Pictures from Alstead: Bridge- This bridge is right downtown. 1- It is not at the junction of 12A and 123- that sign got washed a few miles- yes, miles- downstream. 2,3- The upstream and downstream railings. The water was so high that the debris damaged the upstream rails, washed ofer them and piled up against the downstream rails. In 3 you can also see where the approach on the town side was washed away. 4 and 5 are a house/store that's missing a corner and a stairway. Camper- This was fished out by a tow truck. EOC- The Emergency Operations Center, or fire station. We slept in one of the garage bays the night we got there. Shots up and down the road show how crowded a small town can get when every state agency is involved in something. Gas- It's not a bridge that's out, it's a gas station that's out. That sign for 123A across the river shows where the road used to be. What's wrong with this picture is that the bridge over the river is 100 yards or so farther up the road. The river in the foreground is new. It wasn't there a few days earlier. 3 shows the underground tanks where there used to be a gas station. It looks like there's a little more MBTE in our groundwater than there was last week. Road- Walking up the road from our school, it's hard to grasp what the water did. Where the road still exists, it's scary. In other places it's down to the bedrock and there's no clue there used to be a road. The house in 3 and 5 still has its porch furniture out. The upstream wall is gone, but there's still furniture in the exposed room. 12 and 13 show a ridge in the bedrock that protected the house. School- we stayed in the gym. It had a really old wood floor that creaked unbelievably, and the locker rooms didn't have showers. Better than a garage bay in a fire station that's being used as a command center, though. Sign- The town's ballfields are being cleared out. They're also Susing them to dump cars that they fish out of the river with tow trucks.