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Water Forces Road to Buckle in Hillsboro, New Hampshire

A road in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, collapsed on Sunday, July 16, amid flash flood warnings, video shows.

Video filmed by local resident Isaac Bailey on Sunday shows the moment rushing water forced the blacktop on Hillsboro’s East Washington Road to buckle and split.

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation closed all lanes of East Washington between Center Road and Robbins Road.

Heavy rainfall and “considerable flash flooding” were warned for areas in New York and New England, including New Hampshire, on Sunday. Credit: Isaac Bailey via Storyful

Video transcript

- [CHATTER]

- Here it goes. Bye.

- Look, there it goes!

- Oh, yeah.

- Woo!

- Lookit. Here goes the blacktop, [INAUDIBLE]

- Yeah, the water's coming up.

- Hey!

[BARKING]

- Right now video taping.

- There goes the blacktop more and more. They just fixed it. They just put in a [? glass ?] [? pipe. ?] If they would have did it right the first time, [INAUDIBLE].

- I think they should just [? build-- ?]

- They paved this road [INAUDIBLE].

- That's twice in two weeks.

[BARKING]

- There's a huge crack right there.

- They should have put a [INAUDIBLE].

- [INAUDIBLE] realized like [INAUDIBLE].

- Yeah, but look, [INAUDIBLE]

[CHATTER]

- [INAUDIBLE]. There is none.

[CHATTER]

- Bye, see you later.

- Oh.

- Oh, no, now, the water's rising. Great.

- Oh, oh, oh. There it goes.

- Oh, ho, look at that.

- Bye.

- Oh, yes.

[CROWD EXCLAIMING]

- Oh, that's so sad.

- Bye.

- There it goes, bye-bye road.

- Oh!

- Yo. [LAUGHS] Yeah, I was looking. Yes, I did. Look at that.

[LAUGHTER]

[BARKING & WHINING]

- [INAUDIBLE] grocery shopping tonight.

- Listen to my dog. He's like, no!

[BARKING]

- Crazy.

[CHATTER]

- [INAUDIBLE] [? on ?] the road.