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Page down to see flood pictures of the Warren Brook segment from junction of 123 and 12A to just before Kmiec's corner.

This taken from a point just upstream from the junction of 123 and 12A. You can see Joe Grysko's house on the left, and the Wheeler house on the right.

From the bottom left, looking upstream: the bridge with the roof lodged against, and directly to the right is the oblong footprint of Bill Seale's house. That intersection is the corner of 123 (the straightaway) and 12A (which forks to the right). My folks parked on 12A Sunday afternoon when they went down to see the damage. The river is supposed to run under the bridge where that white room is lodged, in the lower left of the picture.

The bridge with the roof, and the cellar hole of the Seale house.

Possibly what's left of Bill Seale's house

What's left of Freddie Carmen's garage, just below our old house.

Same area, 180 degrees in the other direction, looking downstream. From top to bottom: Canfield's, a speck of the roof of our old house, Fred Carmen's garage, Helen Bascom's, and the bridge with a roof lodged against it. You can see the rest area across the road from our house over there to the left of the road... with a pine tree still standing in it.

The rest area across the river and the road from our old house. The roof of the house is hidden in the trees over there on the left. You can actually see this area in the prior photo.

Fred Carmen's garage. Well, what's left, anyway.

That's our old house over there on the right in the trees behind the gray garage.

Slightly different perspective (although not much).

You can see Helen Bascom's house near the center of this frame. The flat bit just before her house goes to Fred Carmen's garage. The embankment on the left leads up to our old house. 

This taken just a bit downstream from that last shot, but looking upstream. While the water was still raging.

That's our old house over there on the right, across the river.

Same spot, further downstream, looking at the Gendron house.

Canfield's (now Gendron's). You can barely see the roof of the house we used to live in over there in the woods across the river. There's a speck of gray there that I can barely make out. The house wasn't touched. That I know of.

Here's the Bates/Gendron lot.

These cars washed out of the Bates/Gendron lot and ended up in the house below them. 

Looking upstream to the Bates/Gendron (Canfield) lot.

Here's what comes next, looking downstream at Sweeney's and the (absent) Bellows house and property:

More Rt 123.

Down around the Canfield/Sweeney/Kmiec stretch, I believe. If someone knows differently, let me know.

This photo was taken on Rt 123 between Kmiec's and the glass shop across the street:

This photo's of where Turner Bellows' house used to be... somewhere around that white rock. Everyone got out safely. Many thanks to Linda for sending this shot. (She sent others, which I'll include later when I've found more space.)

The Bellows property. Sans house.

Downstream from Canfield's garage. That's the Sweeney's house.

Looking up the hill from Kmiec's garage at Sweeney's house (toward where we Stevenses used to live:

Click here to continue on down to Kmiec's corner, and Vilas Pool and the s-curve.

-or- WHAT FOLLOWS IS THE UPSTREAM WALK SUZANNE AND I TOOK A WEEK AFTER THE FLOOD.

Debris beside the road below Sweeney's.

There's me and the yellow trucks on Route 123, Oct 16th.

It was here that Suzanne and I got out and walked. This is what Route 123 looked like on Sunday. People were milling about in this picture but few people go further than Sweeneys' house. The bright point in this picture are those yellow trucks up there. 


They're cutting trees. In this picture we're looking back down Route 123 toward the Kmiec house we saw in that last photo. The river's on the right. They're cutting trees so the telephone poles (see them with their sagging wires over there on the right) can be reset on the side of the road opposite the river. I felt so grateful for the work that was going on at noontime on Sunday.


This is a little further up and you can see how the side of the road that washed out is getting filled in already.

The road ahead was cleared of debris, except for the fresh tree cuttings.


We walked up above the Sweeney house. They were home, working around the property... you can see trucks and people up there. (Their house is not slanted, by the way... my aim is!)

This is the view of the river side by Sweeney's. I love the birdhouse.  

This one takes my breath away. There are the guys with their chainsaws. They started cutting before Suzanne and I got up to that point. 

There's Suzanne on Oct 16th looking up the river toward Canfields.

These are the guys who were cutting down trees. They carried their chainsaws up the ledge. This is Route 123 between Sweeneys and Canfields, looking upstream.

These were the tree cutters Suzanne and I followed up Route 123 on Oct 16th. 

This was the Bates-Gendron car lot (Canfield's old place) last Sunday, Oct 16th. Suzanne and I were so impressed by how good the place looked after just one week. 

There are a lot of pictures on my mom's camera which I don't have yet, so this picture jumps ahead, past Gendrons/Canfields where there was a behive of activity. Gendron's car lot looked fantastic on Sunday, by the way. They've been putting in some long hours there, it's quite obvious. And, you can see by the photo below that there's been significant headway made on the road in front of our old house. Check out this new road. On Sunday it was still about 4 feet below the old roadway, but what the heck. What they've created is currently usable. This is a great road!


This shows the house where I grew up, up there on the bank on the left.

My folks sold this house to Brian Green a few years ago. Since the flood, the embankment has eroded so much that the integrity of the bank and the house now compromised. I heard Brian took the state buyout and this house will be razed.

This is the same road, looking back toward Gendron's.

That dirt road there on the left leads to our old house. Look at the all trucks and machinery. There's a lot of work going on. 

Telephone poles (I believe) laying on the side of the road here. Over there on the right is Helen Bascom's house, still standing. She slept through the flood and was awakened by neighbors checking on her welfare.  =) Some stories are good to hear.

We walked up Route 12A. Machinery everywhere we looked. And lots of people working... it is an amazing thing to see.

Didn't I tell you I had pictures of trucks? Because I couldn't see whether they had anything in them, I asked one of the drivers if they were "bringing or removing". His answer? "The good Lord taketh away. And we bringeth back!" These lined Route 12A, bringing gravel down to Route 123. These are the monsters rattling past my folks' kitchen window all day long. 

Look at 'em! Wow.

Click here to continue on down to Kmiec's corner, and Vilas Pool and the s-curve.