The Red Cross is running a shelter at Southern New Hampshire University for dozens of people who had to evacuate because of flooding.
NHPR Correspondent Debra Daigle stopped by there earlier today and files this report.
Dozens of evacuees are setting up home for a few days at the Manchester college's gymnasium, which the school has turned over to the Red Cross.
Emergency services director Dan Pike says they're currently housing about forty people, and that number is expected to rise as the Merrimack River rises and crests later on:
"This has become a regional shelter for Hooksett, Manchester, Goffstown, Londonderry and Derry. So we're expecting an influx of more families throughout the day and possibly into this evening."
Esther Lachappelle says she was shocked when a fire department official knocked at the door of her Hooksett apartment.
"He said, you have an hour to take a change of clothing and all your medications, and the bus will be around to pick you up. That's the first I knew of it."
But, she says, she's grateful for her accommodations at the shelter.
For NHPR News, I'm Debra Daigle in Manchester.
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