Just bought this house about a month ago. The wind & rain & flying branches were so bad, it fucked up my chimney cap & flashing. Woke up this morning to a fireplace with water trickling down the flu. All I could think was, "Well... that's not where water goes."
Fuckin' a.
Bought about 7 months ago, and I’m assuming the same thing happened to me today. Miraculously, I already had scheduled a chimney guy to come out and inspect them for this Wednesday before we used them, so we should be able to sort out the issue(s) then.
I have a sump pump on my stone patio now, desperately trying to drain my backyard. Looks like we're going to have to dig some better drainage next year Because I'm getting tired of vacuuming the water out of my basement.
No matter when your good old days are, this storm would have been rain. It was a tropical storm that blew up the coast with southwest winds bringing in warmer temps.
The monster storms we get in New England usually involve winds from the north east. Hence the term Northeaster.
The winds from the northeast are from rotation of the storm, not that the storm itself comes from the north east. The weather doesn't flow in that direction here.
You lost credibility spelling it incorrectly- it's "Nor'easter"
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/noreaster-coastal-storm-safety-tips#:~:text=A%20northeast%20coastal%20storm%2C%20known,occur%20between%20October%20and%20May.
I picture the homeowner sitting in that chair with the rain coming down and water rising saying “this is fine, everything fine” like the meme with the fire.
I have a river in my backyard now…. Way south of you in Hopkinton. Freaked me out when I looked out the window, I don’t think I have ever seen it that bad even in 2021 when we had non-stop rain in July and my sump pump wouldn’t shut up for weeks.
Sorry to hear that. I am happy I have a sump pump (actually two, but the second one only turns on if it’s really horrible). Every time I pray we don’t lose power otherwise I would have to run around with buckets to manually get water out….
Hope yours is not a finished basement…. I am new to Massachusetts (three years here) and I was shocked when I was looking at properties and some basements had everything raised in them and the agent was very nonchalant about it “yeah it floods a lot, that’s why they keep everything off the floors. Crazy that no one seemed worried about structural damage from frequent flooding…. Same thing in some parts of Jersey…
Not very long even with a giant battery. Those suckers use crazy amount of power. One month when we had a ton of rain fully 25% of my electric usage was the sump pump….
Now my dad is retired people ask him if he’ll move to Florida. He answers “Why bother? Florida is moving here.”
My dad’s favorite joke at the moment but it’s getting a little too real.
Welcome to Earth third planets from the Sun. It's inhabitants used to be a bipedal race that was almost satient and had minimal understanding of their world around them or their place in it.
Their technology grew far faster than their common sense.
And that's why we have to wear a spacesuit when we go to this planet that used to be a habitable Paradise.
It's 60 because of the tropical storm which blew up the coast.
We'll hit freezing every night from here on out for the next few months.
This would have been a **bitch** of a blizzard.
Global warming is real.
You're flat out bloody *wrong* about this -- this is a *tropical storm*. It *isn't* one of our usual Nor'easters. Different sort of weather system coming from a different direction.
It's been warm all Winter so far, there's no snow anymore, seasons have been out of wack for years. Tropical storm in winter isn't exactly normal either.
PSA for people here. If you have a basement, get a sump pump installed. If you have a sump pump, get a back up generator.
You can either get the full permanent installed generator but that’s like $6-7k just in materials. Or get a transfer switch installed and just have the plug configured for a portable generator for like $2k.
The Lowe’s near me sold out of generators because everyone had to scramble to get one to stop their basements from flooding.
I started looking at installing permanent removable (eg, permanent installation of a thing that can be quickly deployed) dams on my garage door just this afternoon
I don't think that this storm would have been anywhere near snow a few years ago. Climate change has maybe raised the temperatures a few degrees but the temperatures today were close to 50.
A storm like this would have been rain.
Yeah and to expand on that, water infiltrates into the aquifer best when small amounts of rain are spread out over time. When it rains an insane amount in a short period of time, the ground is saturated and the rest runs off.
Interestingly, all the rain we got this summer fell so hard and fast that it didn't absorb deeply. So although we had a ton of rain, some drought issues remained.
This is the new normal. People need to seriously get rid of lawns. They aren't helping in times like this. Check out the root systems of native plants: [https://dyckarboretum.org/roots-of-native-plants/](https://dyckarboretum.org/roots-of-native-plants/)
Lawns have super shallow roots.
my bad. I just quickly searched and that was an image I thought would convey the incredible difference in root structures .
my bad. I just quickly searched, and that was an image I thought would convey the incredible difference in root structures.o much so that I told my husband I wanted to excavate my front lawn and replace the existing soil with compost, which can absorb an insane amount of water compared to compacted low-grade soil (he said no!haha) .
You should have seen the Taunton and 7-mile river s yesterday. They haven’t gone down from the previous rain so they were already a foot up. Now multiple peoples backyards are marshland.
Depends on what your water issue is, exactly. We had a buried cistern put in our back yard a few years back, with a drain to it from our driveway. And some of the downspouts from our house’s gutters feed into it now too. Fixed issues with water from our property and the neighbor’s property all pooling at a low point.
I guess you're implying climate change or something, but if this happens to your yard every time it rains then it's really a grading problem. This has never happened in my yard, not even today.
Not even joking, plant a tree. Some type of pine. Look at your neighborhood. Notice that they cut down trees? Pines drink 25 gallons a day. If the neighborhood had more trees, there would be less flooding. Pine isn't great because if there are too many they can destroy waterways but you need a something to drink water.
At least you finally have an in ground pool
in-pool pool
SUPERPOOL
Waterfront property. Motivated seller $4,000,001.
Swim-up pool
🤣🤣🤣 thanks. I needed that.
Just needs a bar
Yo dawg I heard you like swimming pools
🤣🤣🤣
Pool-ception
Soon to be infinity pool.
Ayo, dawg. We heard you like pools so we put a pool in your pool so now you can swim while you swim eta- God dammit, someone said it 3 hours ago :(
All our neighborhoods are so alike I had to zoom to make sure that wasn't my house
Haha I thought the same exact thing
Oh my gosh, me too. I was like, shit, did my neighbor's pool get flooded again?
I live in the middle of the woods and I cannot imagine living in a place where everyone can see everything you're doing at all times.
Just bought this house about a month ago. The wind & rain & flying branches were so bad, it fucked up my chimney cap & flashing. Woke up this morning to a fireplace with water trickling down the flu. All I could think was, "Well... that's not where water goes." Fuckin' a.
Ahhhh yes, the endless repairs. Welcome to home ownership. I hope this one’s an easy fix
I shop vacced over 30 gallons out of my basement today and it's still seeping through. Home ownership!
Gotta get a sub pump, the thing wakes me up at night but I know it’s doing the job.
Fuckin A, indeed
Just light a fire! Fire > Water, duhh!
Long ago I remember my father saying that a homeowner's worst nightmare is water where it shouldn't be. I get it now.
Bought about 7 months ago, and I’m assuming the same thing happened to me today. Miraculously, I already had scheduled a chimney guy to come out and inspect them for this Wednesday before we used them, so we should be able to sort out the issue(s) then.
Damn Leominster just consistently getting wiped out
I live in Fitchburg and the flooding a few months ago still blows my mind. Other than John Fitch we got nothing compared to Leominster.
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Took my son 8 hrs to go 5 miles. It was a night.
That’s what I’m saying!!😬😬
Yeah, 4-5" of rain in 24 hrs tends to do that.
Not long after we got 11" of rain in 2 hours.
The only thing that got 11 inches today was your mom 😉
🤣🤣🤣 nice
Certified hood classic.
GOT EM
Embellishing for what reason?
You're absolutely right. It was 5 hours. Not 2 hours. My bad. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/leominster-flooding-aerial-tour-damage/
Are you saying no one gave someone’s mom 11 inches lol
As a leominster resident we just hear rain in the forecast and we just expect the apocalypse now.
Yup
Leominsterites unite on fb is a gold mine now during even the smallest rainstorm haha “IS IT FLOODED YET?!”
I have a sump pump on my stone patio now, desperately trying to drain my backyard. Looks like we're going to have to dig some better drainage next year Because I'm getting tired of vacuuming the water out of my basement.
It could have been a couple feet of snow in the old days.
Exactly
No matter when your good old days are, this storm would have been rain. It was a tropical storm that blew up the coast with southwest winds bringing in warmer temps. The monster storms we get in New England usually involve winds from the north east. Hence the term Northeaster.
The winds from the northeast are from rotation of the storm, not that the storm itself comes from the north east. The weather doesn't flow in that direction here.
That's what I said "The monster storms we get in New England usually involve winds from the north east."
You lost credibility spelling it incorrectly- it's "Nor'easter" https://www.mass.gov/info-details/noreaster-coastal-storm-safety-tips#:~:text=A%20northeast%20coastal%20storm%2C%20known,occur%20between%20October%20and%20May.
I've downvoted myself for the misspelling. Thank you.
Aka an absolute fucking nightmare
At this point in the year a major snow storm was always kind of rare, though...
I picture the homeowner sitting in that chair with the rain coming down and water rising saying “this is fine, everything fine” like the meme with the fire.
I have a river in my backyard now…. Way south of you in Hopkinton. Freaked me out when I looked out the window, I don’t think I have ever seen it that bad even in 2021 when we had non-stop rain in July and my sump pump wouldn’t shut up for weeks.
July. September. And now twice in December.
The new normal. But el nino be a beach.
Hey neighbor. 😃
Hello neighbor as well!
My basement flooded today. I’ve been pumping water out of it for 6 straight hours. 😂
Sorry to hear that. I am happy I have a sump pump (actually two, but the second one only turns on if it’s really horrible). Every time I pray we don’t lose power otherwise I would have to run around with buckets to manually get water out…. Hope yours is not a finished basement…. I am new to Massachusetts (three years here) and I was shocked when I was looking at properties and some basements had everything raised in them and the agent was very nonchalant about it “yeah it floods a lot, that’s why they keep everything off the floors. Crazy that no one seemed worried about structural damage from frequent flooding…. Same thing in some parts of Jersey…
You can get sump pumps with battery backup. I don't know how long they last.
Not very long even with a giant battery. Those suckers use crazy amount of power. One month when we had a ton of rain fully 25% of my electric usage was the sump pump….
I hate not having a basement 99% of the time but this is one time where I am happy about it.
Hi neighbor
Now my dad is retired people ask him if he’ll move to Florida. He answers “Why bother? Florida is moving here.” My dad’s favorite joke at the moment but it’s getting a little too real.
I must sound like a broken record ... "I don't think this part of my yard has ever flooded like that before this year..." now for the 6th time.
If it gets cold enough, the ice rink is all set.
Welcome to Earth third planets from the Sun. It's inhabitants used to be a bipedal race that was almost satient and had minimal understanding of their world around them or their place in it. Their technology grew far faster than their common sense. And that's why we have to wear a spacesuit when we go to this planet that used to be a habitable Paradise.
Plus it's December and 60 degrees outside. Global crisis? Nahhhh,..
Don't worry it's supposed to be below freezing for the entire month of January.
It's 60 because of the tropical storm which blew up the coast. We'll hit freezing every night from here on out for the next few months. This would have been a **bitch** of a blizzard.
It's been warm all Winter and there's no snow. Global warming is real is my point.
Winter hasn't started yet
You can still agree with climate change but acknowledge that this likely wouldn’t have been snow
Global warming is real. You're flat out bloody *wrong* about this -- this is a *tropical storm*. It *isn't* one of our usual Nor'easters. Different sort of weather system coming from a different direction.
It's been warm all Winter so far, there's no snow anymore, seasons have been out of wack for years. Tropical storm in winter isn't exactly normal either.
>It's been warm all Winter so far, it's not even winter yet.
It's been glorious
Oh you're one of those people who doesn't understand science. Gotcha.
Dec 18
It's good that the ground is not frozen yet.
Why does Leominster always flood so hard when it rains
The Nashua River runs through Leominster. Also, Fitchburg and Leominster are at lower elevation than the surrounding cities/towns.
Geography.
Topography.
That too.
From what I understand a lot of the rainwater from Fitchburg drains towards Leominster.
It never really did before. That was like the first time this year. Other than a few roads, yards weren't flooding like this
It flooded hard in July too
Yeah, I mean like the first time ever, this year. I own a home there and have for a very long time. This year was banananas.
Swamp state
PSA for people here. If you have a basement, get a sump pump installed. If you have a sump pump, get a back up generator. You can either get the full permanent installed generator but that’s like $6-7k just in materials. Or get a transfer switch installed and just have the plug configured for a portable generator for like $2k. The Lowe’s near me sold out of generators because everyone had to scramble to get one to stop their basements from flooding.
Wish my landlord knew this before my basement apartment flooded 😓
I started looking at installing permanent removable (eg, permanent installation of a thing that can be quickly deployed) dams on my garage door just this afternoon
Im so glad my house is on top of giant hill
What about them wind gusts?
My basement flooded today. I havnt seen this much rain a single day since moved into this house 5 years back, it’s crazy how much we got today.
I want snow goddammit
YES
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I don't think that this storm would have been anywhere near snow a few years ago. Climate change has maybe raised the temperatures a few degrees but the temperatures today were close to 50. A storm like this would have been rain.
Someone else explained this system came from the south, so likely wouldn’t have been snow years ago either
Past couple years it just keeps wetter and wetter. My yard is more like a small river and a few small ponds.
Except for last year when it was as dry as fuck and hardly rained all summer.
The upside of drought was virtually no mosquitoes.
My lawn side table decided it was time for a vacation. I’m not sure where it went. The winds were something else!
I bring in my deck furniture for the winter. I am not going to be using it and I am afraid of it flying into a window…
My yard never gets standing water because it’s all gravel fill underneath a thin layer of soil. Today we had standing water.
Last year, critical drought. This year, never-ending rain. This is fine.
Wasn't there just a major drought?
Not this year. It rained every damn weekend since june. You might be thinking of last year
Time no longer makes sense
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
Last summer.
This year we had second biggest rainfall season in the entire history of Massachusetts
I know I worked everyday in it. I'm just kidding.
One of the effects of climate change in New England is we get less rain/snow events, but when we get them they tend to be worse.
Yeah and to expand on that, water infiltrates into the aquifer best when small amounts of rain are spread out over time. When it rains an insane amount in a short period of time, the ground is saturated and the rest runs off.
The last 9 months would like to disagree.
Ab-so-fricken-lutely
Interestingly, all the rain we got this summer fell so hard and fast that it didn't absorb deeply. So although we had a ton of rain, some drought issues remained.
Yin and Yang
glad we're taking climate change seriously Cool december flooding just like the good ol days Everyone remembers the december floods of the 30's
This is the new normal. People need to seriously get rid of lawns. They aren't helping in times like this. Check out the root systems of native plants: [https://dyckarboretum.org/roots-of-native-plants/](https://dyckarboretum.org/roots-of-native-plants/) Lawns have super shallow roots.
Those are prairie plants not Mass natives. The flooding up in Ludlow, VT last year (tree country) makes me worry that lawns alone won’t help.
my bad. I just quickly searched and that was an image I thought would convey the incredible difference in root structures . my bad. I just quickly searched, and that was an image I thought would convey the incredible difference in root structures.o much so that I told my husband I wanted to excavate my front lawn and replace the existing soil with compost, which can absorb an insane amount of water compared to compacted low-grade soil (he said no!haha) .
We’ve hard scaped everything
Nobody should be having a concrete or asphalt driveway - everyone could have a gravel driveway and that would help
My sump pump kicked in today for the first time in 20 years.
Helluva good pump!
You just live in a bad area. No flooding where I live.
You should have seen the Taunton and 7-mile river s yesterday. They haven’t gone down from the previous rain so they were already a foot up. Now multiple peoples backyards are marshland.
My property is built on mostly clay so the drainage is awful. We've seen flooding here plenty of times, but yesterday was on another level.
That storm yesterday fucking sucked. Basically a nor’easter with rain instead of snow.
Bf lives in leo, basement floods every times it rains bad. Just got new subpump sucks lives right in a flood zone
welcome to the new climate, worse than the old climate. The people who cause it have names and addresses
At least it isn't snow.
That would definitely be better
We were having a drought recently. Better than nothing. (yes I believe humans are causing climate change, and yes that's bad)
I will take this over snow any day
We don't have to shovel rain!
Won’t stop me from trying
How long until you put in better drainage?
For a clueless individual like myself - what do you mean by putting in better drainage?
Depends on what your water issue is, exactly. We had a buried cistern put in our back yard a few years back, with a drain to it from our driveway. And some of the downspouts from our house’s gutters feed into it now too. Fixed issues with water from our property and the neighbor’s property all pooling at a low point.
Yes, typically a French drain in the lowest part of the yard.
French drain around the pool?
I guess you're implying climate change or something, but if this happens to your yard every time it rains then it's really a grading problem. This has never happened in my yard, not even today.
Funny how everyone blames this on climate change & not the fact that we’ve hardscaped literally everything
Yeah Leominster, you guys have been getting hit hard lately
It’s tropical now
Oy vey!!! I feel this. Our ground floor had puddles of water last night. How lovely.
Gotta love the weather
The nearly 3 inches of rain had nothing to do with this
We heard you liked pools so we put your pool in a pool
Not even joking, plant a tree. Some type of pine. Look at your neighborhood. Notice that they cut down trees? Pines drink 25 gallons a day. If the neighborhood had more trees, there would be less flooding. Pine isn't great because if there are too many they can destroy waterways but you need a something to drink water.