It's a bit drizzly in the northeast :(

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Vermont in particular is getting pummeled with rain (started in earnest Saturday evening or Sunday morning).

The Ottauquechee River in the center of Quechee, VT
This video is looking towards Simon Pearce Restaurant, right there by the dam. It's quite good (well, at least it was the last time I was there, which was pre-COVID). The table(s) overlooking the dam (that arched area) are considered some of the country's most romantic dining spots (and they are quite nice) :) Probably not tonight, though.



We've had much less rain across the river in NH, but the ground's pretty saturated and the streams in our little hamlet rose fast & furious(ly).
This is the normally placid little brook behind our local garage & general store.



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( to watch it, you'll have to click on it and play it from Flickr, sorry)

... and this is the somewhat larger brook that flows under our local covered bridge (the "Mill Bridge"). This photo was taken from a driveway bridge a bit downstream of the covered bridge.



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Here's a video from the small parking area next to the Mill Bridge.

 
I read a story elsewhere about an owner at a B&B who had a customer brought to them by the fire department. The customer had recently purchased a home that was on a riverbank. She heard a few snaps outside and saw tree limbs coming down the swollen river. And as she was outside observing it, the riverbank caved and her entire home collapsed. She's left with nothing but her dog now. 😞

We've never had flooding that bad where I live, but we did lose a favorite car back in 2014 due to a flood not too far from me. And we were spared our basement flooding--the neighborhood runs very slightly downhill towards the lake, and neighbors about 15 or so houses east of us all had their basements flood from the sewers.

Looks like it hasn't let up in Vermont yet either. 😕
 
Severe thunderstorms moving across VT (towards us in NH) even as I type this :( Not likely to be a regional issue, but local flash flooding's not unlikely, given that the ground is saturated.

I cut the lawn right around the house today -- had to leave some spots uncut (and also managed to leave some pretty bad ruts) as there were some pretty soggy areas after 3-3/4 inches of rain from that last storm.

We even transiently saw the return of a little impoundment we liked to call "Lake Hardy" out by the street after the storm. This is from a culvert draining the hill that's... umm... uphill from us on the road. It comes under the road and empties into our property. When we moved here, the outlet was blocked, and we had a nice fishpond-sized 'water feature' from spring thaw until early/mid summer. The town eventually scooped out the outlet of the culvert, and I dug a channel downstream to help spread out the runoff, and it's stayed pretty dry ever since. Until this week. ;)



It's a pretty small lake ;) Maybe (EDIT) 4 feet across and a foot deep -- barely visible amongst the weeds.
 
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Flash floods shut down the interstate just east of me this morning. That water will probably make a lake behind my house tomorrow.
 
MikeyFresh said:
I don't know exactly how much my little hamlet got from that last storm, but about 3 miles west of me they recorded 8.1" last Sunday.
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Yeah, it varied considerably from hamlet to village.
We're getting a fairly strong T-storm now, although it seems to be slacking off. Some of the thunder's shaken the house. I switched off most of the expensively delicate electronics in the house -- but I've still got the router routing. ;)
 
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