Thousands of homes and businesses remain without power after Monday's storm.
Crews have been coming in from out of state to help out, but utilities are saying it could take several days to get everyone back online. Hundreds of roads across New Hampshire were closed due to flood damage and state and local workers have been struggling round the clock to repair washed out roads and bridges.
We'll have a report from Epsom in a minute.
But NHPR's Josh Rogers files this report on his visit to parts of Goffstown where Governor John Lynch was assessing the flood damage.
People with homes along the Piscataquog river in Goffstown are accustomed to spring floods……Most years, the river climbs its banks, spills across lawns and fills a few basements……The last two springs, though, have been a bit more dramatic…….Families have been evacuated by boat, and homes -- some of which have sat empty since last year's floods -- are again filled with water to the second floor.
"It's just surreal -- within eleven months…..You know it's like this is not happening again…but like I said at least my living space is elevated, but I know whatever is in the basement I'm sure is floating around."
That's Judy Puglisi talking with Governor Lynch, who visited her neighborhood this morning….Lynch gave Puglisi a out card with his personal phone number and promised to do what he could….. For most of 2006, Puglisi, her husband and daughter stayed in a trailer as their house was rehabbed and its foundation lifted 8 feet.….Puglisi says their life wasn't easy , but she adds that she and her family have no plans to move to higher ground.
"My husband is born and raised here. I've been here for 7 years. We love it when it’s nice it's nice, but this past year it been a little different, but we're survivors."
Some of Puglisi's neighbors weren't so sure.
"I don't know what's going to happen, cause I'm so far in debt from last year. I've tapped out.
That's Nancy Congdon, of 7 Sunny Avenue….. Congdon says she's spend countless hours dealing with her insurers and fema to get whatever help she could……She says her flood coverage didn't come close to making her whole, and that her FEMA aid totaled six hundred dollars.…..Congdon says no one in neighborhood expected another flood to happen again so soon.
"You don’t expect a 100 year flood. 11 months and two days from last year……..You don't expect it. None of us did. We were all in denial."
Several hundred yards down the road, a man in neoprene waders stood in the rain as debris floated by. Mark Payne, a local carpenter, was looking at water swirl half way up the new first floor garage he put in after last years floods.
"It's cost me abut 114, 000 dollars to get it where I'm at right now. My insurance company gave me 54,000 so far. We put in a supplemental claim with which we've had no success with the insurance company, so now we've had …..We had to hire an attorney to seek after the money from the insurance company."
Payne says the garage contained mostly tools, and a Harley Davidson motorcycle he spent the winter rebuilding. He adds he'll try to sell his house, if he can find any takers. In the meantime, the Goffstown neighborhood remains underwater. Authorities say the river is receding quickly, but they have no timetable for when residents can return. Governor Lynch says the state will do all it can to complete the damage assessments to help towns and residents get possible federal aid.
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