I didn't realize I had my video on. I thought it was taking a picture. This is somewhat nausea inducing, somewhat cool, and wholly unintentional.
Tnis is like 2 seconds of flooding.
This was taken in Woburn on Sunday afternoon, Mother's day. It's hard to tell, but that's a car up to it's windows. The floods didn't peak for another 36 hours.
Unfortunately, most of these pictures were taken from my car and are therefore pretty crappy. Since I was, you know, supposed to be driving at the time. This is the bridge between my office and daycare. These were taken at about 1 pm on Monday May 16th.
The high water mark. This is the back door into our office. You can see the line of debris -- this is how high the water got. Note: this is very high. I'm glad they turned off the power, because this was inches away from flooding the building.
18 hours after the Merrimack had crested, you can see that it is still at the very tip-tip of the bank. The river is usually 7 - 8 feet below this point. It's on level with the parking lot. Yikes.
Another car picture, same bridge different direction. You can see how high the river is -- nearly to the structural part of the bridge.