Posted on 10/15/2005 6:35:12 AM PDT by xcamel
SPRING LAKE, New Jersey (AP) -- Jack O'Connor stepped into a rescuer's rowboat after more than a week of steady rain across the Northeast sent water sloshing into the streets of this seaside town.
"All the years I've lived in Spring Lake," said the 84-year-old O'Connor, "I've never been in a boat until now."
Toilets backed up with sewage, military trucks plowed through headlight-high water to rescue people, and swans glided down the streets as rain soaked the region for an eighth straight day Friday.
Some spots have had more than a foot of rain since October 7, and more rain was expected in some places Saturday.
Across the Northeast, at least 10 people have died because of the downpours since last weekend, and four others remain missing in New Hampshire.
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I'm one of those who's also on the hoping end of things, here in NH.
I live on Long Island and work in the NY-NJ metro area and I can't recall nor can I find anyone who recalls this much rain. The rain fell hard and CONTINUOSLY for four days.
I did one job out of a possible eight on monday and haven't even bothered to roll my truck since. I hope to heck the water drains fast.
My basement was caught without a bathing suit.
That's a keeper.
Here in NW NJ we've received over 14" of rain in the past 8 days. Luckily we are high & dry.
LMAO! Watching the clip last night on Brit Hume, my husband asked if they were Republicans. These guys had to be to show up the MSM like this.
Looks allot like the AlGore trick of raising the CT river for his photo-op back in 1996
Dang. We were going to have a friend deepen the brook through a swampy area, to help drain the water away from our back driveway, but he was missing a part on his grapple, and had to put it off. Now it's so wet the whole tractor would sink into the abyss if he tried it.
We only just finished replacing the foundations under a barn that was tipping over into the mud. Now comes the acid test. Will the new curtain drains work?
It's not NOLA in Vermont, but it's getting pretty wet.
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