NORTHBRIDGE, Mass. — Northbridge residents are waiting for the floodwaters to recede after the Blackstone River crested its banks. Water from the swollen river left properties and cars waterlogged in the Riverdale neighborhood on Thursday.
Northbridge Fire Chief David White told Boston 25 News he believed the river reached its highest point around 3 p.m. at 10.43 feet.
Neighbors whose homes were on the edge of the floodwaters remained worried about the threat of flooding through the evening.
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“If it reaches my apartment, I’ve got to vacate,” said Rhonda Jorritsma. “I live on disability. Where am I going to go? I have no place to go.”
Some people spent all day Thursday pumping out as much water as they could to try to keep the water from reaching their basements.
“You got people whose cars are flooded. You got people whose livelihoods are on the line, and it’s really hard for people,” said Connor King.
The water reached portions of Providence Road and Church Street Extension, but neither roadway was closed to traffic. Local officials blamed the flooding from the rising river on the excessive rainfall that’s fallen across the area over the last few months.
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