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He’s pumping water out of a flooded basement into a barrel using the sump pump so it can be used to flush toilets. The basement in our old house in Connecticut flooded in March after torrential rains, but we only…

“We are seeing a historic hydrological event taking place with unprecedented river levels occurring,” said Brian Pierce, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Davenport. “We’re in uncharted territory — this is an event beyond what anybody could even…