Winters in New Hampshire

[FiveHorses]

[quote=BF66389;7549383]Another key point is that how much mud season or even heavy rains affect you really depends on where you live. /quote]

I meant to ask that in my last post - i.e. have the floods been equally bad all over the state or did certain areas get hit/continue to be hit harder than others?

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by FiveHorses

Our drought has cost livelihoods, but not lives. The wildlife is hurting too as not only is there no water or forage, but a phenomenal number of trees have been lost.

I saw on a national map that NH (and a lot of New England in general) was at +4 inches over the normal amount of precip for 09 already. (It was just a "greater than", no actual amount given).

It's a conundrum.... and water is something we research very carefully when looking for where to live. Aside from rain/forage/grazing, I can't tell you how many places I've looked at in other states where the owner has disclosed that, yes, the well has run dry.

Precip has been at or below average so far this year in south-central NH.

[nicolem]

[QUOTE=FiveHorses;7552412]

Originally Posted by BF66389

Another key point is that how much mud season or even heavy rains affect you really depends on where you live. /quote]

I meant to ask that in my last post - i.e. have the floods been equally bad all over the state or did certain areas get hit/continue to be hit harder than others?

The floods were in October 2005, May 2006 and April or May 2007. Last summer we had floods with a tornado as well.

October 2005-the worst damage was the Monadnock area however other parts of the state had damage as well. Significant damage in Keene, Peterboro, etc. Houses washed away in Alstead and 7 people died.

May 2006 and Apr/May 2007-widespread flood damage. Some places badly hit twice like Goffstown, Suncook, Manchester. During one of the floods I know Loudon had one of their roads completely wiped out. Some people had just started to rebuild only to be wiped out again. I lived in Concord at the time and while we suffered no damage, right down the road an entire first floor of an apartment building was washed out from a stream that overflowed. Many towns off of 101 and by the seacoast were damaged as well. I believe parts of Newmarket have been hit more than once. I know Dover was hit bad one time because people that my husband worked with-their condo was flooded. I know parts of the north country were hit hard during one of the floods too. It took my husband more than double his commute for a good week because so many roads were either washed out or temporarily closed and he had to take detours. The first day of the flood in 2007- he could not get from Concord to Dover because he gave up after trying many alternate roads.

Summer 2008-Lakes region/Plymouth area hit hard. Weir's Beach boardwalk washed out and local roads suffered sever damage. A young girl was killed in a flash flood in the Plymouth area.

Very few places in the state received no damage in one or more of these floods.

This is a mini recap.. There are really too many for me to remember or mention. There are many towns that suffered damage and I don't recall them all. Your best bet is to do a lot of googling and when you decide on a town really do your research. WMUR may have the slideshow and stories in their archives. Some of the pictures are just unbelieveable.

[FiveHorses]

Thanks nicolem - very helpful and I appreciate it.

[MtDreamer]

In the areas that got flooded was it just homes that were near lakes and streams. I lived in Texas and we got a lot of floods and you didn't have to live near any waterways. If it rained there it flooded. Also a question on gray and gloom. Are parts of the state more sunny then others? I would imagine that the White Mountain area you would get a lot more gray days but how about the lower parts of the state?