No Letup In Waterlogged NE

Drenched By Tammy Last Weekend, NH, NJ Brace For More Rain

(CBS/AP)  The search for the missing is through treacherous, torn-up and unstable terrain, reports Christina Hager of CBS station WBZ-TV.

From Friday evening through Sunday, rainstorms dumped as much as 10 inches on New England and the mid-Atlantic states. In New Hampshire, the storm dropped 10.8 inches in Hinsdale and 10.5 inches in Keene.

Gov. John Lynch said the floods were the worst the state had experienced in a quarter-century, and he sought a federal disaster declaration. Teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency were expected to arrive later this week.

"We've never seen anything like this in New Hampshire, where roads are gone and the foundations on which the roads are built are gone, and bridges destroyed," said Lynch.

Help continued pouring into the small New Hampshire towns devastated by flooding.

Coordination, though, was made more difficult because all the equipment the Alstead police department had to deal with such a disaster — a ham radio, two-way radios, emergency generators and other equipment — was destroyed when the police station flooded almost to the ceiling.

"All of our police records, computers, weapons ... everything that was in there is gone. It's destroyed," Alstead police Chief Christopher Lyon said.

Among those still missing Tuesday were Sally and Tim Canfield, whose home was washed away by floodwaters. The Canfields had twice declined to evacuate.

"It's real sad, you know, it's just ... real good people, but that's the way he was, he was a stubborn guy, and he probably didn't think anything as bad was coming as it was. Nobody did," Matt Vanalstyne told WBZ.