Flood Story.

New Hampshire's getting hit again with another rainy nor'easter. People are thinking the rain is done, but we're probably going to get hit again with another round because the storm keeps spiraling over our heads.

Our street was pretty beat up last year because of flooding. An entire chunk of our road was turned into a rushing waterfall that we could hear from our house. There was no way out by car. We were pretty much trapped in our neighborhood.

Out into town, trees were down everywhere. An entire road was turned into a swimming pool. There were outages in about 60% of the houses. And the scariest thing was the dam was on the verge of breaking. People scrambled to put sandbags down on it to hold it together. It seemed like any moment, the dam was going to break. Thank god it didn't.

Almost everyone I knew was evacuated.

I remember our street getting evacuated to the Rec Center. We were given 15 minutes to pack our belongings and head out. It was originally voluntary, but then it was mandatory. We HAD to leave. I forgot what I brought because we were in too much of a rush. As soon as we left our power was shut off and there was no turning back.

But we went back anyways. After about 30 minutes at the Rec, we went back to our house to get some more stuff. And then after about 20 more minutes there, my dad and I took the truck out of the Rec parking lot and drove down to his workplace right on the beach. I thought it was suicide, but we made it. And the damage was pretty devastating. I had to help with cleanup.

We were only evacuated for about 10 hours before calling the town hall and asking for our utilities to be put back on-line. The rain had stopped and the water had subsided so there was no point in us being evacuated.

We were lucky. Some people lost their homes.

And now the same thing's happening if only a little less intense. People's houses are once again, getting flooded. An entire street's been evacuated. And although the rain's quiet right now, the wind's still howling, reminding us that the storm's not over.

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