Cochecho river flooding in Dover

Some of you might know that there's been some flooding in New Hampshire, where I live -- a lot of communities are being evacuated, as rivers and streams reach flood levels. Luckily for us, we live up on a hill, so we're not being directly affected, but roads all around us are closed due to the flooding.

I took a walk with the kids around the downtown Dover area, to get some pictures of the flooding in our area -- it's nothing too bad, although a lot of businesses are being adversely affected, and I gather there are homes in the more rural areas that are completely wrecked. Newmarket, which is south of us, has been evacuated for the most part (it's faily low-lying) and Rochester (north of us) and Portsmouth (also south) are also in a bad way. It's no New Orleans, but for New Hampshire, not cool.

Here's a slideshow of the pictures I took. (Clicking on the images will bring up a description.)

Edit: here's what the Cochecho usually looks like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cochecoriver/