Northeast Flooding

A military truck from the Cedar Bridge Military Academy drives in floodwater as service members check for stranded residents in the Island neighborhood of Trenton, N.J., Thursday, June 29, 2006. Heavy rains brought flooding to large swaths of the Northeast, and were blamed for at least 12 deaths while forcing thousands to evacuate.

Forty Fort, Pa., left, is protected by a levee system as the Susquehanna River overflows its banks Wednesday, June 28, 2006. Heavy rains brought flooding to large swaths of the Northeast, and were blamed for at least 12 deaths while forcing thousands to evacuate.

The Delaware River overflows its banks, Wednesday, June 28, 2006, in Easton, Pa. The city of Easton is on the left, Phillipsburg, N.J., is on the right. Heavy rains brought flooding to large swaths of the Northeast, and were blamed for at least 12 deaths while forcing thousands to evacuate.

Evacuees rest at the Red Cross shelter in the G.A.R. High School in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Wednesday, June 28, 2006. Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area were ordered to leave their homes because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, while communities farther downstream and along the Delaware River also braced for major flooding.

Small planes are clustered together after being towed to the only remaining dry land at Bloomsburg Airport, as floodwaters from the Susquehanna River continued to encroach on the airstrip, Wednesday, June 28, 2006, in Bloomsburg, Pa.

Firefighters rescue children trapped by floodwaters in the Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis Center in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 28, 2006. Heavy rains brought flooding to large swaths of the Northeast, and were blamed for at least 12 deaths while forcing thousands to evacuate.

As water rises above the banks of the Schuylkill River, Water Department workers Charles Hall, center, Stan Robinson, left, and Kevin Bess, second left, remove submerged sand bags to reuse and protect a fire house in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 28, 2006. Heavy rain caused flooding throughout the eastern and central parts of Pennsylvania.

Comcast's fleet of vehicles sit in rising flood waters from the nearby Schuylkill River Wednesday, June 28, 2006 in Reading Pa. Heavy rains brought flooding to eastern and central Pennsylvania, forcing thousands to evacuate and damaging businesses and homes as officials braced for the possibility that rivers would overflow.

U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist technician Tom Hunt prepares to drop a sensor into the Schuylkill River to gauge the speed, velocity and depth of the rising flood waters in Reading, Pa., Wednesday, June, 28, 2006. Heavy rains brought flooding to eastern and central Pennsylvania, forcing thousands to evacuate due to fear rivers would jump their banks.

Residents look over the rising waters of the Schuylkill River in Reading, Pa., Wednesday June, 28, 2006. Heavy rains brought flooding to eastern and central Pennsylvania, forcing thousands to evacuate in fear that rivers will overflow.

Unidentified people comfort each other near the site of the search for two missing teenagers, Wednesday, June 28, 2006, in Keymar, Md. Rescue personnel searched for the two youths, ages 14 and 15, who were reported missing near a swollen creek at Keymar, said state police 1st Sgt. Russell Newell.

George Claypoole, right, and his daughter Lisa, 16, inspect trash and debris that was swept down the rain-swollen Schuylkill River and deposited in front of the Water Works in Philadelphia, Tuesday, June 27, 2006.

Bystanders wade through floodwaters to assist a stranded motorist, Tuesday, June 27, 2006, following days of heavy rains in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Firefighters from Bloomsburg push a stranded car onto Route 11 from the entrance of a restaurant in Bloomsburg, Pa., Tuesday, June 27, 2006. The firefighters were called to the restaurant for a pick-up stranded in the water on the other side of the lot.

William Rock collects fish that are still alive in front of his house in Marshalls Creek, Pa., Tuesday, June 27, 2006, after a pond behind his house spilled over after several days of heavy rain.

Bailey Davis, 9, watches high water rush by in Abraham's Creek in West Wyoming, Pa., on Tuesday, June 27, 2006.

Two unidentified residents who live along the Delaware River in the Hutchinson section of Harmony Township, N.J. carry items to safety as the river floods, Tuesday, June 27, 2006.

Residents Gary Kauth, left, and his wife, Rosemary, use a canoe to leave their home along the Delaware River in the Hutchinson section of Harmony Township, N.J., Tuesday, June 27, 2006.

Marion rescue workers Todd Sites, left, John Kennedy and Denny Carr, right, attempt to guide a 1,200-pound hog to higher ground at Greener Pastures No Kill Animal Rescue in Marion, Pa., Monday, June 26, 2006. Animals at the sanctuary were moved to higher ground as the water continued to rise. Rains further saturated already soggy ground.

Marion Volunteer Firefighter Denny Carr, right, watches as Greener Pastures No Kill Animal Rescue volunteers Chris Farley, from left, Tim Shoemaker and Danny Snyder rescue a horse from rising flood waters in Marion, Pa., Monday, June 26, 2006. Animals at the sanctuary were moved to higher ground as the water continued to rise.