Based on the total natural disasters over the past 70 years, Maine and New Hampshire rank as two of the best states to avoid natural calamity in the nation.
Stunning video from Warren, New Hampshire: This house got totally swept away down the Baker River after massive flooding associated with last night's storm and record rainfall.
It was a warm spring in 1987 which caused the snow to melt quicker than usual. Add that to a slow moving powerful rain, the rivers and streams couldn't handle the excess water which caused them to crest. What followed was a flood like the state had never seen...
On March 31, 1987, I was a bartender at Bravo's Mexican Restaurant in downtown Gardiner. I was closing the restaurant for the night, when the owner called me and told me to put out 7 or 8 sandbags in front of the back door (the River side) he had brought in earlier and left in the office as he had heard that it was possible the Kennebec might flood and we could get hit with some minor damage...
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