Beavers paralyzes Route 63 in Hinsdale NH

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There is the beaver culprit. What caused it, 200 feet of elevation between the beaver pond and the culvert across route 63.  It is only 1/3 of a mile away. You only appreciate the incline by walking it down.

What do you say, between $500,00 to $1,000,000 damage on both incidents. The beaver ponds are on state property....what a waste of state monies.











At least two lakeside beaver condos....







This below is the last time it happened..about two mile south of this one.  

Flooding paralyzes western region of N.H.

 

Monday, October 10, 2005

KEENE — After more than a day and a half of drenching rain, rivers and streams overflowed throughout New Hampshire on Sunday, flooding homes, washing out roads, threatening bridges and prompting evacuations.

"This is classic river flooding," said Jim Van Dongen, spokesman for the state Emergency Management office. "It's been raining since Friday night and there is nowhere for the water to go."

One Hinsdale resident, 19-year-old Sean Weeks, was awakened by firefighters about 3:30 a.m. and told to evacuate from his apartment house — just next to the stone bridge.

"I looked out my window and all I could see - straight down - was water, right up against the building," Weeks said. "I saw all this New Orleans stuff happening and I was thinking, `This can't happen to me,' then bada-bing, bada-boom, it just happened."

Weeks came out just in time to see a house across the street collapse into the raging water. No one was in the house at the time.

By late afternoon, police allowed him to return home to grab an armful of belongings: clothes, a construction tool belt, a backpack and a rifle.

This washout wasn't cause by the heavy rains...another beaver dam let go