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[QUOTE="succubus:427811"]New England Floods Force Hundreds to Flee CONCORD, 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. "It's a very serious situation," said New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, adding that forecasters were predicting 12 to 15 inches of rain by the end of the storm in parts of southern New Hampshire. "It continues to change and the situation continues to worsen." In some towns, police and fire crews used boats to get people out of their homes and stranded cars after hundreds of roads were damaged. Others got around in kayaks. Some towns shut down, not letting anyone pass except emergency vehicles. "The town is cut right in half," said Glenn Laramie, police chief in Andover, N.H. 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. The state Office of Emergency Management said at least a dozen dams were being closely watched. In Massachusetts, cars were pulled from flooded streets in downtown Peabody, about 20 miles north of Boston, and about 300 people were evacuated from an apartment complex for seniors. Businesses stacked sandbags at their doors, trying to prevent damage from water that at one point rose to waist-deep. "I have no heat, I have no hot water, and my cellar is flooded up to its tippy top," said Esther Gibely, who sought shelter at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School. About 150 residents in Melrose, Mass., had to leave their homes after sewage lines were overwhelmed, backing up into houses, said Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. About 10 communities in the northeast section of the state opened temporary shelters, Romney said. Some parts of New Hampshire had seen 7 inches of rain by midday Sunday and forecasters said up to 5 more inches might come during the day. About 100 residents were evacuated from their homes in Wakefield, N.H., because of concerns about two dams in the area. Officials also reported a railroad culvert and embankment washed out in Milton, with train tracks suspended in midair. And the local emergency management office in Hooksett said the town essentially was closed because so many roads were flooded. Tom Johnson said water was flowing on Sunday into the basement of his Salem home, where a pump that handles 1,500 gallons of water an hour was not keeping up. "My back yard is an ocean," Johnson said. "It looks like the beach." Flooding in New Hampshire in October killed seven people, carried off homes and washed away miles of roads down to bedrock. In Maine, flooding was reported on 60 roads in the southern part of the state, said governor's spokeswoman Crystal Canney. More than 50 homes in Sanford and several in Kennebunk also were evacuated, state officials said. Several shelters were opened up across the affected region. "We were just an average American family thinking about maybe a summer vacation this year and now we're homeless," said Yetta Chin, who sought shelter at a Kennebunk fire station with her husband, their three children and a dog. [/QUOTE]
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