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The No Pun Intended error message of the week

By Jason Meserve on Wed, 04/18/07 - 12:35pm.
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I live near the mighty Merrimack River in New Hampshire, which is nearing or over flood stage in some places. As I was checking out the real-time flow stats for the river on the New England Corps of Engineers site, I got this rather ironic error message:

upstream error message

Guess the site must be getting a flood of traffic. (Sorry, had to say it!)

Yeah - I saw that a few

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Yeah - I saw that a few times during the overnight hours and did a double-take.

These sites are also good (from a Skywarn/NWS/ARES/Red Cross Disaster perspective)

Storm surge: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/Northeast.shtml

Higher tides:
http://tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov/

Stream levels:
http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/index.php?map_type=real&state=ma

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