9-11" of rain in 4 hours will overwhelm just about any drainage system. Plus, in Leominster, a lot of damage was caused by the streams themselves overflowing their banks
A local farm based brewery near me (Milk Room) is closing up shop. They don't have any indoor seating etc. I bet the rains this summer drove them under...
Great little place.
I’m all done with big rain for a long time.
Today I had to take a different route to work and also had to go to a different site. The road damage from last week’s flooding was pretty significant. I hadn’t seen that in person yet.