Newmarket is getting kinda soggy.
We drove out Packers Falls Rd to try and get a look at the flooded Lamprey River. The road was closed at the bridge over Follet’s Brook, by the treatment plant, due to water over the road. Follets Brook had given up on being able to get through the bridge fast enough, and decided to go around.
Evacuating folks on Packers Falls Rd. Dan had driven home along this road about ten minutes previously.
We parked the car by the water treatment plant (whose lower windows were sandbagged against the water
and walked the 1.5 or 2 miles down the road to Packers Falls.
The Lamprey was incredibly high below the bridge (you can see the guardrail disappearing into the water),
and well into people’s yards above.
This little outbuilding is almost underwater.
There’s really only a culvert going under this bridge.
By the time we made it back to Follet’s Brook, they’d closed the road before the bridge, and were just stringing tape across. A very nice National Guardsman waved us through. We had to duck under another piece of caution tape at the corner of Packer’s Falls and Elm St. Elm was closed before the railroad tracks. Didn’t look like the trains would be running for a couple of days.
I’m really really happy that we live up on a hill.
UPDATE: I take back what I said about “kinda” soggy. The Union Leader has two pictures of downtown Newmarket. Now that’s a lot of water. Downstream of the dam, too.
