Dave Pullo crosses Oak Street with a shovel Saturday to clear a sewer drain to help drain floodwater that extended down Drummond Avenue to High Street in Waterville.
Mike Palmer, owner of Ace Tire and Service, wades through floodwater Saturday to clear a sewer drain in the back lot of his business in Waterville.
A man stands on Saturday at High Street in Waterville, where gates block off Drummond Avenue because of floodwater that extended to Oak Street.
ACE Tire and Service on Drummond Avenue is flooded by rainwater and snowmelt Saturday as warm temperature and heavy rain roll through the Waterville area.
A backhoe moves through floodwater Saturday along Drummond Avenue in Waterville as the driver tries to clear debris causing a flood from High Street to Oak Street.
A driver removes a piece of debris that stuck to the undercarriage of his truck when he drove through floodwater Saturday on Oak Street in Waterville.
Dave Pullo, of Boston, clears a drain Saturday on Oak Street in Waterville to help drain floodwater that extended down Drummond Avenue to High Street.
A car moves through shallow floodwater Saturday on Oak Street in Waterville.
The Kennebec River overflows its banks around 1:15 p.m. Saturday into the Front Street parking lot in Augusta.
Chunks of ice pile up around 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Bond Brook just above the Mount Vernon Avenue bridge in Augusta.
Cars splash through a large puddle caused by an overflowing storm drain Saturday morning on Second Street in Hallowell.
A car stands abandoned Saturday in the middle of flooded Prairie Road in Unity after the road was blocked to traffic. Water from Sandy and Fifteen Mile streams flooded the road after heavy rain on Friday and Saturday.
Pamela Dean tries to move her car, which was stuck in place briefly, possibly because the wheels had become frozen after moving through standing water, as Unity firefighter Larry Curtis helps her Saturday afternoon at the end of her flooded driveway in Unity. Dean earlier drove her car away from the home as rising water from Sandy Stream, 300 yards away covered her driveway and nearly entered her home. She said she walked back to the home but called the Fire Department as water inside it rose to her knees. Firefighters arrived and rescued her from the house by using a canoe. "I sat in the canoe as a firefighter paddled and two others pulled the canoe to the road," Dean said. She said the water still was rising and she left her two cats with plenty of food and water and will stay with a friend until the water recedes. "In the last three weeks I ran out of heating oil, my battery went dead and now this," Dean said. "I may sell my home as waterfront property and move to Florida," she joked. She added that she is grateful for the help of firefighters. "They were wonderful," she said.
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