ride - just encouragement that the rain will end.

[hogboy]

all this rain means we can do burn piles
every night clearing old brush from the ice storm
a few years back. I am liking it...we are
clearing acres of brush in areas chippers
can't get to. old trail resurrection