Northeast Flood Woes

A home in the Ashaway section of Hokinton, R.I. sits surrounded by the Pawcatuck River on Thursday, April 1, 2010. The red outbuildings on the left were originally in front and to the right of the house until the river moved them.

A Canada Goose makes the most of a flooded parking lot to take a bath, Thursday, April 1, 2010, in North Andover, Mass. Rivers across Massachusetts are cresting after the historic rain storm this week, but are expected to remain in flood stage for several more days.

Cassandra Giusti, of Cranston, R.I., surveys the water that surrounds her parents' home in Cranston, R.I., Thursday, April 1, 2010.

Water swirls down a drain in the West Davisville Industrial Park in North Kingstown, R.I. Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Unofficial measurements put the 36 hour rain total over nine inches in North Kingstown.

Flood waters surround the Warwick Mall in Warwick, R.I., Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Rhode Island rivers overflowed their banks, causing flooding and road closures after three days of record breaking rains.

AP Photo/Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Mark C. Ide

Mail carrier Paul Breault delivers mail to resident Tricia Lewis, right,Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in Worcester, Mass., as water rushes down the front steps of the home.

A car plows through a section of flooded road on Route 102 in Raymond, N.H., Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Flooding on a scale rarely seen in New England forced hundreds of residents from their homes Wednesday, overwhelmed sewage systems and snarled traffic as major East Coast routes washed out or transformed into a soaked labyrinth of detours and closures.

Members of the Exeter, R.I., fire department stand watch over a washed out section of Rhode Island State Route 102 in Exeter, on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Rhode Island is seeing its worst flooding in more than a century. Travel from Maine to Connecticut is a mess after high waters washed out roads and bridges. Amtrak has suspended service in parts of the region because tracks are flooded.

Photos: Water Woes

Ed Dickinson sits in his living room amid items salvaged from his flooded basement, in Raymond, N.H., Wednesday, March 31, 2010. As three days of record-breaking rains tapered to a drizzle, forecasters warned the worst of widespread flooding from Maine to Connecticut was still ahead as rivers and streams had yet to crest, for the second time in a month.

Cars sit submerged in the parking lot outside the Warwick Mall on Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in Warwick, R.I. The mall is adjacent to the Pawtuxet River, which crested earlier in the day after heavy rainfall.

Lt. Brian Poland, of the East Providence, R.I., fire department, carries Phyllis Rego to dry land while helping rescue her from a flooded neighborhood in East Providence, Tuesday, March 30, 2010.

AP Photo/The Standard Times, Peter Pereira

A swan makes its way to the back yard of on of the flooded homes on Staples Shore Road in Lakeville, Mass., March 30, 2010, after heavy rains swept through the area flooding most of the properties.

This photo released by the Connecticut Department of Transportation shows where water washed out a 36-foot-long, two-lane bridge on Route 184 over Whitford's Brook at the Groton-Stonington, Conn., town line as a result of the heavy rain and flooding Tuesday, March 30, 2010.

Biba Lelin walks toward his home along a flooded Fayette Ave., Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in Wayne, N.J. A second major storm in less than a month has hit the East Coast causing widespread flooding.

Waves pound the coast along Wells Beach, breaking over the seawall as a car passes by during a severe storm in Wells, Maine, on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. The slow-moving storm churned across the state Tuesday, prompting the National Weather Service to issue flood warnings. Beach erosion and minor coastal flooding along the southern coast was brought on by an extreme high tide and storm surge.

Surfers Mike DiCarlo, left, and Brian Gill, right, both of Brigantine, N.J., prepare to enter large surf churned up by the second major storm to hit the Northeast this month, near Rhode Island Avenue, Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in Atlantic City, N.J.

A duck swims by a submerged vehicle on what is usually a dry Bronx River Parkway in Yonkers, N.Y., Tuesday, March 30, 2010. According to a police spokesman, Yonkers and Westchester County police rescued a man in his 70s after he went around barricades and submerged his car in the water under the Palmer Road overpass. The driver's head was sticking out a window when police arrived and pulled him from the vehicle.

The Hartford skyline is seen from flooded banks across the Connecticut River in East Hartford, Conn., Tuesday, March 30, 2010.

A paddle surfer loses his balance and falls into the ocean while taking advantage of heavy surf along Kennebunk Beach, in Kennebunk, Maine, on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. The slow-moving storm churned across the state Tuesday, prompting the National Weather Service to issue flood warnings. Beach erosion and minor coastal flooding along the southern coast was brought on by an extreme high tide and storm surge.

Nick Macaluso, 18, fills sandbags to place in the doorway of his grandmother's house Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in Little Falls, N.J., as a second major storm in less than a month continued to drench the East Coast.

A couple walks past a manhole bubbling over with rainwater in Central Park, Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in New York. A second major storm in less than a month continues to drench the East Coast as forecasters predicted "dangerous flooding."

Debris from cleanup of the last storm sits in a flooded area of Hobson Avenue near the Passaic River, Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in Wayne, N.J., as a second major storm in less than a month continued to drench the East Coast.

Fog mutes the top of the Empire State Building as a pedestrian covers with an umbrella during showers from a severe weather blanket in New York, Tuesday, March 30, 2010.