MAMARONECK, N.Y. – As the floodwaters receded Tuesday homeowners picked through ruined belongings and priceless keepsakes trying to determine what they’d lost.
More than a quarter-million customers were without power Tuesday afternoon in North Carolina, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Vermont. A spokeswoman for Central Vermont Public Service warned that some homes could be in the dark through Saturday.
About 1,000 residents of Bound Brook, N.J. – which received 9 inches of rain – were still barred from their homes as flooding persisted from the spring nor’easter that has claimed at least 17 lives.
In Mamaroneck, described by Gov. Eliot Spitzer as the “the epicenter of the damage done here in the state,” discarded belongings damaged by the flooded Sheldrake River lined an avenue.
Trash in the middle-class neighborhood included refrigerators, stoves, mattresses, dressers, a karaoke machine, even a 30-gallon aquarium somehow ruined by water.
An upright piano, its veneer peeling, made only off-key noises when its warped keys were pounded.
“I’ve been collecting this stuff since I was 14,” said Robert Jackson, 39, a disc jockey, as he poked through his trove of old record albums, including some 78 rpm platters and many disco-era albums. Like his deejay equipment, the records had been submerged when the water reached 5 feet high in his basement.
A separate set of storms brought tornadoes, heavy rains and hail near Lubbock, Texas. No injuries and only minor damage were reported from the tornadoes that developed in the early afternoon, the National Weather Service said.
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