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Originally Posted by Lin
Our police/fire scanner is going crazy, not just down where we live in MA where we had an earlier tornado warning, but the lakes region radio is alive with trees down and major flooding events. I hear at Ames Campground they said cars and people in the water and flooding at Jellystone and near Hawkins Pond. Sounds pretty serious. My brotherinlaw and family returned from camping at the White Mountains today due to the rain and the river floodings. Take care everyone up there especially driving near flooded areas, and please keep the kids away from the culverts and rivers.
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Thank you Lin for mentioning the trees. With the ground saturated and many trees pre-stressed by the many high wind events of this summer, it won't take as much wind to bring them down anymore. They will uproot easily in wet soil, and many will break readily if they have already experienced high wind recently. There have been reports of trees down/across wires even on nice days, most likely due to damage the tree had taken on a stormy day without falling at that time.
Also there have been many road washouts in northwestern NH as you mentioned, and more will probably occur. In Maine they are now discouraging people from getting on the rivers because the water level is very high and flow is becoming fast.
Black Cat Is. Wx has just reached the 1-inch rainfall total for the day, all of which has fallen since 5 pm. This brings the total for the first seven days of August to 3.25 inches. The normal monthly total at Concord Airport is 3.32 inches. We will reach and surpass that, within the next hour.
The lightning at the lake has been nonstop since about 530 pm. Very frequent cloud-to-ground, sometimes three or four at a time, over different places. The sky is alive with electricity, mostly to the south of here but not far. Bear Island has been hit several times, and I saw one hit Three Mile.