Tri-State Flooding

Traffic drives through large pools of rain water on Friday, Oct. 14, 2005, in New York as rain continued to fall for an eighth day. The National Weather Service is continuing its flood watch throughout the New York City metro area, with flood warnings in selected areas.

Pedestrians walk through large pools of rain water on Friday, Oct. 14, 2005, in New York. The rain was expected to continue through Saturday.

Pedestrians are seen crossing Broadway through a rain-soaked windshield in New York's Times Square, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005. A storm dropped more than 4 inches of rain in Central Park between midnight and 9 p.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. An additional 3 to 5 inches could fall in the next few days, with more in some areas, the weather service said.

A taxi cab kicks up a water fan as it speeds down Broadway through a huge puddle along New York's Times Square, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005 in New York. After seven days of rain, the city was inching toward a new record rainfall.

People stand on the beach at Robert Moses State Park in Babylon, N.Y., Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005. Days of heavy rain in the area have led to beach erosion.

Police use boats to evacuate residents from their homes in Wayne, N.J., Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005. A seventh straight day of rain across much of the soggy Northeast trapped motorists in their cars, delayed airline flights and sent streams surging over their banks Thursday.

Mykhayco Nikolin, left, and Oleksandr Katerynyuk, ride their bikes along Fairfield Road in Wayne, N.J., Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005, after the Passaic River flowed out of its banks. With floodwaters rising in northern New Jersey, the state activated its emergency management office Thursday morning, preparing high-water rescue vehicle and swift-boat rescue teams for use in flooded communities.

Daniel McDonnell, accompanied by his dog Betsy, paddles his canoe down a street in Oakland, N.J., on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005, after carrying out his family's garbage from their home. The northern section of the state got more than 5 inches of rain over the past two days, with an additional 2 inches expected in some places.

A view of a flooded neighborhood near the Passaic River in Fairfield, N.J., Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005. With flood waters rising in northern New Jersey, the state activated its emergency management office, preparing high-water rescue vehicle and swift-boat rescue teams for use in flooded communities.

Holly Young wades to drier land on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005, as she leaves her waterlogged Wayne, N.J., home. Residents in some New Jersey communities were urged to evacuate their homes.

Residents wade through a flooded street to check on their homes on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005, in the Hoffman Grove section of Wayne, N.J. Flood warnings covered parts of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey and residents in some communities were urged to evacuate their homes.

Water rushes over the spill-wall from the Byram River at the Mill in the Glenville section of Greenwich, Conn., Thursday Oct. 13, 2005. Between 4 inches and 12 inches of rain fell on Connecticut over the past week, with 3 or more inches predicted in coming days.

Floodwaters from the Raritan River cover Old York Road near Branchburg, N.J., Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005. New Jersey got between 1 and 4.5 inches of rain over the last 48 hours, with the heaviest amount falling in the northern part of the state.

Dominique Facin walks with two umbrellas while attempting to stay dry on Predem Road in Bristol, Conn., during a rain shower Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005.

Pedro Cartagena, right, from Hartford, Conn., and Tom Vieszczad, from Wethersfield, Conn., work to repair a floating dock at the Harbor Park restaurant in Middletown, Conn., Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005, where the rising Connecticut river pushed the dock off its pilings.

Rising Connecticut river waters flood Route 17A, in front of the Portland Fairgrounds, in Portland, Conn. Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005.

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