Our correspondent Marty Rosen took these photos yesterday in flood-ravaged Schoharie.
SCHOHARIE, NY - Shaun Bevins shows the water level from Sunday's flood. The top of the hydrant marked the flood level from the previous flood in 1996.
Residents here were permitted to inspect their homes for 15 minutes Tuesday. They returned today to a village left without electric, phones or water. Village officials said there are multiple underground water main breaks.
"If I had a pressure washer I could clean this stuff off, said Joe Bevins, Shaun's father.
SCHOHARIE, NY - Doreen Pricolo surveys the wreckage at The Hair Shoppe, her business of 29 years.
"My husband works two jobs now to survive. I don't know what I'm going to do. I got nothing. That was it."
She salvaged a coin-filled coffee mug and a photograph of her son's Little League team.
SCHOHARIE, NY - This Bridge Street home was destroyed by fire at the height of the flooding Sunday.
Route 30, which links Middleburgh to the county seat of Schoharie, is littered with flood debris: An overturned Price Chopper semi in a flattened cornfield, a U-Haul dangling from a shattered guard rail, barns tossed from stone foundations and swept 100 yards downstream.
