March's Flooding in New England is a mammary, I mean memory
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March's Flooding in New England is a mammary, I mean memory
It's been 90 or better including some 100 + for weeks up heeya.
We had some flooding back in March with all that crazy rain we had.
I took pix of broken bridge in Wayland Mass when the Sudbury River was high.
I took a few there today and it looks quite different.
Back in the 80s the bridge wasn't blocked yet.
We drove my friend's Dodge Dart out on it and fished & toked while cranking Led Zep.
Looking at it today, I can't believe that sucker held up under a Dodge
Bridge Closed - No ****
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We had some flooding back in March with all that crazy rain we had.
I took pix of broken bridge in Wayland Mass when the Sudbury River was high.
I took a few there today and it looks quite different.
Back in the 80s the bridge wasn't blocked yet.
We drove my friend's Dodge Dart out on it and fished & toked while cranking Led Zep.
Looking at it today, I can't believe that sucker held up under a Dodge
Bridge Closed - No ****
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On a side note -
This bridge has one of the Knox Trail Markers
Read about the heroic march with fifty-nine captured artillery pieces, in the dead of winter, from Fort Ticonderoga in upstate NY to Washington's army outside Boston here and here
Here's the wikipedia page
Tough as nails
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This bridge has one of the Knox Trail Markers
Read about the heroic march with fifty-nine captured artillery pieces, in the dead of winter, from Fort Ticonderoga in upstate NY to Washington's army outside Boston here and here
Here's the wikipedia page
Tough as nails
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On a side note -
This bridge has one of the Knox Trail Markers
Read about the heroic march with fifty-nine captured artillery pieces, in the dead of winter, from Fort Ticonderoga in upstate NY to Washington's army outside Boston here and here
Here's the wikipedia page
Tough as nails
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This bridge has one of the Knox Trail Markers
Read about the heroic march with fifty-nine captured artillery pieces, in the dead of winter, from Fort Ticonderoga in upstate NY to Washington's army outside Boston here and here
Here's the wikipedia page
Tough as nails
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Who lost how many cannons in what lake?
Here's what Wikipedia says:
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They included forty-three heavy brass and iron cannons, six cohorns, eight mortars, and two howitzers.
Knox, using sledges pulled by teams of oxen to haul these cannons, many weighing over a ton, crossed an icy Lake George in mid-winter.
He proceeded to travel through rural New York and Massachusetts, finally arriving to the aid of the beleaguered Continental Army in January 1776.
Knox, using sledges pulled by teams of oxen to haul these cannons, many weighing over a ton, crossed an icy Lake George in mid-winter.
He proceeded to travel through rural New York and Massachusetts, finally arriving to the aid of the beleaguered Continental Army in January 1776.
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I can't remember but I do believe that those cannon were salvaged from ?Lake Champlain? before being used. As an act of defiance the British Commander tossed them over the ramparts before Ethan Allen could get them to surrender.
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