The sounds of generators filled the air in many neighborhoods, as residents worked to remove water from their basements. Parking lots at several businesses briefly became lakes in Leominster and North Attleborough, and many front yards were still partially covered in water. Firefighters used inflatable boats to rescue more than two dozen people stranded in cars. In Providence, Rhode Island, downpours flooded a parking lot and parts of a shopping mall. The rain created several sinkholes in Leominster, Massachusetts, including one at a dealership where several cars were swallowed up. “I have no physical attachment to the house, so if it goes, it goes and that’s what God wants, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t and that’s awesome,” Brown said. While he built a “blockade” of cement bags, he said there wasn’t much he could do if more rain came. He remembers his frantic efforts to survive the floods, including rushing to shut down the power, knocking on roommates’ and tenants’ doors and telling them to leave. “It’s raining really hard again so we have to make sure the pumps are working.”Įlsewhere in the state, Leominster resident Zac Brown was still cleaning up his home and backyard Wednesday after flood waters from a nearby stream flooded his basement, washed away part of his retaining walls and dumped rocks, boulders and other debris in his backyard. “I am hanging on, hoping and watching the forecast and looking for hot spots where it may rain and where there are breaks,” he said. He has been able to get the power back on in the first and second floor of the home he shares with his wife and three children, but he worried about more flooding. Heavy rains had turned his swimming pool into a mud pit and filled his basement with 3 feet (91 centimeters) of water.
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