As water recedes, cleanup begins across Northeast
As the flood waters receded, weary residents across the Northeast began pulling soggy furniture and ruined possessions onto their front lawns as they surveyed the damage wrought by Hurricane Irene.
The mess of destroyed furniture on Paul Postma's front lawn looked like a yard sale gone wrong. Over the weekend, Postma had watched as more than two feet of rain filled the bottom level of his home in Lincoln Park, N.J. On Wednesday, he was using bleach to wipe down the house's mud-soaked walls.
"None of this has value," he said. "At least not anymore."
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Posted September 1, 2011 at 6:30 am
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Big prayers for all—not easy in Jersey, for one—the Passaic River always floods at the drop of a hat, let alone a rainfall/storm like this.
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