The closure followed a powerful band of thunderstorms that rumbled through Wednesday at the tail end of a heat wave.
Underneath the road, NECN and NBC10 Boston’s news camera glimpsed a failed culvert a state transportation official said dates to roughly 1975. Water connecting to Lake Champlain flows through that culvert. Wednesday’s wild weather uprooted trees across southern New Hampshire.
Lachappelle and her friend learned the detour created by that partially collapsed culvert would add more than an hour to their drive.
“If you have business through here, if you have family, you can’t get through,” Lachappelle lamented. “That’s going to hurt you, because you want to make sure they’re safe, too. So it’s going to be a major, major bummer.”