BANGOR (AP) — City public safety officials in Bangor, Maine, have closed a plaza due to potential flooding concerns. People have been advised Thursday morning to move their vehicles from both the east and west side of the Kenduskeag Plaza in downtown Bangor as soon as possible. In addition, the National Weather Service said the […]
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Pond association asks to drop Hogan Pond water level
OXFORD — A local pond association is requesting that the town significantly lower the water level in Hogan and Whitney ponds to combat an especially virulent milfoil infestation. Eurasian milfoil is a non-native underwater plant, considered one of the most problematic aquatic invasives in the United States. The plant grows rapidly in huge clumps at the surface […]
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Colorado mountain towns reopening as cleanup effort begins
Earlier coverage: Mainers describe wet chaos in Colorado ESTES PARK, Colo. — As Colorado mountain towns cut off for days by massive flooding slowly reopened, shopkeepers in this gateway to majestic Rocky Mountain National Park worked to both clean up and remove salvageable goods from ravaged businesses for fear the swollen Big Thompson River would rise […]
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Stern warning to residents of flooded Colorado towns: Leave now or be prepared for hardship
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — As rescuers broke through to flood-ravaged Colorado towns, they issued a stern warning Saturday to anyone thinking of staying behind: Leave now or be prepared to endure weeks without electricity, running water and basic supplies. National Guard helicopters and truck convoys carried the admonition into paralyzed canyon communities where thousands of […]
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Mainers describe wet chaos in Colorado
Shared video Video taken inside a Longmont Fire Department truck on Friday. Sasha Barajas used to live in Auburn. She knows what the Androscoggin River looks like after a heavy rain. On Thursday night, when the creek in front of her house in Boulder started to look like that, she knew it was time to get […]
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Maine women make their way off Colorado mountain
UPDATE: The National Park Service says a pair of Maine hikers made it down one of Colorado’s highest peaks on their own after being stranded by an ice storm for two days. The news came just as the Park Service was organizing its latest effort to rescue the women from 14,200-foot Longs Peak in Rocky […]