Eight of New Hampshire's ten counties have seen flooding as rain continues to fall across the state.
Monday Governor John Lynch toured some of the damage and met with local officials and displaced residents.
New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein has more.
85 year old Hooksett resident Lea Tinault spent Sunday night the Southern New Hampshire University gymnasium.
About 40 other people joined her at the makeshift Manchester-area shelter.
Sitting in a wheelchair, the elderly widow says family couldn't help her.
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I have relatives in Bow, but she's flooded out. I have a son in Chester, he's flooded out. I've got a son in Florida so he's no help. So I am alone right now.
:39 I can tell you across NH there are 600 roads which have been closed. Many of which have been damaged.
Governor John Lynch.
...Hundreds of people have been evacuated. 34 shelters have been set up. Activated 400 members of the national guard. 200 have been deployed.
Climatologists say the storm has broken numerous records for the amount of rainfall in a three day period.
Communities from Rochester to Nashua to Goffstown ordered mandatory evacuations in the worst hit neighborhoods.
Lynch, who toured parts of Goffstown and Hooksett Sunday and early Monday morning, reported severe damage: homes off their foundations, and businesses flooded out.
In Manchester, the city evacuated 125 people.
The Merrimack River is eroding the brick walkways along the bank in the mill yard.
And Mayor Frank Guinta says the river has risen 14 ft.
:40...the Merrimack is at 20 ft. we weren't sure if this was going to be the cresting point. We feel fairly confident it will crest by 8 tonight...we certainly are pleased with the cooperation we've had from the state...we think by week's end we should return to some level of normalcy.
For Goffstown resident Tom Hanley and his family, it will take more than a dry spell to straighten things out.
Sunday he watched debris float down the Piscataquog right in front of his living room.
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1:48 there was propane tanks, picnic tables, boats, canoes started first, guy up the river lost his dock and pontoon boat.
Hanley and his wife left for a hotel Sunday night, with the river five inches from their house.
When they returned Monday, Hanley says the river had stopped short of him home.
But he says his son's family, who lives just upriver, wasn't so lucky.
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1:26 the car is still up there, it's under water. And then his mother in law lives right there, they've got two cars, they are lower than us, so they have seen a lot of damage.
The rain is expected to continue throughout the week.
Governor Lynch says that means it's too early know the full extend of the damage.
But he says it will certainly be expensive.
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8:45 we first have to get a damage assessment and come to a quantitative assessment of what the total damage is. Which I believe will be in the tens of millions of dollars across the state.
The state has already applied for federal emergency aid.
Later this week Lynch and legislative leaders are expected to sit down and discuss state funding sources to help repair the flood damage.
Lawmakers have just been putting the final touches on a multi-million dollar aid package to victims of last October's floods in the southwestern part of the state.
There is talk of adding money to that bill to help pay for this latest round of flooding.
For NHPR News, I'm DG.
