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To: KLP who wrote (357175)	4/2/2010 10:08:10 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 793900

For some reason, I haven't thought much about floods in the NE...Snow, Blizzards, Ice, etc but really bad floods...? The pics you showed from 1992 looked to be a mess...water up to the door handles on the cars....Bet that took a long time to clean up! I have a friend in MA whose basement has been flooded for over a month. He gets it cleaned up and pumped out and another storm comes along. He's getting discouraged.

To: KLP who wrote (357175)	4/2/2010 11:33:46 AM
From: Jan W	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793900

In re to ObamaCare opinion in this area. I honestly haven't run into one person yet who likes or defends it. (Other than our duly elected nutcases - Shaheen, Shea-Porter and Hodes - each polluting the airwaves with self-congratulatory phone messages and tv ads.) 'The UNH Survey Center’s latest poll of Granite Staters showed that only 36 percent approved of Obama’s handling of health care policy, while 58 percent disapproved and 5 percent were neutral. Approval among independents was only 23 percent.' Anecdotally, I have a good friend down in metro Boston who was a die-hard, staunch supporter of Obamacare when it first started out. Any attempts to even debate the subject were absolutely futile. And now?? He's totally disgusted and sickened by the whole process and final result. Another lost MA Dem for Obama (and those nuts are hard to shake from the tree!) For a snapshot of NH, check out this video - I think you'll get a kick out of it. I don't think these kids left anything out! LINK - Granite State of Mind [That 1992 VT flood was wild. Still pictures taken as the water receded make it look like normal overflow flooding. But, until they managed to break up the ice jams that were damming up the works, the water was actually moving at a good clip because the river was diverted from its normal path and ran down the main street. It followed the path of least resistance and got back on track at the first low point about 1/2 mi away. When they were finally able to break up the two big jams, the water receded as quickly as it had come and left just a big (freezing!) mess and lots of flooded basements behind. It was devastating but, in hindsight, it was amazing how quickly everything got back to normal without much outside intervention. I was part of senior mgmt in a large (unaffected) company in Montpelier at the time. We all stopped what we were doing and gathered for meetings immediately to begin planning for the downtown cleanup & recovery efforts. We pooled any & all employee volunteers and resources that we could send down to help the other businesses and merchants. For weeks, volunteers were outfitted with rain gear, buckets and mops and sent downtown for a few hrs everyday. In the immediate aftermath, dozens of folks took armfuls of clothes from the clothing stores back to their homes and washed and returned them so that they wouldn't be ruined and the merchants could at least donate or 'fire sale' them. People rallied, donated time & money to the businesses, merchants and restaurants, and the downtown area came back better than ever.]