More Pictures: Flooding And Sandy Storm Damage

Stephen Dunn, Hartford Courant

Workmen do some last-minute boarding up at a home in New London as waves already breach the seawall.

JOHN WOIKE | THE HARTFORD COURANT

Anthony Vitelli, left, and Michael Flanagan discuss how high the water rose during Tropical Storm Irene a year ago compared to the level on Warren Road in Milford Monday afternoon. Vitelli, who has an oceanfront home that was destroyed by Irene and is the process of having a new house built, says he is very concerned about where the water will go Monday night when high tide hits again.

STEPHEN DUNN, Hartford Courant

The owner of the Floor Craze floor covering business on Route 146 in Guilford left a message in his window for storm Sandy. Last year his business had 9 inches of water in the building from flooding.

CLOE POISSON|cpoisson@courant.com

The parking lot at Harvey's Beach in Old Saybrook is under water as Hurricane Sandy intensifies.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

The winds really picked up around 5 p.m. as Steve Gregory of Milford tries to catch his balance as Hurricane Sandy slammed into Connecticut Monday.

Brad Horrigan, Hartford Courant

The Gioffres board up their windows at Chalker Beach Saturday.

STEPHEN DUNN, Hartford Courant

An old tree fell on Pequot Avenue on the banks of the wind-blown Thames River, taking power lines down with it.

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

Waves crash into a seawall near Cornfield Point in Old Saybrook as Hurricane Sandy bears down on Connecticut.

Patrick Raycraft, The Hartford Courant

On Silver Sands State Park Beach, Milford firefighters monitor the offshore search for a missing kayaker on Sunday morning. One kayaker was rescued and treated for hypothermia. The second kayaker was last seen going under water, according to authorities at the scene.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

Brad Horrigan, Hartford Courant

With Sandy approaching, homes at Chalker Beach are boarded up Saturday.

JOHN WOIKE | THE HARTFORD COURANT

Oceanfront homes on Bayview Beach in Milford are boarded up as Hurricane Sandy hits the Connecticut coast Monday afternoon.

Alaine Griffin, Hartford Courant

Patrick Raycraft, Hartford Courant

Cosey Beach-East Haven resident Jay Dobbins takes a few last pictures before evacuating Monday morning.

George Barone, CNN

Residents of Clinton prepare for another major storm a year after being hit by Irene.

Mark Mirko, Hartford Courant

A car parked at Wesleyan University in Middletown bore the brunt of Sandy's wind gusts, which snapped a tree at its trunk.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

A man tried to get across Buckingham Avenue in Milford but the water proved to be too deep, and he stalled out mid-stream.

Brad Horrigan, Hartford Courant

Inside the Southlands' Old Saybrook summer home at Chalker Beach Saturday.

MICHAEL McANDREWS, Hartford Courant

Drivers mostly heeded warnings to stay off the streets, like Market Street in Hartford.

Mark Mirko, Hartford Courant

"I've never seen it this choppy," said Dean Cantwell of Middletown looking out over the Connecticut River while on a walk with his three Siberian Huskies at Middletown's River Front Park area.

Brad Horrigan, Hartford Courant

With Sandy approaching, Luke Gioffre, 13, right, spray paints a message to the storm on the boarded up windows of his family's Old Saybrook summer home at Chalker Beach Saturday.

Brad Horrigan, Hartford Courant

With Sandy approaching, homeowners and contractors board up windows on Salt Island Road in Westbrook Saturday afternoon.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

Bob Post and his daughter Lauren wade down Bayshore Drive in Milford to assess the damage as Hurricane Sandy slammed into Connecticut Monday, hitting the shoreline with a tremendous storm surge that flooded many low-lying roads.

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Bob Post and his daughter Lauren walk along Bayshore Road in Milford as Hurricane Sandy's storm surge floods the coastline.

MICHAEL McANDREWS, Hartford Courant

Jen Trinks and Elaine Ariola walk Hawk's Nest Beach before the two evacuate Trink's home. Ariola came to help Trinks pack her car under a mandatory evacuation order from Old Lyme Police.

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

Brian Blank and his son Peter Blank, 14, place boards across a stairway that leads down to Knollwood Beach in Old Saybrook just minutes after a powerful wave ripped the bottom portion of the stairway and smashed it to pieces on the rocks at the peak of high tide Monday morning, as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the shoreline. Blank wanted to prevent someone from falling off the stairway.

CLOE POISSON|cpoisson@courant.com

A car slows to turn around instead of trying to navigate a flooded section of Great Hammock Road in Old Saybrook during Hurricane Sandy Monday.

MICHAEL McANDREWS, Hartford Courant

Hank DeMazza of Old Lyme couldn't take the chance of having no electricity because his oxygen machine can't run without it. He and 28 others have taken shelter at the East Lyme Middle School regional shelter run by the Red Cross. Hank and his wife moved into the shelter Sunday. The shelter accepts evacuees from the towns of New London, East Lyme, Old Lyme, Lyme and Waterford.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

A car pushes on through floodwaters on Warren Road in Milford Monday afternoon as low tide hits the coast.

Stephen Dunn, Hartford Courant

Tita Williams gets a close look at crashing waves near Ocean Beach.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

Members of the Milford Fire Department make a pass through the Bayshore View Beach area in Milford to see if anyone needs to be evacuated during a lull in Hurricane Sandy as she slammed into Connecticut.

Brad Horrigan, Hartford Courant

With Hurricane Sandy approaching, homeowners and contractors board up windows on Salt Island Road in Westbrook Saturday afternoon.

Alaine Griffin, Hartford Courant

Police hit the beach in Fairfield on Monday as conditions rapidly deteriorate.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

Victor Lamberti reinforces the deck to his oceanfront home on Warren Road in Milford Monday during a lull in Hurricane Sandy. The home has been in his family since 1943. He says he and his wife will stay until about 9 p.m., and if the second storm surge at high tide is worse than this afternoon's they will leave.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

Aryn Wadadli and his daughter Sabine, 6, of Milford donned ski goggles to protect their eyes while feeling the impact of Hurricane Sandy as she slammed into Connecticut Monday.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

Bob Post and his daughter Lauren check out the heavy storm surge hitting Bayview Beach in Milford from a friend's oceanfront home Monday afternoon.

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

Priscilla Dorothy, 11, feels the wind and spray from Hurricane Sandy as the storm approaches Monday morning at Saybrook Point in Old Saybrook.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

Gulf Beach in Milford

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

Carmine Iacobucci finishes packing some belongings into his car as he leaves his Chalker Beach home in Old Saybrook Monday morning. He rented a room at the Days Inn because it affords him a view of his house across a marsh so he can watch it as Hurricane Sandy intensifies. He paid a little extra to bring his dog Mia to the hotel. "I think it's going to be gone," he said about his house.

STEPHEN DUNN, Hartford Courant

The boats that remained in the water at Burr's Yacht Haven strained against their lines as the tide and waves increased Monday afternoon. Most boats had been pulled out of the water.

JOHN WOIKE | THE HARTFORD COURANT

A resident who decided to stay in her home peeks out a third-floor window as flood waters cover Bayshore Road in Milford Monday afternoon.

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

The emergency shelter at Old Saybrook High School was hosting 223 people by Monday evening.

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

A mandatory evacuation sign on Route 1 warns Old Saybrook residents who live south of Route 1 to seek higher ground.

Patrick Raycraft, Hartford Courant

It is a challenge to fuel up with at least one Fairfield Mobil running out of gas by noon Sunday.

Patrick Raycraft, The Hartford Courant

At a press conference at Penfield Pavilion, Fairfield Beach Road resident Ariane McMahan says she plans to evacuate her home with her three children Monday morning and stay with friends in town who live on higher ground.

Matthew Sturdevant @SturdevantNews

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

Lisa Mazzotta wades through rising water on Nehantic Trail in the Indiantown Beach section of Old Saybrook back to her car after returning to her beachfront home to unplug her TVs. She and her family are staying at a hotel to ride out the storm. "Last year our house got ruined," she said, referring to Irene's damage. "I think this will be much worse," she said.

Stephen Dunn, Hartford Courant

Nancy Grant and George Vinick run from a huge wave that crashes into Grant's home on Mott Avenue.

Christine Dempsey, Hartford Courant

A tree fell on this garage on the town green in Tolland.

Brad Horrigan, Hartford Courant

With Sandy approaching, the Southlands and friends apply plastic over the windows of their Old Saybrook summer home at Chalker Beach Saturday.

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

Senior citizens were among the early arrivals at a shelter set up at Old Saybrook High School Sunday evening.

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

From left, Bill, Samantha and Tammy Kenefick hang on to the railing to keep from being blown over while checking out the wild waves at Knollwood Beach in Old Saybrook Monday afternoon as Hurricane Sandy makes her presence felt.

Peter Marteka | Hartford Courant

The Connecticut River getting angrier in Middletown

Patrick Raycraft, The Hartford Courant

"I think we're going to go. We stayed last time," says Cathleen O'Boyle as she is issued a mandatory evacuation notice from Southport firefighter Dan Torska on Eunice Avenue in Fairfield Sunday afternoon. O'Boyle has four children and, like many other residents of the Fairfield Beach Road area, she plans to stay with friends who live on higher ground.

Brad Horrigan, Hartford Courant

With Sandy approaching, homes at Chalker Beach are boarded up Saturday.

Patrick Raycraft, The Hartford Courant

Dorothea Brennan takes her dog Splash for a walk along Fairfield Beach Road in Fairfield before evacuating her home Sunday afternoon, prior to the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

Paul Druva, of Old Saybrook, braces himself against the wind as he turns to leave the sea wall at Knollwood Beach after taking some video of Hurricane Sandy Monday afternoon.

Stephen Dunn, Hartford Courant

Katie Milligan walks toward the home she is living in on Pequot Avenue, which is surrounded by water at the mouth of the Thames River. Although water was lapping at the walls, she was planning on staying put.

Matthew Sturdevant @SturdevantNews

John Woike, Hartford Courant

A driver gets help after his car stalled as he tried to cross a flooded road at Gulf Beach in Milford as Hurricane Sandy slammed into Connecticut.

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

Hurricane Sandy churns up Long Island Sound at Knollwood Beach in Old Saybrook Monday afternoon.

Patrick Raycraft, Hartford Courant

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

A pot of mums floats down Mohican Trail near Indiantown Beach, Old Saybrook.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

A car pushes on through flood waters on Warren Road in Milford Monday afternoon as Hurricane Sandy slams the state.

Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant

A large maple tree came down on Old Boston Post Road in Old Saybrook during Hurricane Sandy.

William Leukhardt, The Hartford Courant

Flooding at 2 p.m. the Monday of the storm on Route 136 in Norwalk. A two-block stretch at the West Main Street intersection had about 2 feet of water, and the water continued to rise. Big box trucks could drive through, but passenger cars were turning around.

JOHN WOIKE | THE HARTFORD COURANT

Bob Post and his daughter Lauren check out the heavy storm surge hitting Bayview Beach in Milford from a friend's oceanfront home Monday afternoon.

Mark Mirko, Hartford Courant

Her life on pause, Connie Niglio sits on a cot in the Middletown High School gym that has been set up by Middletown Health to provide shelter for up to 200 people.

Brad Horrigan, Hartford Courant

With Hurricane Sandy approaching, home owners and contractors board up windows on Salt Island Road in Westbrook Saturday afternoon.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

Andrew Skoronski and his fiancé Rachel Russell brave themselves as the wind whips across a jetty at Gulf Beach in Milford Monday evening. Skoronski was going to try a little surf casting going his efforts fruitless.

MICHAEL McANDREWS, Hartford Courant

Christine Dagata straps in her daughter Riley, 2, before leaving their Old Lyme home Sunday under a mandatory evacuation order for areas likely to flood in Old Lyme. They were going to stay with relatives.