From a NBC news Portland affiliate WCSH6 news report:
Residents are finally returning to a Lawrence, Massachusetts nursing home that was hastily evacuated during the record flooding last May. The rain-swollen Spicket River breached a temporary sand barrier, sending water rushing into the St. Mary Immaculate nursing home. National Guard soldiers helped build a temporary road so that frail residents, many confined to wheelchairs, could be safely evacuated. Many of the approximately 240 residents were moved to other nursing homes, some as far away as Worcester. It took about 17 weeks to complete repairs so that residents could begin moving back into the state’s third-largest nursing home this week. Officials say about 20 residents died in the intervening months. About 50 others settled elsewhere and are not returning.
