By the numbers: Details on the areas hardest hit by the New England floods of 2010
By APWednesday, March 31, 2010
By the numbers: The New England rainstorm
Some numbers from the states hardest hit by the rainstorm and flooding of March 29-31:
CONNECTICUT:
Highest rainfall total: 8.4 inches in Deep River.
Evacuations: Scattered local evacuations, none state-ordered.
Power outages: None significant.
Hardest hit: Middlesex and New London counties in southeastern Connecticut.
MAINE
Highest rainfall total: 5.76 inches in Wells and Fryeburg.
Evacuations: No evacuations, no shelters.
Power outages: None significant.
Hardest hit: Southwestern and coastal areas, including largest city, Portland.
MASSACHUSETTS:
Highest rainfall total: 7.25 inches in Dighton.
Evacuations: About 1,000, not including those who went to homes of friends; 400 in shelters.
Power outages: None significant.
Hardest hit: Southeast, near Rhode Island. Entire eastern half of state affected, including the Boston area.
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
Highest rainfall total: 5.58 inches in Atkinson.
Evacuations: About 100.
Power outages: None significant.
Hardest hit: Southern part of state, including one of largest cities, Nashua.
RHODE ISLAND
Highest rainfall total: 9.97 inches in South Kingstown
Evacuations: Several hundred in Cranston, Warwick; state operating 10 shelters.
Power Outages: 6,200 at noon Wednesday, down from 14,000.
Hardest hit: Along the Pawtuxet River in Cranston, Warwick and West Warwick.
Sources: National Weather Service, state emergency management agencies
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