Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Mandatory Flood Evacuation, New Hampshire Style

For all the Live Free or Die bravado, New Hampshire surely takes the concept of "mandatory" quite seriously.

After the recent storms and rain had knocked out power and flooded roads in much of Southern New Hampshire, mandatory evacuations were ordered in a few towns. In Goffstown that meant that law enforcement officials went door to door and arrested anyone who wouldn't evacuate. Now that would be mandatory...



Perhaps Florida, Louisiana and a few other flood prone states could learn a little something from New Hampshire....

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